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Researchers look to wastewater treatment plants to recover dwindling phosphorus supplies
May 15, 2021Faculty member, Dr. Bo Hu and a team from the University of Minnesota work to develop a more cost effective and efficient way of recovering phosphorus from farm water runoff. Read the full story in the Star Tribune.
A technology race to stop the mass killing of baby chicks
June 2, 2021An estimated six billion newly hatched male chicks are killed world-wide every year. BBE Professor, Dr. Abdennour Abbas, is employing machine learning to try and identify differences in gasses released by male and female eggs.
BBE researchers develop new tool to help farmers make crop input decisions
July 15, 2021The new tool developed by BBE faculty allows farmers to create a budget balance sheet of any nitrogen reduction plans and see the economic and environmental cost, return and margins, all customized to fields under their management.