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Precision Ag News 10/18

Agwired

billion this year to agricultural producers and landowners through its Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a critical piece of the Department’s efforts to support climate-smart agriculture and forestry on working lands. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has issued more than $1.77

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

Food Environment and Reporting Network

The company has replaced its trucks and tractors with mules and water buffalo and has vowed not to expand its operations into standing forest. ” In Spoor’s view, only sustained investment could lead to the cultivation of valuable crops like oil palm on all the degraded land we had passed. ” Doldourov asked.