NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — The Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve (JC NERR) is working with a team from Rutgers University to develop a Resilience Checklist for New Jersey’s Commercial Fisheries to help fishing businesses evaluate and improve their preparedness for coastal hazards and fisheries changes. Funded by New Jersey Sea Grant Consortium, the project […]

MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas State University entomologist Anthony Zukoff said a naturally occurring nematode might help solve a variety of corn rootworm resistance issues in farmers’ fields. He and other researchers are seeking help from corn producers in Kansas to participate in a study that is now more than 10 years old. The study looks […]

SIDNEY, Mont. — USDA, Agricultural Research Service’s (ARS) Northern Plains Agricultural Research Laboratory, in collaboration with the Soil Health Institute in N.C., evaluated the measurement of carbon dioxide flush—a rapid, reliable, and inexpensive method producers can use to measure soil health on dryland cropping systems—and refined it to be closely associated with most soil properties and long-term crop […]

WOODLAND, Calif. — Enteric viruses account for a number of produce-related foodborne illness outbreaks, but research into detecting and mitigating them is about a decade behind that for bacterial pathogens. Through her research, Gloria Sánchez, Ph.D., with the Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnologia de Alimentos (IATA) in Valencia, Spain, hopes to fill some of the […]