Even though farmers have been dealing with rice stink bugs as pests since the 1880s, entomologists are still getting to know them at the genetic level. A first-of-its-kind study published on the ...

This program is charged with cryopreservation of the genetic material for a broad spectrum of agricultural animal species, including dairy and beef cattle, swine, small ruminants, aquatic organisms ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) - A delegation of U.S. livestock genetics and agriculture leaders representing Kansas, Missouri, New Mexico, Idaho, and the Senepol Cattle Breeders Association traveled to ...

Agriculture has long been dependent on the ability of plant species to adapt to varying environmental conditions — without this diversity agriculture development would not have been possible. But ...

Investors, governments and consumers around the world are continuing to challenge corporations to aggressively reduce their environmental footprints. To date, 83 percent of Fortune 500 companies have ...

IDEAL, S.D. — Livestock producers around the country are bringing old genetics back to new herds thanks to the the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Animal Germplasm Program. The animal ...

Cattle sales consultant Wes Tiemann reviewed the catalog for an Angus auction in March at Henke Farms at Salisbury, Missouri. Each animal in the auction had been DNA-tested. Beef cattle ranchers have ...

Knowledge of agricultural genetic resources needs to grow more quickly because of the critical role they have to play in feeding the world as climate change advances faster than expected, according to ...

A NEW journal Genetica Agraria, has been published by the National Institute of Genetics in Rome. It will include research papers upon agriculture and genetics which were previously issued as ...