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The Role of Data in Modern Farming: Separating Fact from Fiction

Farmbrite

The Precision Farmer Case Study One inspiring case is a midwestern farmer who adopted drone technology and IoT sensors across their 500-acre corn farm. If processing the information or making these changes is too big a hurdle for you it won't be useful. Biotechnology Biotechnology will work hand-in-hand with data-driven farming.

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Op-Ed: Biologicals 2.0: Why Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes Are Concerning

Food Tank

On a summer day in downtown Salinas, California, a group of farmers, biotechnology start-ups and pesticide corporations gathered to talk about the benefits of biology. An application of GE bacteria could release 3 trillion genetically modified organisms every half an acre that’s about how many GE corn plants there are in the entire U.S.

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Climate Solutions for the Future of Coffee

Civil Eats

Or harvests are compressed into a two-week period, and the coffee mills can’t handle the tsunami of cherries waiting to be processed. million acres of shade-grown coffee, much of it bordering protected natural areas. To bring out its best flavors, robusta must be processed, roasted, and brewed differently from arabica.

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Industry Ag News 3/29

Agwired

million acres of corn in 2024, down 5% from last year, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). million acres in 2024, up 3% from last year. Producers surveyed across the United States intend to plant 90.0 Soybean growers intend to plant 86.5

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

If Congress does not come together this year to enact a bipartisan farm bill, the legislative process will begin anew in the 119th Congress. AMPI) Association of Equipment Manufacturers Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies Austin Chapter 10 IWLA BASF Corporation Bass Anglers Sportsman Society (B.A.S.S.)

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From Commodification to Conservation: Restoring Agrobiodiversity through Seed Breeding – Part I: 

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

The Corporate Consolidation of Seed Breeding Over the past decades, we have seen a hyper consolidation of the seed market with over 50% of seed sales coming from companies that are owned by four large biotechnology corporations. per planted acre of seed in 1990 paid $93.48 Source: Philip H.

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Inside Bayer’s State-by-State Efforts to Stop Pesticide Lawsuits

Civil Eats

Harris represents Soda Springs, where Bayer operates a 540-acre processing plant to manufacture glyphosate. Back in Iowa, groups including the Agribusiness Association of Iowa and the Iowa Biotechnology Association have lobbied for the immunity bill. From there, he went to work on government lobbying at Monsanto.

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