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Direct Isotopic Tracking Eliminates Uncertainties Inherent in Indirect Nitrogen Flux Estimations

"The lake surface is calm, and the still air is glorious on this cool, cloudless August morning," Iowa State University's Elizabeth Swanner wrote about a research trip to a 60-foot deep, 13-acre lake within Itasca State Park and the Mississippi River headwaters of north-central Minnesota.

10 Oct 2026

Study Highlights Life-Cycle Impacts of Trading Feed Versus Animal-Derived Food

The United States currently exports large quantities of soybeans, maize and other feed crops to China, where they support livestock production. This arrangement has advantages: growing the feed in the United States causes less global nitrogen loss than producing the same feed entirely in China, according to the study. Yet the feed and the animals that consume it are largely separated across two countries.

10 Oct 2026

Study Identifies Critical Parameters for Sustainable Urban Rooftop Farming

Factors such as sunlight and stage-specific nutrient application determine crop success in urban agriculture, far beyond fixed recipes or miracle solutions.

9 Oct 2026

Improving Midwestern Crop Yields Through Enhanced Fertilizer Efficiency Research Projects

Two University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have received nearly $1.6 million from the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research's Efficient Fertilizer Consortium to study how fertilizers perform under Midwestern growing conditions.

1 Oct 2026

Why Cutting Three Sausages or Seven Burgers From Our Diet Can Help One Billion Animals

The RSPCA is challenging people to make simple, savvy food choices to reduce their animal product consumption by three percent each year - in a move which could spare ONE BILLION land animals from lower welfare farming.

1 Oct 2026

Space Biosphere Company Launches Mission to Tackle Dairy Waste

A company that helped design how astronauts grow and recycle food in space is now applying that thinking to the critical problem of dairy waste here on Earth.

4 Aug 2026

Waste Not, Want Not: Farming Insects for Human Food

They’re wriggly black grubs more commonly tossed to backyard hens than served at the dinner table, but black soldier fly larvae could soon play a key role in building a more sustainable food system, according to new research from Adelaide University.

3 Aug 2026

Topsoe Lands Technology Contract for Pioneering Blue Ammonia Fertilizer Project

Topsoe, a leading global provider of advanced technology and solutions for the energy transition, has signed an agreement with J Westling & Co (JWC), a Nebraska-based company developing blue ammonia solutions, also referred to as low carbon ammonia, to support the production of domestically sourced fertilizers for American farmers.

From Topsoe 9 Jul 2026

Prominent Australians Join Millions Calling for an End to Queensland Museum’s Fossil Fuel Deal with Shell

More than 50 organizations with millions of members, and prominent Australians, including Tim Winton and Natalie Kyriacou, have demanded the Queensland Museum end a controversial sponsorship deal with fossil fuel giant, Shell.

1 Jul 2026

Australia’s Farmland at Risk of ‘Ecological Collapse’

Australia may need to fundamentally redraw its rural landscape — retiring farms, restoring vast tracts of vegetation and reshaping regional economies — if it is to avoid accelerating species loss and meet global biodiversity targets.

30 Jun 2026