Riding the Wavelengths

Riding the Wavelengths

Curtin University in Perth, Australia is lighting the way to improved crop protection. The university and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (ANSTO) are working on a new imaging tool that would help scientists monitor the development of fungal...
Feed from the Sea

Feed from the Sea

The seaweed is always greener in somebody else’s feed rations. A new startup out of Sweden, Volta Greentech, is raising money ($2.07 million so far) to construct a facility that will produce seaweed with hopes to reduce methane emissions from Swedish cattle. Algae...
Mo’ Money, Mo’ Research

Mo’ Money, Mo’ Research

Money can’t buy you love, but it can buy you a stronger agricultural system, and that’s basically the same thing. Two studies, one by The Breakthrough Institute and one by the Farm Journal Foundation and American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), are speaking the same...
Prickly Pear Delight

Prickly Pear Delight

Cash crops might be getting a new family member in the coming years, and they might want to prep for the big, warm hug from cousin cacti. According to researchers at the University of Nevada, there’s a notion the low-maintenance cactus pear crop could provide fuel and...
Not Your Average Milk-Making Method

Not Your Average Milk-Making Method

Scientists in the Land Down Under may soon be putting your morning glass of milk under a lot of pressure.The rundown: Naturo, an Australia-based company, just received the go-ahead to begin processing milk using the Haelen technique–an “alternative treatment to...