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Corteva, Bayer play key role in environmental solutions and Iowa's future, executives say

"We have new tools that we didn't have before to work on drought tolerance ... "To put this in perspective, India, the world’s second-largest food producer, has just half the water it will need for ag... read more

Nuclear Techniques Help Provide Zimbabwe Children with Healthy School Lunches

In spite of the lack of water and poor soil fertility ... the team recognized the need to maximize resources and ensure their efficient use through small-scale drip irrigation. The Joint Division had ... read more

Where artificial intelligence could take agriculture

The Field and Yield Prediction System is a self-learning tool ... soil and yield maps, but who’s to say a computing system couldn’t take into account different data types from different places to make ... read more

NASA soil moisture data advances global crop forecasts

The Soil Moisture Active Passive mission, or SMAP, launched in 2015 and has helped map the amount of water in soils worldwide. Now, with tools developed by a team ... "There's a lot of need for unders... read more

Digging Deep: Harnessing the Power of Soil Microbes for More Sustainable Farming

If successful, they envision being able to reduce the need for chemical fertilizers ... techniques are used to map soil electrical properties in 3-D, which greatly controls soil microbial activities. ... read more

Sculptor wants a National Civil War Memorial in Taneytown but promises, 'This is not a Confederate monument'

Casteel sought input from 30 top American historians ... of the war from 1861 to 1865 — not a day before or a day after — serving as an educational tool for generations to come, he said. “The artwork ... read more

Almond Farms Keep Growing, and Keep Moving on Water Conservation

soil moisture and plant water status. Additionally, to help farmers minimize waste and grow more crop per drop, the Almond Board has developed a free irrigation scheduling tool. Using data from their ... read more

NASA-supported tool is accelerating wildfire recovery

Assembling the spatial data needed ... tool called the Rapid Response Erosion Database. This RRED supports faster post-fire remediation by accelerating the time-sapping collection of spatial data. Wit... read more

THUNE: Local input strengthens US drought monitor

The U.S. Drought Monitor, a weekly comprehensive assessment of rainfall and soil moisture conditions throughout the country that’s used to determine when and where drought-related assistance is needed ... read more

Maine’s most famous organic gardener updates his classic book

The book’s subtitle, he pointed out, is “A Master’s Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener.” “It’s all pretty much scales and ratios,” he said. “You can do pretty much the sam... read more

S.C. farmers get new lessons in technology

When setting digging speeds, growers should keep several variables in mind, particularly soil conditions ... and the South Carolina Irrigation Scheduling Tool. Both programs use information input by u... read more

New tools improve farm nutrient and water management

EU-funded researchers have developed new mapping tools and services to help farmers ... vast amounts of water and pollutes the soil. More sustainable crop management and production methods are urgentl... read more