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Cultivating Profits in a Compact Crop

Modern Farmer

Basements and garages have long been fertile ground for innovation, with a host of well-known companies including Apple, Amazon and Harley-Davidson tracing back to humble residential roots. With arable land at a premium— urban sprawl is a growing threat to the farming region—“I’m lucky to have a big yard,” says Mateo.

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GroundWork BioAg announces launch of the Rootella Carbon program

World Agri-Tech

Groundwork BioAg announced the global launch of the Rootella Carbon program, based on mycorrhizal carbon – a frontier technology that leverages mycorrhizal fungi as a nature-based solution for carbon dioxide removal.

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WILD SCIENCE FICTION

The Lunatic Farmer

The whole of the cow milk industry, for example, will start to collapse once modern food technologies have replaced the proteins in a bottle of milk—just 3.3 In some markets, only a small percentage of the ingredients need to be replaced for an entire product to be disrupted. percent of its content. Before we reach this point, the U.S.

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Colorado’s Groundwater Experiment

Civil Eats

The breadth of the problem prompted President Biden’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology to issue a warning in December, calling the crisis “an all-hands-on-deck moment for groundwater sustainability.” more reliant on imports. But applying the same approach to water is tricky.

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Transforming the Baltic and North Seas with Algae-Based Solutions

Food Tank

Algae also offer environmental benefits: The organisms can capture carbon dioxide from the environment, acting as a carbon sink , according to the Carbon Capture Science & Technology journal. They also don’t require arable land or freshwater; they grow in abundance on land and by sea.

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Revolutionizing Agriculture Through Artificial Intelligence

World Agri-Tech

So, as AI technologies advance, what impacts will they have on agri-food value chains? With nearly one-third of the worlds arable land under agriculture, AI has the potential to revolutionize food production at scale. In agriculture, AI and GenAI catalyze new solutions to farmers economic and environmental challenges.