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Is precision agriculture the new low hanging fruit?
In the world of agriculture, ‘precision ag’ is hot. Precision agriculture is a farm and site specific management system to optimize inputs and outputs. Essentially, farmers use GPS, sensors and big...
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An Oilseed Crop for Florida’s Lost Citrus Acreage
Diseased abandoned citrus acreage in Florida While the United States is the most efficient agricultural producer on the planet, it also is home to one of the greatest agricultural disasters on earth....
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Cool (coffee) beans
My wife and I spent some time in Colombia recently and the highlight of the trip (there were many) was visiting a coffee plantation in Salento, a town 300km east of Bogota. I grew up seeing the Juan...
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Grazing the Steaks
The imagery of cattle on 747, flying 2500 miles across the Pacific ocean took me by surprise –and wasn’t an idea I ever thought I would have to entertain until I began exploring the market potential...
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Climate Changes Role in the Syrian Uprising
Happy 2016! This is a recent post that Adam put up on ecosciencewire.com By: Adam Hanbury-Brown Three years before Syria’s uprising in 2011, the country experienced the worst drought in recorded...
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Fixing Nitrogen, Waste
By William Kusch Figure 1: What is your nitrogen footprint? You may be familiar with the concept of carbon footprint, but when was the last time you measured your nitrogen footprint? If you are like...
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Land Sharing vs. Land Sparing: Can We Maximize Yield and Biodiversity?
By Nathan Chan, TerViva Germplasm Development Associate We often think of the environmental impacts of agriculture being limited to things like pesticides and nutrient runoff polluting waterways (see...
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Toward a Low-Carbon Transportation Future: Part 2
By Tomas Endicott, Processing & Markets Manager Last week I wrote about carbon intensity and how the GREET model, standardized by the U.S. Department of Energy, quantifies the amount of carbon...
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Market Driven Restoration: Stepping Beyond Sustainability
by Drew Wilkinson, TerViva Propagation Associate As a farmer, I’m naturally drawn to the diverse array of agriculture solutions that hold potential for making significant strides towards a carbon...
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Is This the Crop That Saves Florida Agriculture?
by Tom Schenk If you’ve driven through central and southern Florida over the last several years, you may have wondered why much of the land that used to grow oranges and grapefruit in central and...
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