Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Apr. 30—To the lingering question of what to do with woody ag waste and other forms of Central Valley biomass, carbon scientists ...
A new study presented at ASM Microbe 2026 demonstrates that a valuable indigenous mushroom, Lentinus squarrosulus, can be cultivated under controlled conditions using locally available agricultural ...
A chipper shreds a Fresno County orchard to make room for a recharge project. (photo: Department of Water Resources) With its ban on open agricultural burning, California has few options left for the ...
When we think about agriculture, we often focus on the end product: cotton for a t-shirt, hay destined to feed animals through the winter, or hamburgers for our summer barbecues. However, after we ...
Scientists have developed a sustainable method to make high-performance plastics from agricultural leftovers, turning them into valuable materials. In our rapidly industrialized world, the quest for ...
May 14, 2019 — When we pick up a piece of fruit, bar of chocolate or package of flour, we don’t often think of the massive amounts of agricultural waste — the stems, leaves, seed pods and more — that ...
The shift away from using poultry litter for crop fertilization has transformed this once-valuable agricultural byproduct into an environmental liability for poultry producers. Addressing this ...
It's worth noting that lactic acid production may just be the start; other downstream fermentation products may be able to make further use of the abundance of lignocellulose from various agricultural ...