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Organic farming methods

Organic farming methods combine scientific knowledge and modern technology with traditional farming practices based on thousands of years of agriculture.

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Bats Struggle During Organic Farming Transition

July 20, 2023 — Bat activity falls as farms make the transition to organic agriculture, new research ...

Organic Farming or Flower Strips: Which Is Better for Bees?

May 21, 2022 — How effective environmental measures in agriculture are for biodiversity and wild bee populations depends on various factors and your perspective. This is shown by agroecologists. The research team ...

Promoting Biodiversity-Friendly Landscapes Beyond Organic Farming

Aug. 4, 2021 — Is organic farming the only alternative to conventional agriculture to promote biodiversity in agricultural landscapes? An international research team questions this. According to the authors, a ...

No-Till Farming Study Shows Benefit to Midwestern Land Values

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June 21, 2023 — A new farming system aims to solve one of the biggest problems in modern agriculture: the overuse of fertilizers to improve crop yields and the resulting chemical runoff that pollutes the ...

New Animal Welfare Scoring System Could Enable Better-Informed Food and Farming Choices

Mar. 22, 2023 — Scientists have come up with a system of measuring animal welfare that enables reliable comparison across different types of pig ...

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Feb. 24, 2022 — An experiment conducted on 10 farms across the U.S. suggests that crops from farms following soil-friendly practices for at least five years have a healthier nutritional profile than the same crops ...

Sustainable Farming: There’s No One Solution

Oct. 14, 2021 — Sustainable agriculture will not be achieved by one universal solution. A meta-analysis shows that the current focus on no-till farming does not achieve the desired results. A sustainable system of ...

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July 11, 2022 — Pocket gophers are known for living solitary, underground lives, eating roots in North and Central American grasslands. Now, researchers have found that pocket gophers keep up with the high energy ...

Conservation Policies Risk Damaging Global Biodiversity, Researchers Argue

June 21, 2023 — Rewilding, organic farming and the 'nature friendly farming' measures included in some government conservation policies risk worsening the global biodiversity crisis by reducing how much ...

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Nov. 30, 2023 — A recent trial of identical twins comparing vegan and omnivore diets found that a vegan diet improves overall cardiovascular ...

Brittle Stars Can Learn Just Fine -- Even Without a Brain

Nov. 29, 2023 — We humans are fixated on big brains as a proxy for smarts. But headless animals called brittle stars have no brains at all and still manage to learn through experience, new research reveals. These shy marine creatures have no brain to speak of -- ...

Evolution of Taste: Early Sharks Were Able to Perceive Bitter Substances

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Found at Last: Bizarre, Egg-Laying Mammal Finally Rediscovered After 60 Years

Nov. 9, 2023 — A long-beaked echidna named after Sir David Attenborough and last seen by scientists in 1961 has been photographed for the first time in an Indonesian tropical forest. An international team of ...

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