To Raise Armyworms and Corn Borers, Study Insect Husbandry
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Frank M.  Davis and other experts have developed an entire technology to breed large numbers of insects for a variety of exotic jobs.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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Ministry of Agriculture expresses hope temperature drop and change in windâs direction would assist in overcoming problem. After millions of locusts invaded southern Israel on Sunday, the Ministry of Agriculture
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A startup company says new test results show their genetically modified mosquitoes can combat tropical diseases and crop pests. There are skeptics, however.
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Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since World War II. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
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Study bolsters theory about interference with production of key hormone.
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Farmworkers exposed to high levels of pesticides, as well as home gardeners who use these chemicals to kill insects and fungus on their house plants, run a higher risk of brain cancer, according to a study released on Tuesday.
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U.S. Army researchers say cutting-edge energy technologies are integral to meeting the needs of today's soldiers.
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LOBOS, Argentina  - Every year, rancher Gaston Caset leaves a little less space for cattle on his farm in Argentina's fertile pampas plains, planting more lucrative wheat and soybeans instead.
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Genetically-modified sugar beet can be grown in a way that helps wildlife, UK researchers say.
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There is the Scarsdale Diet ... the Atkins Diet... and now: the Diet of Pig Whipworms.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Feb. 14--You'd think the chairman of the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee would be up on environmental issues.
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Researchers who helped discover a new species of Mexican butterfly are offering to sell the naming rights to raise money to fund more research.
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It has all the makings of a potential rangeland disaster: thousands of acres of grass and the herds of cattle, antelope and other animals that need to eat it versus an emerging army of spiky caterpillars with voracious appetites. But ranchers hope quick action will take care of the caterpillars &#151; also known as range worms &#151; before they can destroy pastures in northeastern New Mexico.
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Extracting artemisinin from the wormwood plant is labor intensive. UC Berkeley will complete development of a synthetic process to procuce artemisinic acid, while Amyris will develop processes
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VYEBOOM, South Africa -- It takes a certain eye to look at snails crawling over one another and see them as a escargots bubbling in garlic butter, never mind a means for poor parents to feed their children.