Articles Tagged with ''University of Missouri''

The Agriculture Department has awarded 12 organizations and universities more than $3.2 million to create antimicrobial resistance dashboards.

A new study from USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service shows SARS-CoV-2, the virus at the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic, was "transmitted from humans to deer, mutated, and potentially transmitted back to humans."

More and more residents of rural America are working in industries outside of agriculture, a new report concludes.

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack says the handful of funding recipients for USDA’s Partnerships for Climate Smart Commodities Program he announced Tuesday should provide a framework for a broader rollout in two weeks.

Even as some states and USDA invest millions of dollars in expanding medium and small-scale meat processing, a new economic analysis cautions against seeing this development as insulation against the next “black swan” event, which is how the researchers describe the pandemic.

Department of Agriculture officials increased soybean and corn yields which helped push ending stocks projections higher in Tuesday's World Agriculture Supply and Demand Estimates report.

Researchers with the AI Institute for Resilient Agriculture are using data from a variety of sensors and artificial intelligence to create “digital twins” of corn plants that, through analysis, can lead to a better understanding of their real-life counterparts.

Farmers' financial earnings are expected to increase this year, but fewer government payments and increased production costs will likely offset higher cash receipts, USDA's Economic Research Service said Thursday in its Farm Sector Income forecast.

Congress should be careful to avoid overbuilding processing capacity and instituting prescriptive marketing requirements as it studies its response to a pair of turbulent years in the beef industry, witnesses told a House Agriculture subcommittee Wednesday morning.