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Epigenetic factors are identified as key to reducing 
crop losses because of rain and high humidity

Researchers at the University of McGill believe they are a step closer to understanding what causes pre-harvest sprouting (PHS) in cereals, a phenomenon that costs the global wheat industry as much as $1 billion annually. Scientists have until recently focused on genetic factors and on the interaction between genotypes and the environment in the effort

Adults who move to farming areas where they experience a wider range of environmental exposures than in cities may reduce the symptoms of their hypersensitivities and allergies considerably. This is the result of new research from Aarhus University published in the online periodical The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. Researchers found that the immune

British farmland prices have tripled in the last decade and are set to rise further, according to a report in the U.K. Farmers Weekly. Quoting the RICS rural land market survey, it says that during the first six months of this year, farmland prices jumped to £7,440/acre (C$12,180) across the U.K. In 2004 land prices