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A PLOS ONE study from Egypt tested Azolla-based green manure and compost in heavy-metal-contaminated soils and reported improvements in rice performance and key soil indicators.
ScienceDaily reports UCLA Health findings that long-term chlorpyrifos exposure is linked to more than a 2.5-fold higher likelihood of Parkinson’s disease.
A Scientific Reports study applied a CEC-based fertility index for variable soybean seeding and reported higher yields and net returns than fixed-rate seeding.
Nature Genetics reports a genomics-guided maize breeding strategy for high-density planting, with new hybrids delivering 4.1–9.2% higher yields than Yufeng303 across test environments.
A Nature Communications study estimated global soil microbial nitrogen-use efficiency (NUE) and phosphorus-use efficiency (PUE), with mean values of 0.60 and 0.35 respectively.
Farmers in Australia’s Riverina say rabbit pressure is causing losses of up to $100,000 a year on individual properties, with crop damage, baiting costs and weakening biological control…
A field study found that residues from a fluopyram-trifloxystrobin premix in cucumber fell below the 0.01 mg/kg quantification limit within 10 to 15 days after the final spray,…
Johns Hopkins researchers found that tomatoes, carrots and lettuce irrigated with treated wastewater tend to accumulate trace pharmaceuticals mainly in leaves, while edible tomato fruits and carrot roots…
Sabah officials say the state has enough rice to last through September despite local shortfalls, with fresh stocks on the way and a parallel push to raise local…