Dr Christine Sprunger – Tackling Soil Health from Every Angle Soil health is fundamental to feeding the growing human population and mitigating the most damaging effects of global climate change. Despite its importance, the complex and dynamic nature of soil...
Complementing Plant Breeding Programs with Biotechnology By Dr Tom Elmo Clemente, University of Nebraska-Lincoln There are three components that impact crop harvests: the genetics of the seed sown, the environment in which the crop is grown, and the inputs employed...
Dr Keerti Rathore – Bioengineered Cotton Could Help Solve World Hunger Humans have relied on cotton’s textile fibre for nearly seven millennia. However, utilising cottonseed as food has been a long and unfulfilled goal of many plant breeders. Along with its...
Dr Victor E. Cabrera – Dairy Brain: A Step Towards Smarter Management in Dairy Farms To manage their farms effectively, dairy farmers must base their decisions on real-time and continuous data streams, which collect information about feeding, milking, and an...
Dr Mark Gleason – Intelligent Spraying: Improving Prospects for Sustainable Pesticide Use Tweet Share 0 Reddit +1 Pocket Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email VKontakte Pesticides may be essential in ensuring abundant and healthy yields of many crops, but so far, the...
Dr Lynn Brandenberger | Dr Joshua Massey – ‘Green Manure’: How Cover Crops Create Healthy Soils and Boost Crop Yields Tweet Share 0 Reddit +1 Pocket Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email VKontakte In order to meet the demands of a growing human population, farmers across...
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