News, Highlights & Events

For over 40 years, a committee of land-grant university researchers, Extension specialists, and industry and international partners has worked to advance the design and operation of controlled environments such as growth chambers and greenhouses. Optimizing controlled environments is key to ensuring crop production, especially in the face of climate change and population growth. Controlled environments are also essential for research and education.

DETECTING THORNS — Scientists’ pinpointing of the genetic locus for blackberry’s thorny trait is a step toward more efficient selection for thornlessness.

With a significant portion of the population in the United States eligible for GLP-1s to lose weight, agricultural economists are studying what sectors of the food and beverage industry can be impacted the most.

No fiber? No problem: New enzyme technology could boost fiber intake in processed foods

Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily bodily rhythms

A video introduction to agInnovation about participating in the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI) in January-February 2025.

The innovation team at UC Agriculture and Natural Resources is hosting a national Farm Robotics Challenge. Register until January 17, 2025.

Chair Steve Lommel (North Carolina State University) delivered the FY 2026 research funding priorities for agInnovation at the 2024...

Nationwide coyote surveys highlight how hunting by humans may increase, rather than reduce, local coyote numbers.

Evidence is building that regenerative agriculture boosts soil health, which, in turn, could bolster food security (Alix Soliman, Nature)

agInnovation 10-year Research Roadmap outlines focus areas in sustainable food systems, climate solutions, and water resiliency.

University of Nevada, Reno researchers find hemp hulls may promote growth, diversity of gut biome

A new 10-year Agricultural Research Roadmap was unveiled in Washington, D.C.

$7M USDA-NIFA-SCRI grant supports effort to improve grape disease resistance, quality

agInnovation's 10-year Agricultural Research Roadmap will be featured as part of the 2024 NCFAR Lunch-N-Learn series.

The first high-resolution forest canopy cover dataset for an entire state, providing valuable insights for forest management and conservatio

Project to explore crop row orientation and cover cropping strategies Article by Nick Gosling, UNH College of Life Sciences and...

Spurred by climate change demands, three-year field trial identifies high-production varieties

Land-grant universities in the Northeast are working cooperatively to address the growing problem of vector-borne diseases.

Southern region land-grant universities are working on precision breeding of sugarcane (via Southern Region Communications Consortium)

A research team in the Montana State University College of Agriculture has received $4 million in new funding