Tag: US agriculture
Computer science can help farmers explore alternative crops and sustainable farming methods
Barath Raghavan, University of Southern California and Michael Kantar, University of Hawaii
Humans have physically reconfigured half of the...
Sexual violence is a pervasive threat for female farm workers –...
Kathleen Sexsmith, Penn State; Francisco Alfredo Reyes, Penn State, and Megan A. M. Griffin, Connecticut College
Television crime shows...
These four challenges will shape the next farm bill – and...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
For the 20th time since 1933, Congress is writing a multiyear farm bill that...
In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a...
Leland Glenna, Penn State
As tractors became more sophisticated over the past two decades, the big manufacturers allowed farmers...
Cotton breeders are using genetic insights to make this global crop...
Serina Taluja, Texas A&M University
Products derived from the cotton plant show up in many items that people use...
Fertilizer prices are soaring – and that’s an opportunity to promote...
Kathleen Merrigan, Arizona State University
Farmers are coping with a fertilizer crisis brought on by soaring fossil fuel prices...
Raising cattle on native grasses in the eastern U.S. benefits farmers,...
Patrick Keyser, University of Tennessee
Early on a cool June morning, heavy dew lies on the grass of rolling...
Planting mixes of flowers around farm fields helps keep bees healthy
Hamutahl Cohen, University of Florida
It’s springtime in California, and bees are emerging to feast on flowering fields –...
EXPLORING NATURE
Wildfires can contaminate drinking water systems with harmful chemicals − here’s...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have destroyed more than 10,000 structures, many...
