WASHINGTON, March 21 -- Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, issued the following news release: Brown Has Long Fought For Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Today, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) accepted the Ohio Corn & Wheat Guardian Award from the Ohio Corn & Wheat Growers Association for his leadership in advocating for Ohio grain farmers. Brown has long fought to expand market for sustainable fuels for Ohio farmers. "Ohio is leading the way in creating the fuel of the future and helping to power the wor  more

TOPEKA, Kansas, March 21 -- The Kansas Department of Agriculture issued the following news release: The Kansas Department of Agriculture has announced the result of the elections held for the state's five grain commodity commissions -- corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, sunflowers and wheat -- in districts I, II and III in the central region of the state. Grain commodity commissions serve the Kansas agriculture industry by managing their crop's research promotion and education programs funded with  more

BASEL, Switzerland, March 23 -- Precision Agriculture, a peer-reviewed journal that says it provides a forum for advancing precision farming, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 25, Issue 2): * Spectroscopic determination of chlorophyll content in sugarcane leaves for drought stress detection * Forecasting carrot yield with optimal timing of Sentinel 2 image acquisition * Explainable machine learning for revealing causes of citrus fruit cracking  more

WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement on March 19, 2024: * * * Today, on National Agriculture Day, Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement: "As a lifelong Oklahoman, I know firsthand just how important our farmers, producers, growers, and ranchers are. "In fact, Oklahoma ranks first in the nation in the production of rye, third in the nation in the production of wheat, fifth in the production of cattle, sixth in the productio  more

WESTPORT, Connecticut, March 20 -- Save the Children, an organization that says it is giving children a healthy start in life, opportunity to learn and protection from harm, issued the following news release on March 18, 2024: Children and families in northern Gaza are just weeks away from famine, according to data released today by leading experts on food insecurity and malnutrition, with some of the thresholds needed to declare a famine already exceeded. New data from the global initiative o  more

BASEL, Switzerland, March 23 -- Theoretical and Applied Genetics, a journal that says it features plant genetics, genomics and biotechnology, published research articles on the following topics in its April 2024 edition (Vol. 137, Issue 4): * Quantitative trait loci detection for three tiller-related traits and the effects on wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yields * Molecular mechanisms and regulation of recombination frequency and distribution in plants * Unveiling synergistic QTLs associated w  more