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Researchers tackle lowering indoor growing costs
One of the steepest barriers to profitable controlled-environment agriculture is the energy cost associated with providing the plants enough light, but new research being pioneered by the University of Georgia could cut those costs by... more »
SmartPath technology to lead to smart farm irrigation
By testing new technology, University of Florida scientists will work with growers to encourage their use of alternatives to fresh water by using new smart irrigation systems. This way, growers can lower their risk of... more »
Live Oak Farms expands packing, starts growing jalapenos
Live Oak Farms is known primarily as a grower and shipper of tomatoes, but the company this year added a jalapeño crop, and more complex packing equipment. Those changes are reducing the amount of labor... more »
Project seeks to enhance spinach production, safety
Texas A&M AgriLife research will collaborate with the Texas Department of Agriculture and the University of California at Davis on a project to help agricultural producers and consumers through improving nitrogen use efficiency and food... more »
NC State indoor farming research gets boost
North Carolina State University’s Ricardo Hernandez is breaking new ground when it comes to controlled environment agriculture, the increasingly popular practice of producing crops indoors. Hernandez’s goal is to make indoor farming more profitable and... more »
Kill on sight: UGA urges growers, ag workers to fight pepper weevil
Pepper weevils are such a threat to Georgia’s pepper crop that University of Georgia vegetable entomologist David Riley said Georgia farmers and agricultural workers should immediately kill any weevils found on fruit, equipment or clothes.... more »
Rutgers develops disease-resistant Sweet Basil
Rutgers University-New Brunswick researchers have created four new varieties of... more »
Silverleaf whiteflies crisis in Georgia researched
Silverleaf whiteflies devastated Georgia’s cotton and fall vegetable crops last year. In response to this crisis, a team of University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences research and UGA Cooperative Extension specialists is... more »
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