sustainable-farming

Roman female farm managers likely oversaw valuable agricultural production rather than serving only as housekeepers. Across five centuries of Roman laws, literature, and grave inscriptions, female farm managers repeatedly appear in the surviving record. Yet modern historians have often treated them as housekeepers responsible for meals and domestic work, separate from the farm’s productive operat…

A simpler method for measuring DNA-bound phosphorus could improve understanding of soil microbes and nutrient cycling. Scientists have created a simpler, more cost-effective way to measure a biologically important form of phosphorus in soil. The method offers a clearer view of how nutrients move through soils and could help guide more sustainable farming practices. Phosphorus [...]

Scientists have been searching for ethical, high-quality alternatives to animal leather, which notoriously comes with environmental costs and ethical compromises. While synthetic alternatives solve the ethical dilemma, many of them are plastic-based and very difficult to recycle. Now, researchers are trying to find an option that checks all the boxes, and the best material for it seems to be … mu…

By: Aker QRILL Company Aker QRILL Company, a producer and supplier of krill meal and krill oil—innovative ingredients with unique nutritional properties—has announced its membership in the Sustainable Shrimp Partnership (SSP), the leading alliance of producers and companies committed to the sustainable and responsible development of the shrimp industry. Aker QRILL Company’s incorporation into SSP…

In the heart of India’s agricultural heartland, the Middle Gangetic Plain stretches across four distinct agro-climatic zones—Tarai, Eastern, North-Eastern, and Vindhyan Plains—where millions of farmers depend on seasonal rains to nourish their crops.

By: AquaNab With sea lice costing the aquaculture industry an estimated USD 4 billion annually, the Hamburg-based company has developed AquaNabs, a first-of-its-kind nanoantibody treatment, delivered through fish feed, offering a sustainable alternative to conventional chemical and mechanical delousing.  AquaNab, a Hamburg-based biotechnology company, is developing precision nanoan…

Scientific Data, Published online: 21 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41597-026-08105-2 Global agricultural nitrogen and phosphorus flows for 160 crops and pastures for 187 regions in 2010–2022

ROSEBURG, Ore. — Military veterans leaned over a raised garden bed at the Oregon State University Extension Service Douglas County Agricultural Learning Center, parting tall stalks of flowering bok choy to see what was ready to harvest. Michael Swearingen held a freshly pulled daikon radish while Dawnetta Loomis and Josh Vader inspected lettuce that had […] The post Veterans Build Farming Skills,…

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