Science news articles about 'usda agricultural research service'

  • Texas researchers provide emissions data for livestock industry

    ... Texas A&M University, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, West Texas A&M University ... would represent most feed yards in our area." Research from this project has shown that emission rates for ammonia ...
  • First draft of the pig: Researchers sequence swine genome

    ... ," said Steve Kappes, deputy administrator of Animal Production and Protection for the USDA Agricultural Research Service. "This is a great day for the pig research community," said professor Alan ...
  • Organic corn: Increasing rotation complexity increases yields

    ... yields and effective management options. Scientists in the Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory at the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) ...
  • Getting to the root of the matter

    ... acquisition, and theoretical understanding. Recently, scientists from the U.S. Salinity Laboratory, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, assembled a collection of new research in the form of 13 papers ...
  • Getting To The Root Of The Matter

    ... , data acquisition and theoretical understanding. Recently, scientists from the US Salinity Laboratory, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, assembled a collection of new research in the form of 13 ...
  • Carbon sinks: Issues, markets, policy

    ... policy issues need to be addressed with regard to the issue. The symposium will be moderated by Jerry Hatfield, USDA-Agricultural Research Service and Past-President, American Society of Agronomy.
  • A model to measure soil health in the era of bioenergy

    ... Society of America Journal, a team of USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists detail ... ARS scientists at the Columbia Plateau Conservation Research Center in Pendleton, OR. Four long-term ...
  • DOE Joint Genome Institute completes soybean genome

    ... markers were developed by Perry Cregan and colleagues of the USDA-ARS with support of the United Soybean Board ... Collins and Judith St. John of USDA Agricultural Research Service co-chair the Interagency ...
  • Impact of floods on soils

    ... aggregation. Loss of soil aggregation impacts agriculture by decreasing soil quality and crop production. ... Mamedov and Chi-hua Huang, from USDA Agricultural Research Service, National Soil Erosion ...
  • Crop models help increase yield per unit of water used

    ... yield decline). Thus, WUE is key for agricultural production with limited water resources. Policymakers ... estimate WUE, a team member with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bushland, TX, organized ...
  • Environmental effects of cold-climate strawberry farming

    ... Matthew D. Stevens, currently with North Carolina State University, and a team of USDA-Agricultural Research Services (ARS) researchers developed an experiment to shed light on that question. Stevens ...
  • Fruit fly pest identified in wine grapes

    ... almost every week since OSU researchers first identified the fly in a sample of Oregon ... the OSU team is working with colleagues in the USDA Agricultural Research Service and ODA to develop management ...
  • Laser etching safe alternative for labeling grapefruit

    ... who headed the research team comprised of scientists from the University of Florida and the USDA Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS). "In Florida, grapefruit represents 43% of the citrus fresh ...
  • Tension on the grapevine

    ... estimate yield in grape crops. Thanks to extensive research efforts, grape producers may soon have access to ... M. Tarara and Paul E. Blom of the USDA-Agricultural Research Service's Horticultural Crops ...

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