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Nurturing a Path to Success for Small, Sustainable Sheepherders

Food Tank

“He said, ‘I’ll help you with school, but my one stipulation is that you cannot take any animal science classes. Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ It had been such a bad run of finances that he said to just get out,” says Wahl. It does seem like a brighter future.”

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This Oregon Farmer Is Building a New Model for Indigenous Food and Agriculture

Civil Eats

In 2018, the farm expanded and moved to the current high-desert property, which, in addition to growing crops such as peppers, tomatoes, potatoes, garlic, and herbs, also houses an Indigenous seed bank and a new community kitchen called Niqi Native Kitchen. “I Spring Alaska Schreiner, owner of Sakari Farms outside Bend, Oregon.

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Precision Ag News 9/7

Agwired

This is the company’s largest single investment in its Crop Protection business in Germany since the founding of the Monheim campus in 1979. Its principal focus will be on developing the next generation of chemicals for a sustainable future and enhancing the environmental and human safety of Crop Protection.

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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app helped sell them.

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Their app, called Plantix, could near-instantaneously diagnose a crop pest or disease simply by looking at a photo of the plant. A farmer uses the Plantix app to diagnose crop pests and disease. The Streys had studied geography and soil science at Leibniz University Hannover in Germany. Something potentially very big.

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The Top 10 Careers in Agriculture

Farmbrite

This career field is as varied as the subject of agriculture itself is: there are dairy farmers, livestock ranchers, fruit growers, crop farmers, and organic farmers, just to name a few. Farmers are the people who grow crops and raise livestock, but they are also so much more.