Success in the field of agriculture and food chemistry requires motivation and tenacity, along with a sense of purpose to serve society. For agricultural chemists, creativity and innovation are key, ...

FORMERLY agricultural chemistry was one of three main subjects in courses on agriculture, but to-day increasing specialization inside the industry itself has been accompanied by a multiplication in ...

MADISON - The longtime space crunch for students taking chemistry classes will finally begin to ease in a couple of years, the famous but antiquated Babcock Dairy Hall is getting a big addition and ...

Pam Marrone, founder and chief executive officer of Davis-based Marrone Bio Innovations, has received the 2019 American Chemical Society Award for Innovation in Chemistry of Agriculture, sponsored by ...

TEACHERS at agricultural schools and colleges are placed in the difficult position of having to teach a branch of applied chemistry to pupils who have little time, and often less inclination, to study ...

One of the ways to combat such problems is to improve the efficiency of agricultural crops, ensure food quality remains high and prevent unwanted spoilage or loss due to contamination. The analytical ...

The American Chemical Society Committee on Environment and Sustainability invited committee member Heidi Irrig, senior regulatory trade manager at Syngenta Crop Protection, to author this Comment for ...

The search for new crop protection chemicals was once described as trying to find a needle in a haystack. But that old cliché doesn’t work anymore. These days the process is harder than that. It’s ...

Philosophers of science use the term "paradigm shift" to describe scientific breakthroughs that question the basic assumptions of a science especially when an old concept fails to predict important ...