Agriculture News
Memoir tracks the life, decline and death of an Illinois family farm
Published Date:May 30, 2012
There is no sentimentality in Robert Switzers modestly titled new book, A Family Farm: Life on an Illinois Dairy Farm. Switzer, an emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Illinois, begins with a quote (from Victor Davis Hansons own book on farming) that the American yeoman farmer is doomed, and describes the internal and external forces that led to the decline and demise of his familys farm in northwest Illinois.
Published Date: May 30, 2012
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
