Fruits & vegetables news
2024-05-13
No Love for Mealybug Menace of Vineyards
Fake pheromones offer a way to foil the love lives of vine mealybugs and keep populations of these prolific, soft-bodied insect pests from reaching damaging levels in vineyards of wine, raisin and... Read more
2024-05-12
Tunisia’s olive farmers adapt to extreme weather
Drought has had a severe impact on the olive harvest in Tunisia, resulting in exploding olive oil prices. Farmers are finding ways to adapt to extreme weather, such as switching to new irrigation... Read more
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2024-05-10
Report: There Are No Good or Bad Oil Crops, Only Good and Bad Practices
When shopping, have you considered the social and environmental impacts of your vegetable oil purchases? Most products offer limited information on these effects. Labels like "No Palm Oil"—linked to... Read more
2024-05-10
USDA, HHS Announce New Actions to Reduce Impact and Spread of H5N1
On March 25, 2024, immediately following the first detection of H5N1 in dairy cattle in the Texas panhandle region, USDA and HHS began their work to understand the origin of the emergence and its... Read more
2024-05-09
EPA seeks to ban acephate pesticides to protect human health and environment
EPA proposes banning acephate pesticides to protect health and environment, impacting U.S. fruit and vegetable farming. Read more
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2024-05-09
EPA seeks to ban acephate pesticides to protect human health and environment
EPA proposes banning acephate pesticides to protect health and environment, impacting U.S. fruit and vegetable farming. Read more
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2024-05-09
April FAO food prices index slightly higher, vegetable oils and cereals climbing
The benchmark for world food commodity prices edged higher in April, as higher prices of meat and modest upticks for vegetable oils and cereals outweighed decreases in sugar and dairy product prices,... Read more
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2024-05-09
Scientists Use Gene-Editing Technology to Produce First Calf Resistant to Major Viral Disease
Scientists have collaborated to produce the first gene-edited calf with resistance to bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), a virus that costs the U.S. cattle sector billions of dollars annually. Read more
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2024-05-08
USDA-ARS Research Entomologist Named Finalist in the Samuel J. Heyman Service To America Medal
Rebecca Schmidt-Jeffris, a research entomologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service, is being honored today as a finalist for a 2023 Samuel J. Heyman Service to... Read more
2024-05-08
Clinical trial offers new approach to managing severe food allergies in children
A Natasha Allergy Research Foundation funded trial has been carried out, observing children with “severe milk and peanut allergies”. Read more
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2024-05-07
This Summer’s Drought Will Plague Farmers in Yakima Valley and Kittitas Area
On the south slope of Rattlesnake Mountain in the Yakima Valley, north of Prosser, water is measured by the puny drip. Jim Willard grows mainly grapes and a few apples. Read more
2024-05-07
This Summer’s Drought Will Plague Farmers in Yakima Valley and Kittitas Area
On the south slope of Rattlesnake Mountain in the Yakima Valley, north of Prosser, water is measured by the puny drip. Jim Willard grows mainly grapes and a few apples. Read more