Most Recent Articles from Agricultural Research

• Edible fungus could help address vitamin A deficiency 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to the World Health Organization, vitamin A deficiency is a major public health concern in more than half of all...

  05/01/09 by Jan Suszkiw · More from publication

• New vitamin mix gives farmed fish vim and vigor 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Just like people, fish need their daily quota of vitamins. For instance, one of America's most popular farmed fish,...

  05/01/09 by Marcia Wood · More from publication

• Luscious lychee: scientists find keys to plentiful, predictable harvests 

  [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Many plants prosper in Hawaii's mild, sunny climate. The long list of contented species includes lychee, or Litchi...

  05/01/09 by Marcia Wood · More from publication

• Cotton bests other spray-on erosion-control mulches 

  Agricultural Research Service agricultural engineer Greg Holt helped develop the erosion-control industry's first cotton hydromulch "spray-on...

  05/01/09 by Don Comis · More from publication

• Just a few queens started U.S. fire ant population 

  A study suggests that the current U.S. population of red imported fire ants can be traced back to as few as 9 to 20 mated queens that were...

  05/01/09 · More from publication

• Paper mill waste may be just right for reclaiming mineland 

  Paper mill waste can safely be applied at a rate three times higher than typical rates to reclaim soils of surface-coal-mined areas. Paper mill...

  05/01/09 · More from publication

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