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Organic Onions, Carrots and Potatoes Do Not Have Higher Levels of Healthful Antioxidants, Study Finds
November 3, 2010 — With the demand for organically produced food increasing, scientists are reporting new evidence that organically grown onions, carrots, and potatoes generally do not have higher levels of healthful ... > full story -
Digging Deep for Ways to Curb Ammonia Emissions
September 28, 2010 — Dairy farmers can greatly reduce ammonia emissions from their production facilities by injecting liquid manure into crop fields below the soil surface, according to new ... > full story -
Consumers Willing to Pay More for Locally Grown Apples, Vermont Study Shows
September 20, 2010 — Researchers in Vermont investigated consumer valuation of "major apple attributes", especially "locally grown" and "organic," and to examine the differences in preferences between consumers who had ... > full story -
Farm Management Choice Can Benefit Fungi Key to Healthy Ecosystems
September 13, 2010 — Farming practices have a significant impact on the diversity of beneficial microbial fungi known to play important roles in crop productivity, soil recovery and maintenance of healthy ecosystems, ... > full story -
Southern Soils Mitigate Manure Microbes
September 10, 2010 — Scientists release the first report of bacterial pathogens in soils treated with swine ... > full story -
Did Viking Mars Landers Find Life's Building Blocks? Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Puzzle
September 4, 2010 — Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of ... > full story -
Commercial Organic Farms Have Better Fruit and Soil, Lower Environmental Impact, Study Finds
September 1, 2010 — Side-by-side comparisons of organic and conventional strawberry farms and their fruit found the organic farms produced more flavorful and nutritious berries while leaving the soil healthier and more ... > full story -
Forecasting the Fate of Fertilizer in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
August 18, 2010 — Reducing the runoff from plant nutrients that can eventually wash into the Chesapeake Bay could someday be as easy as checking the weather ... > full story -
Is Biochar the Answer for Agriculture? Long-Term Study Digs Up New Information on Biochar’s Ability to Reduce Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Soils
August 2, 2010 — Scientists have found that over several months, biochar applied to soil can significantly reduce emissions of nitrous oxide and leaching of ... > full story -
Fungi's Role in the Cycle of Life Discovered
July 15, 2010 — The nitrogen cycle is the natural process that makes nitrogen available to all organisms on earth. Scientists have discovered that one of the world's most common and ecologically important groups of ... > full story
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