Agriculture
Rust never sleeps: New approach can predict outbreaks of corn disease
AgriLife team publishes findings in Scientific Reports
Online system helps veterinarians track outbreaks and symptoms
USDA provides funding to develop and launch website and app
Faster food: Medical breakthrough could improve global beef production
USDA-NIFA provides federal funding for four-year project
Calorie counts: For some consumers, labels serve as invitations to indulge
Putting calorie counts on display for consumers can have unintended consequences, new study discovers
AgriLife achieves stable transformation in industrial hemp
Farmers can look forward to a future in which their industrial hemp crops have optimal phenotypic and trait characteristics
Weed them and reap: Taking aim at cotton’s herbicide-resistant nemesis
Field study looks at a multi-tactic approach to control Palmer amaranth
Swarms of robots could produce better, cheaper food—and more of it
USDA’s robotics program provides funding for multidisciplinary project
Resisting pests: Modern corn gets boost from ancestor’s microbes
Multidisciplinary team aims to create an insect-control method that is also environmentally friendly
Think global, farm local: High tech could raise crops closer to home
Automation, artificial intelligence and robotics are changing the future of urban agriculture