Latest Food Headlines

81. Altering The Circadian Clock Adapts Barley To Short Growing Seasons 2/20/2024

    To ensure that plants flower at the right time of year, they possess an internal clock, which enables them to measure the amount of daylight during a day.

82. Integral Farms Produce Inc. Enhances Tomato Production With Sollum's Dynamic Led Lighting 2/20/2024

    Recognizing the importance of innovation in their diverse agriculture portfolio, Integral Farms Produce Inc., owned and operated by the Arts family , has selected Sollum®'s dynamic LED lighting solution for a significant portion of their tomato greenhouses.

83. Ag-tech Start-Up WeedOUT Raises USD8.1M To Fight Weed Resistance 2/20/2024

    Ag-tech start-up WeedOUT, Ltd., announces it has secured USD8.1 million in A-round funding. Leading the round is Fulcrum Global Capital, a prominent US agri- focused VC with ties to a vast network of farmers across the US. 

84. Potassium Depletion In Soil Threatens Global Crop Yields 2/19/2024

    The study, published in Nature Food, found that more potassium is being removed from agricultural soils than is being added, throughout many regions of the world.

85. American Packaging Corporation Announces Another ‘Design For Recycle’ Package 2/19/2024

    American Packaging Corporation (APC), a leader in flexible packaging solutions, announces the commercial launch of another RE™ Design for Recycle flexible packaging technology targeted at frozen food products such as frozen fruits and vegetables.

86. Researchers Present New Approach To Identify Key Regulatory Factors In Wheat Spike Development 2/17/2024

    Wheat, a globally important food crop, derives its yield from factors such as number of spikes per unit area, thousand-grain weight and grain yield per spike.

87. MIT Researchers Remotely Map Crops, Field By Field 2/15/2024

    Crop maps help scientists and policymakers track global food supplies and estimate how they might shift with climate change and growing populations.

88. Using Written Records – And Tweets – As A Roadmap For Plant Disease Spread 2/15/2024

    North Carolina State University researchers used text analytics on both historic and modern writing to reveal more information about the effects and spread of the plant pathogen – now known as Phytophthora infestans – that caused the 1840s Irish potato famine and that continues to vex breeders of potatoes and tomatoes.

89. Scientists Identify Genetic Mechanism Responsible For Plant Leaf Diversity 2/15/2024

    Plant leaves come in many different shapes, sizes and complexities.

90. Future Farming Funding Boost To Sugar Beet Innovation In Norwich 2/15/2024

    The John Innes Centre, Norwich Research Park partners and British Sugar have secured significant new funding to develop innovative gene editing approaches to protect the British sugar beet crop against potentially catastrophic losses to virus yellows disease.