AgrotechThe 15,650-square-foot ARS complex will study rainfall, runoff and soil erosion in semi-arid land, using rainfall simulators, drought studies and drones, and turn the results into tools for farmers and ranchers.
AgrotechAt World Food Day sessions in the Netherlands, a draft study put CGIAR's return to Dutch exports at €778 million a year, and speakers asked who really benefits from farm technology.
Visiting the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said farming is no longer profitable and called for storage and processing technology, cold storage and better terms for agricultural scientists.
LivestockThe grant, the largest federal award in the university's history, helps fund a $19.5 million Center for Beef Cattle Research and Innovation with 90 research pens and 45 commercial-scale pens in the Texas Panhandle.
AgribusinessThe National Agricultural Marketing Council says South Africa's agricultural industry trusts, which fund research, transformation and farmer development, grew by R154 million to R2.76 billion in 2024/25, with the Maize Trust adding the most.
LivestockA USDA grant matched by industry and partners gives NC State $7 million to set up the National Egg Science and Technology (NEST) Program, with a commercial-scale layer research farm and a processing and training centre.
CropsWith Agriculture Canada pulling out of late-stage variety work, farm groups are weighing Australia's levy-and-match system, the US mix of universities and companies, and Brazil's public Embrapa model.
AgrotechChina's agriculture ministry will groom 100 leading, 1,000 fast-growing and 10,000 high-potential agricultural technology companies and set 11 research priorities under the 15th Five-Year Plan, with AI to change how research is done.
VegetablesThe Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Ghana's CSIR-Crops Research Institute have signed a five-year MoU on joint research and technology transfer, beginning with high-yielding tomato lines and extending to cassava and yam processing and cold-chain work.
LivestockConstruction has begun on the Ontario Poultry Research Centre in Elora, backed by more than $24 million from the province, to study flock health, welfare, biosecurity, nutrition and production efficiency; it is due by summer 2028.
CropsResearchers in Denmark and the Netherlands found that three different plants assembled different bacterial species on their roots but the same core set of 266 functions, a finding they say could guide the design of biofertilisers.
A Peking University team says water passed over sunlight-activated minerals raised yields of rice, wheat, sugar cane and sweet potato in field trials, but the figures have not been independently reviewed.
AgribusinessAt the AgRI 2040 conference in Brussels, EU officials and farmers said agricultural research must reach farms faster, with less red tape, more partnerships and stronger demand for new products.
