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This week’s Fresh Take also looks at the fate of spoiled USAID provisions, an upcoming Q&A on MAHA and the food industry, how ...
AgCenter breeder Michael Pontif announced a new U.S. Department of Agriculture variety release, HoCP 18-803. After 12 years ...
Fiji lacks specialized harvesters for farming on hilly and rugged land, which makes it hard for sugarcane farmers in places ...
Sugarcane fields burn along Highway 190, Wednesday, November 1, 2023, in West Baton Rouge, La. STAFF PHOTO BY HILARY SCHEINUK ...
The red-striped soft scale insects (RSSI) infestation on Negros Island continues to spread, impacting many other sugarcane plantations, according to the Sugar Regulatory Administration (SRA). Data ...
The aphid was carried from Africa by the harmattan wind across the ocean to the Caribbean; it was detected in Florida’s sugarcane fields in the late nineteen-seventies and, in 2013, on sorghum ...
A new report by Tuskegee University and Florida A&M challenges the narrative spun by advocacy groups who seek to prohibit preharvest burns used by sugarcane growers.
The rapid expansion of sugarcane farming in Busoga Sub-region is fuelling climate change, according to local leaders and scientists. Forests have been cleared to make way for sugarcane, causing ...
Our field trials are an integral part of the LC3M project, and form the backbone of our Theme 3: Applied weathering science. Here we catch up with the progress on our Australian field sites from 2016 ...
The process of harvesting sugarcane is a true testament to agricultural innovation. With the help of advanced machinery, farmers can harvest billions of tons of sugarcane every year, meeting the ...
“Seeing is believing” India is the world’s biggest producer of sugar cane but much of it comes from small farms like Jagtap’s in Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh in the north. For small farmers, drought, ...