Success in the field of agriculture and food chemistry requires motivation and tenacity, along with a sense of purpose to serve society. For agricultural chemists, creativity and innovation are key, ...

Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing global health challenges, and farms that use livestock manure as fertilizer ...

Pam Marrone, founder and chief executive officer of Davis-based Marrone Bio Innovations, has received the 2019 American Chemical Society Award for Innovation in Chemistry of Agriculture, sponsored by ...

The American Chemical Society Committee on Environment and Sustainability invited committee member Heidi Irrig, senior regulatory trade manager at Syngenta Crop Protection, to author this Comment for ...

The search for new crop protection chemicals was once described as trying to find a needle in a haystack. But that old cliché doesn’t work anymore. These days the process is harder than that. It’s ...

One of the ways to combat such problems is to improve the efficiency of agricultural crops, ensure food quality remains high and prevent unwanted spoilage or loss due to contamination. The analytical ...

Researchers are finding extraordinary new uses for what we throw away. Beet pulp may help crops resist disease, while ...

The Idaho Department of Agriculture says it wants to rid the river of invasive mussels for good, which hasn't been done ...

IN this modest booklet Prof. Wood sets out the practical exercises through which his students are expected to work during their course in the Cambridge School of Agriculture. It will be studied with ...

IN his introduction the author tells us that his book is intended as a course of laboratory practice for the use of students in agricultural chemistry. How much time does he suppose such students can ...

Research in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry highlights that the often-discarded tops of radishes are full of ...

To many people of the year 2010 the 1953 book, The Road to Abundance, is a heretical, nightmarish vision of the future. Chemicals and factory farming are seen as the logical next step in the evolution ...