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@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-18 00:32:54

Graphics-Guided Interactive Farmland Layout Design
#farming #agriculture

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-10-11 02:09:19

🐛 Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
phys.org/news/2025-09-nanotech

Using nanotechnology to target crop-munching pests and spare beneficial bugs
A bane of farmers' existence, it's estimated that plant-eating pests are responsible for the loss of up to 40% of pre-harvest yields globally. But a new generation of crop treatments that target only "bad" bugs could mean big gains for the Canadian agriculture sector, improving pest management tools in an industry that in 2024 generated over $142 billion.

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-04 02:37:13

🌼🌷🏵️ Q&A: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds and promote biodiversity
#agriculture

Q&A: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds and promote biodiversity
Rebecca Stup '23, MS '26, is a master's student in the lab of Antonio DiTommaso, a weed ecologist and associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). DiTommaso's lab has been exploring planting wildflower strips along farmland as a strategy to increase biodiversity, attract pollinators and combat weeds.

@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz
2025-12-09 21:54:46
Content warning: interesting piece on the evidence that bird flu is airborne

"At the vast majority of egg farms, he said, infections started with chickens close to air inlets and on upper levels, far from where virus tracked in on shoes and clothes would end up. ...
"After the virus spilled into nearby Indiana, the state’s head of avian health began to notice a pattern: If a farm had an outbreak and the wind was blowing hard that day, she could expect to hear news about another farm needing to test dead hens five to seven days later. ...
"[In France] vaccinating and regularly testing the ducks cost $120 million after the first year, compared with the $1.6 billion the disease response cost in the outbreaks in 2021 and 2022."
"What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic" — ProPublica
#BirdFluIsAirborne #BirdFlu #agriculture #weather #research #USA

@UP8@mastodon.social
2025-12-03 16:38:25

🐿️ Midwest Farms Are Going Nuts
#agriculture

Midwest Farms Are Going Nuts
A shift toward growing chestnuts, pecans and walnuts is reviving soil once exhausted by dreary corn and soy.