CURRENT HEADLINES

• Food Industries Embrace AI Sensors To Improve Efficiencies

  6/10/2026

  Food waste is a nagging problem that weighs heavily on global food growing, production, distribution and sales industries – but an emerging generation of AI sensors is providing a raft of fresh solutions.

• Researchers Develop 'All-In-One' Platform For Multiple Trait Stacking In Crops

  6/5/2026

  A major goal of modern crop breeding is to efficiently combine multiple desirable traits by "stacking" the favorable gene variants (alleles) that contribute to those traits in a single crop variety.

• Charles Sturt Connects Australian Ag Tech To India's Rapidly Expanding Market

  6/5/2026

  Charles Sturt University has deepened Australia’s agriculture ties with India through a new Australia-India AgriTech partnership, a bilateral initiative designed to accelerate digital agriculture, climate-smart farming and ag-tech innovation across both nations.

• Seeding Success: How Plants Feed The Next Generation

  6/5/2026

  Scientists from NTU and the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, have discovered seed loading: a key mechanism governing the transport of nutrients into seeds.

• African Development Bank Launches Project To Boost Agriculture In Sudan

  6/5/2026

  The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) have signed the USD 87 million Boosting Agrifood Systems Resilience in Sudan (BOOST) project, aiming to strengthen food systems and provide critical support to farmers in areas central to the country’s food supply.

• UTIA Researchers Win Grant To Improve Nitrogen Uptake In Corn Plants

  6/5/2026

  A project led by University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture researchers will help reduce the use of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer by designing corn plants that better use nitrogen already in the soil.

• 'Cautiously Optimistic': Canada's Agri-Food Sector Requires Coordinated Approach To AI

  6/5/2026

  Adopting artificial intelligence across the agri-food sector requires a coordinated integration, otherwise Canada risks falling behind in both productivity and market competitiveness.

• USU Researchers Explore Mini Vegetable Plants For Urban Agriculture

  6/5/2026

  As cities grow and farmland becomes increasingly distant from consumers, Utah State University researchers are exploring innovative ways to bring food production closer to home.

• New Blue Book App Puts Farm Decisions In Alberta Farmers' Hands

  6/3/2026

  Alberta’s three largest crop commissions, Alberta Canola, Alberta Grains and Alberta Pulse Growers, have launched a new mobile app for Alberta’s Crop Protection Guide, better known as the Blue Book, giving farmers and agronomists convenient, on the go access to crop protection guidance.

• Leveraging New Technologies For Sustainable Agriculture

  6/3/2026

  Changhyeon Kim, assistant professor in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture has established a research program in controlled environmental agriculture (CEA) at the College of Agriculture, Health and Natural Resources (CAHNR).