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The Business Behind the Farm Visit

Modern Farmer

The first year, deer ate two acres of strawberries while Topaz and Abeles were sleeping. Across the country, millions of acres of farmland have been lost over the last 30 years, due to development and other forms of land conversion. What is a fertilized egg? This was coupled with other mishaps that often befall small farms.

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Precision Ag News 1/10

Agwired

Crop Nutrition Week returns February 5-9 with more experts, more insights, more fertilizer management strategies and more prizes to win. Now in its second year, Crop Nutrition Week 2024 is a free week of self-paced virtual learning that aims to help growers elevate every acre, using data to make critical decisions.

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Unable to muscle Mexico City into reversing course, the US trade representative, Katherine Tai, last August lodged a formal complaint with the secretariat of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). It alleges that Mexico’s decree constitutes a trade violation that infringes on the superseding rights of US farmers and biotechnology companies.

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The Solution to Water Woes Could Lie With Beavers

Modern Farmer

It’s been a decent year at the 200,000-acre spread, with enough forage for the 2,000 mother cows and their calves. Other pastures on the 200,000-acre ranch—an area larger than New York City’s five boroughs—are traversed by the Susie and Maggie creeks that, thankfully, provide a year-round source of water. This wasn’t always the case.

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