Mustard – Hot Stuff for Natural Pest Control

Researchers, growers and Industry specialists from 22 countries will share the latest research into the use of Brassica species, such as mustard, radish, or rapeseed, to manage soil-borne pests and weeds – a technique known as biofumigation. Read more

DNA Test to Revolutionize Sheep Worm Control

Barber’s pole worm, Haemonchus contortus, is one of the top three nematode parasites of sheep. Nematode parasites cost the Australian industry hundreds of millions of dollars each year in lost production, veterinary drugs, and animal deaths. Read more

Canadian Federal Government Invests Almost $1.4 Million to Assist Pork Industry

The Government of Canada is making sure Canadian families can identify Canadian pork products on grocery store shelves. Gary Schellenberger, Member of Parliament for Perth-Wellington, made the announcement Friday on behalf of the Federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. Read more

Funds Miss the Small Farmers Caring for Marginal But Environmentally Valuable Lands

EU funding programs that consider farmers only as food producers, neglect the environmental and social benefits they also provide. This is one of the main conclusions of a series of studies recently completed by WWF and the European Forum for Nature Conservation and Pastoralism, and presented in Brussels on 15 May. Read more

Getting to the Roots of Sunflower Cultivation

Global warming could affect one of the world’s major oil seed crops, the sunflower. Drawing on genetic information from early plant stocks is key to improving future harvests. This is the view of David Lentz, a professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Cincinnati in Ohio, who has been studying the origins of domesticated sunflowers since an initial sunflower discovery in Tabasco, Mexico, in 2000. Read more

Basic Food Crops Dangerously Vulnerable

As a deadly new strain of Black Stem Rust devastates wheat harvests across Africa and Arabia, and threatens the staple food supply of a billion people from Egypt to Pakistan, the areas where potentially crop and life-saving remnant wild wheat relatives grow are only minimally protected. Read more

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