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 ...

Not only has the University of Portsmouth figured out a way to make soap from straw and other agricultural waste, but the process uses bacteria to create the soap. Dr. Pattanathu Rahman, a Portsmouth ...

After working on farms around the world, Sean Coronis had seen his fair share of “drip tape,” the plastic tubing used for irrigation in most large farms. Drip tape, also referred to as “t-tape” or ...

Professor Chris Simmons, with the UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology, is testing biosolarization on 10 acres of almonds in Chico, California. Farmers spend a lot of time and money ...

Agricultural waste is one of the most important components of sustainable farming practices. It includes crop residues, livestock waste, and agro-industrial by-products. Despite its potential, it ...

Although great strides are being made in the field of lab-grown meat, the stuff is still quite expensive to produce. A new 3D-printing ink could help, while also making use of agricultural waste that ...

Spinnova’s technology for creating fiber from cellulose is a 2019 World Changing Ideas Award Winner. It could stop the bad environmental effects of cotton production. Your future T-shirts might be ...

Researchers at the Argentine National Institute for Industrial Technology (INTI) are taking a new approach to the manufacture of natural dyes from agricultural waste. The method involves extraction of ...

University of Delaware senior Aidan Gensure knew he was interested in engineering when he came to UD. But the University helped him discover another passion — food science — during a Fundamentals of ...