Sustainability News

  1. Topcon Agriculture Announces Enhanced Boom Height Control Solution With UC7 Plus 7/14/2025

    Topcon Agriculture has introduced the next generation of its boom height control technology for agricultural spraying applications with the launch of the UC7 Plus.

  2. How Plants Survive Drought: The Unsuspected Role Of Myosin XI In Guard Cells 7/14/2025

    With climate change exacerbating drought conditions, scientists in Japan have identified a hidden player in plant survival: myosin XI.

  3. Spearhead Bio Awarded NSF Tech Transfer Grant To Accelerate Development Of Improved Corn Varieties 7/14/2025

    Spearhead Bio, a biotechnology startup revolutionizing crop genome engineering through the use of plants' own natural DNA, has been awarded a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

  4. U.S. Pest Aligns With National Push For Cleaner Agriculture And Glyphosate-Free Food Production 7/11/2025

    U.S. Pest, a trusted leader in pest management solutions in Tennessee, today announced its strong support for recent initiatives, including those championed by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to eliminate toxic pesticides like glyphosate from agriculture and food production.

  5. Qore Launches In Eddyville, Iowa, Ushering In Large-Scale Corn Processing For Bio-Based Solutions 7/10/2025

    Qore, a joint venture of Minnesota-based Cargill and Germany-based HELM, is officially starting production of QIRA, the world’s first large-scale 1,4-butanediol (BDO) made from locally grown dent corn.

  6. Study Helps Urban Farmers Create 'Light Recipe' To Increase Crop Yield 7/10/2025

    Researchers have developed a new formula to allow urban farmers to design their own ‘light recipe’ - a combination of different colours of lighting that could help increase crop yields in vertical farms.

  7. Reference Genomes For Rice's Wild Relatives May Boost Future Crops 7/10/2025

    A near-complete genomic framework of wild Oryza species now provides insights into the evolution of the genus and offers new avenues for crop improvement and conservation efforts[1].

  8. CSU Introduces Technology To Farmers For Rice Production And Methane Reduction 7/10/2025

    Faculty-researchers from the College of Agriculture and Agri-Industries (CAA), through the Soil Science Division, introduced an efficient way for green carbon credit through the Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) technology to nearby local farmers on July 9, at the HERO Learning Commons.

  9. New Land Grant Research Detects Dicamba Damage From The Sky 7/9/2025

    Drones can now detect subtle soybean canopy damage from dicamba at one ten-thousandth of the herbicide’s label rate — simulating vapor drift — eight days after application.

  10. Branching Out: Tomato Genes Point To New Medicines 7/9/2025

    Picture juicy red tomatoes on the vine. What do you see? Some tomato varieties have straight vines. Others are branched. The question is why. New research from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) provides the strongest evidence to date that the answer lies in what are called cryptic mutations.