Agriculture

Allowing farmers to harvest vegetation from their riparian buffers will not significantly impede the ability of those streamside tracts to protect water quality by capturing nutrients and sediment -- and

Current practices of the poultry industry have raised ethical and ecological concerns: ethical concerns include the culling of day-old male chicks of egg-laying breeds; ecological concerns include the import of

A federal loan program for women offered through Farm Credit Canada is so popular that it will spend double the amount originally budgeted. The FCC Women Entrepreneur Program was originally

Frank, alongside his son, Frankie, were busy plunge dipping sheep on the day of AgriLand’s visit, which is a job many farmers across the country will have or will

French agricultural circles fear about the officialization of the Algerian decision to import wheat from Russia and other countries of the Black Sea after France was the first exporter of

Researchers from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) developed a new mathematical model to predict economic performance of crops. It can assist the breeders to obtain the plants

Enter cover crops. Cover crops are inedible plants grown during the off-season. Their roots help keep soil in place, preventing erosion. Cover crops can even absorb excess nutrients like nitrogen

The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has issued a recall notice for cheese due to the possible presence of Listeria monocytogenes. In a recent notice, the FSAI said that

Farmers around the world are keen to protect their most important asset: their soil. The soil supports and enriches their crops. But the relatively thin layer of topsoil can readily