Agriculture News
Study: Optimizing biofuel supply chain is a competitive game
Published Date:April 18, 2012
According to new models created by University of Illinois researchers, most studies of the" food versus fuel" debate so far have overlooked a key factor: selfish and possibly competing interests of the biofuel industry and individual farmers, who independently seek the most profit from their crops.
Published Date: April 18, 2012
Policies, learning-by-doing played important role in reducing ethanol costs
Published Date:April 12, 2012
A new study co-authored by Madhu Khanna, a professor of agricultural and consumer economics at Illinois, and Xiaoguang Chen, of the U. of I. Energy Biosciences Institute, quantifies the role that factors such as economies of scale and learning-by-doing played in reducing the processing costs of corn ethanol.
Published Date: April 12, 2012
Team aims to make sugarcane, sorghum into oil-producing crops
Published Date:March 1, 2012
With the support of a $3.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy, researchers will take the first steps toward engineering two new oil-rich crops.
Published Date: March 1, 2012
Researcher tracks agricultural overuse of bug-killing technology
Published Date:February 29, 2012
High corn prices are leading many growers to plant corn every year and to overuse pesticides and other bug-killing technology to maximize yields, researchers report in a new study.
Published Date: February 29, 2012
Patterns of antibiotic-resistant bacteria seen in Galpagos reptiles
Published Date:January 23, 2012
Land and marine iguanas and giant tortoises living close to human settlements or tourist sites in the Galpagos Islands were more likely to harbor antibiotic-resistant bacteria than those living in more remote or protected sites on the islands, researchers report in a new study.
Published Date: January 23, 2012
