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3 weeks ago | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
Egg prices, having soared for the past few months, are finally starting to show signs of decreasing. Their shelf prices shot up dramatically due to a variety of factors, but mostly from the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), commonly known as bird flu.
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2 months ago | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
Do you own a drone? If yes, the odds that it was made by DJI are high — the Chinese-based company is the dominant presence in the drone sector, accounting for about 80 percent of all drones in the U.S. and 70 percent globally. The company supplies drones for a wide array of applications, from hobbyist photography, business logistics to deliver packages, and in the agricultural sector through spray drones.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
Christmas tree growers nurture family memories and the tradition that comes with picking out a real tree each year. When the holiday season gets into full swing, people across the United States begin searching for just the right centerpiece to display in their home: a Christmas tree.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
In spring 2024, dozens across the nation enthusiastically opened boxes filled with a plethora of crop items — soil probes, a weighing scale, protocol worksheets, seeds, and even some plant seedlings. These volunteers set to work designing research plots, sowing their seeds, and began logging observations about what they grew. These plants were part of a civic science research initiative known as the Perennial Atlas Project, spearheaded by The Land Institute, a nonprofit based in Kansas.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
Colorado has more than 200 different specialty plates available to residents, but in its 150-year-long history, the state had never had an agriculture-themed one. Finally in 2024, one has arrived. The Logan County Cattlewomen, an affiliate of the Colorado Cattlewomen, collected over 4,000 signatures and had gotten a bill sponsored by a bipartisan group of politicians to create an agricultural-themed specialty license plate.
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May 29, 2024 | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
As the farmer market season kicks off, one Colorado farm is taking things a step further by not just selling their produce at a market but preparing their produce into delicious meals at their newly acquired food truck, The Schlop Stop. Sunburn Farms, managed by Michael Myrbeck, Shaun Burns, and Jacob Downey, launched a food truck in spring 2024 and serve weekly specials from the farm alongside locally sourced food.
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May 1, 2024 | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
I wrote the intro to this using ChatGPT. Just kidding. But in today’s modern technology and advanced computation, using AI to write an introductory paragraph for an article is not only very possible, it’s even being done with more frequency across media. What’s also possible (though far less frequent) is the marriage of AI and stereo vision cameras, which is a camera that can simulate images the way your eyes do, in 3D instead of flat.
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Mar 28, 2024 | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
Farming has never been an easy job — with unpredictable weather conditions, extensive labor requirements, and an ever-changing consumer market, farmers have a plethora of challenges to overcome to ensure their livelihood. Another emerging challenge is navigating societal concerns about climate change — as the world wrangles with carbon emissions, many are looking toward farmers and agriculture as a potential avenue to reduce their carbon footprint.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
As the agricultural sector struggles with an aging workforce, the recruitment and retention of agricultural workers is more important than ever. One demographic that is having greater influence on the sector is women, who made up 36 percent of total farmers, according to the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Census of Ag data. Though farming has historically been male-dominated, women are entering the agricultural workforce more than ever before.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
agdaily.com | Liza Thuy Nguyen
Composting is nothing new in rural communities, but the practice is becoming more popular as and a growing number of people in urban and suburban areas are seeking ways to reduce and recycle food waste. Composting — defined as controlled, aerobic (oxygen-required) biological decomposition of organic materials by microorganisms — dates to the Mesopotamian era, when farmers spread manure on their fields to improve their crops.
