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Herbicide Tolerant Camelina Supports Large Acre Production

Agwired

AUGUST 3, 2023

Yield10 Bioscience announces positive results in the first field test of stacked herbicide tolerance (“HT”) traits in Camelina, which will help support grower adoption for the biofuel feedstock market by enabling weed control and increased access to acreage previously treated with Group 2 herbicides.

Acre

Acre Biofuel Production Crop Rotation

The Kelp Business is Booming. How Big is Too Big?

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 15, 2023

A quick taste test proves it true: Their crop is ready to harvest. Now seen as a “future-proof” material, seaweed is a hardy, fast-growing protein source useful for everything from biofuel to petroleum-free plastic to consumer goods like utensils , soap , clothing , and of course, food. It’s also relatively cheap.

Cultivation

Cultivation Harvesting Harvest Harvester

EarthDaily Agro on Renewable Fuel Alternatives

World Agri-Tech

MARCH 12, 2024

Meet camelina, an oilseed crop harvested today primarily across Europe and North America. Although not widely known, camelina is a crop with immense potential as a feedstock for sustainable biofuel. Worldwide, millions camelina opportunity acres exist. What makes camelina so promising is its ease of adoption for growers.

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Biofuel Crop Yield Supply Chain

An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Farms Adapt to Climate Change

Agritecture Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

In the States, Sorghum is currently used mainly for creating biofuels and feeding livestock, but incorporating it into the American diet could have a long-lasting positive impact on our environment. During a normal year, he typically harvests about 150 bushels per acre of corn. Last year, he averaged only 22 per acre.

Grain

Grain Farming Farming Biofuel

PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In late 2021, the Maine DEP identified 60 sites where 10,000 cubic yards of biosolids were applied as fertilizer with homes within half an acre of the application, a practice the agency called “Tier 1” because it presented the highest risk to human health. The spreading of sludge as fertilizer remains legal in all U.S.

Farming

Farming Farming Farmland Crop

Almonds are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Modern Farmer

JULY 14, 2023

As Brian Paddock walks through his 12-and-a-half acres of almond trees, he’s taking in everything. Treehouse Almonds sources nuts from roughly 50,000 acres in California’s Central Valley, and Gardiner’s family farm provides about 20,000 of them. Plus, there are multiple uses for each nut harvested. And guess what it replaces?

Orchard

Orchard Crop Family Farming Farming

Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

Harvesting in a spot that’s accessible fewer than 20 days per year, during negative tides, Welcome pulled a long strand of alaria, a golden ruffled kelp, from the riffles. A variety of seaweed harvested from the Gulf of Maine, including sugar kelp, sea lettuce, dulse, bladderwrack, and Irish moss.

Science

Science Harvesting Harvest Harvester

Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 13, 2023

These entities will pass most of the money on to tens of thousands of farmers, ranchers, and forest owners, including growers who manage thousands of acres and underserved and disadvantaged farmers who often have much smaller operations. This spring, the Biden administration began allocating $3.1 But it should be.

Agriculture

Agriculture Agriculture Greenhouse Manure

Industry Ag News 3/1

Agwired

MARCH 1, 2024

Craig Curry, 70, a Protect The Harvest advisor since 2013, succumbed to a lengthy battle with health issues on Feb. Elite Octane — a leader in the biofuel industry, producing 150 million gallons of bioethanol annually — joined the nation’s leading biofuel trade associations, the Renewable Fuels Association and Growth Energy.

Rural Development

Rural Development Biofuel Vertical Farming Ruralism

A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JULY 5, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. Each acre of mature trees is supposed to be pollinated by two honeybee colonies.

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Harvesting Harvest Harvester Orchard

The whole dam truth

Food Environment and Reporting Network

APRIL 25, 2024

slide-intro --> The ranching industry’s toxic grass problem By Robert Langellier , March 27, 2024 Buzzkill By Dan Charles , December 18, 2023 How mushrooms can prevent megafires By Stephen Robert Miller , July 10, 2023 A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley.

Orchard

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming

The deep roots of Mexico’s trade dispute with U.S. over GMO corn

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 21, 2022

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. Each acre of mature trees is supposed to be pollinated by two honeybee colonies.

Orchard

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming

Trouble at sea

Food Environment and Reporting Network

JANUARY 11, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. Each acre of mature trees is supposed to be pollinated by two honeybee colonies.

Orchard

Orchard Acre Pesticide Farming

A chilling effect: How farms can help pollinators survive the stress of climate change

Food Environment and Reporting Network

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

slide-intro --> A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. million acres of the Central Valley. million acres of almond trees bearing nuts and another 300,000 acres of trees still too young to need pollination. Each acre of mature trees is supposed to be pollinated by two honeybee colonies.

Farming

Farming Farming Orchard Acre

A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 31, 2024

To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one Indigenous leader called an act of “eco-genocide.” He marveled at the efficiency of the African oil palm, which can produce five times as much edible oil per acre as corn or soy.

Plantation

Plantation Acre Cultivation Crop

Agriculture Informer

Herbicide Tolerant Camelina Supports Large Acre Production

The Kelp Business is Booming. How Big is Too Big?

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EarthDaily Agro on Renewable Fuel Alternatives

An Ancient Grain Made New Again: How Sorghum Could Help U.S. Farms Adapt to Climate Change

PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Almonds are Under Threat. The Key to Saving Them Could Be in the Soil

Climate savior or ‘Monsanto of the sea’?

Can Biden’s climate-smart agriculture program live up to the hype?

Industry Ag News 3/1

A remote Alaska village depended on the snow crab harvest for survival. Then billions of crabs died.

The whole dam truth

The deep roots of Mexico’s trade dispute with U.S. over GMO corn

Trouble at sea

A chilling effect: How farms can help pollinators survive the stress of climate change

A palm oil company, a group of U.S. venture capitalists, and the destruction of Peru’s rainforest

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