Sustainability News

  1. Regional Project Implemented By IICA Strengthens Sweet Potato Cultivation In Caribbean Countries 4/16/2026

    Efforts to strengthen sweet potato production and preserve vital genetic resources across the Caribbean are gaining momentum under the Next Generation Sweet Potato Production in the Caribbean Project, now actively engaging stakeholders through a Community of Practice with technical specialists in Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

  2. Comprehensive Study Evaluates Yield Performance Of Spring Sweet Corn Varieties In Southeastern US 4/16/2026

    A two-part research project provides detailed performance data on spring-grown sweet corn varieties across the Southeastern United States, offering growers guidance on selecting bicolor, white, and yellow cultivars for reliable yield and market quality.

  3. AgroPlantae, Inc. To Acquire Kemin Industries' Portfolio Of Crop Technologies Products 4/16/2026

    AgroPlantae, which serves the plant nutrition specialties industry with innovative, sustainable solutions to help crops overcome biotic and abiotic challenges and to restore soil and plant vitality to ensure high crop yields, has acquired the product portfolio of Kemin Crop Technologies, which provides growers with premium botanical-based biopesticides, plant nutrition, and soil health solutions designed for specialty crops, greenhouse production, and real-world agronomic challenges.

  4. From The Air To The Field: How Nitrogen Fertiliser Helps Feed The World – And Why Supply Chains Matter 4/15/2026

    When lightning strikes a paddock, it does more than scorch grass and scare the cows. The electrical discharge breaks apart nitrogen molecules in the atmosphere, converting them into a form that falls to earth in rain and becomes available to plants.

  5. Tomato Industry Taking Steps To Stop Spread Of Parasitic Weed 4/15/2026

    California’s processing tomato industry for the first time this past harvest season agreed to voluntary equipment cleaning and notification guidelines to prevent the spread of branched broomrape, a parasitic weed that attaches to roots and sucks out key nutrients.

  6. Key Transcription Factor SlERF.F4 Found To Strengthen Tomato Resistance To Gray Mold 4/15/2026

    Gray mold (Botrytis cinerea) is a devastating post-harvest disease of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) that causes billions of dollars in global economic losses annually.

  7. Renewed Effort To Supercharge Faba Bean Breeding And Expansion 4/15/2026

    A new national Faba Bean Breeding Program will provide growers with improved higher-yielding varieties of faba beans with better disease resistance, quality traits and adaptation across Australian growing regions.

  8. Nigeria Approves High-Performing Groundnut Variety SAMNUT 30 Developed By ICRISAT 4/14/2026

    Nigeria has approved the release of SAMNUT 30 (ICGV 206228), a high-performing groundnut variety developed by ICRISAT, marking an important step toward enhancing productivity and resilience and food and nutrition security among smallholder farmers.

  9. Flies Found To Be Effective Pollinators Of Berry Crops 4/14/2026

    Researchers at the University of New England have identified two fly species as promising pollinators for berry crops, offering a vital alternative to European honey bees in protected cropping systems.

  10. New Genetic Discovery Reveals Why Some Plants Are Born To Survive A Warming World 4/14/2026

    The new study published in Plants, People and Planet has identified that certain plants were born with a biological starter kit of genes that allowed them to evolve a turbo-charged form of growth known as C4 photosynthesis.