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July 10, 2018

For many Americans, highly processed foods are on the menu for breakfast, lunch, and dinner

April 13, 2018

Faba bean cover crop halves added nitrogen requirement

March 13, 2018

Myriad benefits include 90 percent suppression of pests, severely limited spraying and damage to crops

February 9, 2018

A promising technique that makes maize more productive even in droughts has now been unpacked and looks set to do the same fo...

April 28, 2017

Researchers are finding a way to lessen the harm and increase the benefits of removing maize stover, which is often used...

November 29, 2016

The sound corn emits while growing is surprisingly similar to the sound of breaking corn, and one possible reason behind it m...

September 18, 2015

Corn yielding sucrose is much better for ethanol production than conventional corn yielding starch, researcher says

April 8, 2015

A team of Virginia Tech researchers discovered a way to create hydrogen fuel using a biological method that greatly reduces t...

April 22, 2014

Using corn crop residue to make ethanol and other biofuels reduces soil carbon and can generate more greenhouse gases than ga...

August 22, 2013

A fungus and E. coli bacteria have joined forces to turn tough, waste plant material into isobutanol, a biofuel that matches ...

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