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James Merchant and Robert Martin, eds. Public Health Impacts of Industrial Farm Animal Production. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. I served on the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production with both authors about 15 years ago and was happy to do a blurb for their book. This hard-hitting book defies meat industry pressure and obfuscation to document the devastating effects of its current production methods on the quality of air and water and on human health.
In the Beef Market Update this week, Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange and RealAgriculture’s Shaun Haney start the conversation with the good news that the U.S. fat cattle market in the south and in the north the live market, appears to be gaining some ground, coming off of the early September lows. That being. Read More In the Beef Market Update this week, Anne Wasko of Gateway Livestock Exchange and RealAgriculture’s Shaun Haney start the conversation with the good news that
The role of the John Innes Centre in supporting crop breeders and farmers has been recognised with a prestigious award for one of its leading wheat researchers. Dr Simon Griffiths, group leader at the John Innes Centre and programme lead for the Delivering Sustainable Wheat Institute Strategic Programme (ISP), is the 2024 winner of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) award for Science.
Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio. Host Shaun Haney is joined by Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange for the Beef Market Update. Haney is then joined by Saskatchewan Farmer and a recently-named Nuffield Scholar, Cherilyn Nagel, and Lyndsey Smith and Kelvin Heppner both with RealAgriculture. The panel discusses. Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Friday edition of RealAg Radio.
Turf grasses are essential for lawns, sports fields, parks, and golf courses. They provide aesthetic beauty, recreational spaces, and environmental benefits.
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Turf grasses are essential for lawns, sports fields, parks, and golf courses. They provide aesthetic beauty, recreational spaces, and environmental benefits.
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The challenges facing the food system are complex—but they’re solvable. During a Climate Week NYC event hosted by Food Tank and World Food Program USA, which was recorded on Food Tank’s YouTube channel , panelists made the case to a packed crowd that the future can be bright if we work hard to make it so. Optimism is not naivete, says Cary Fowler, U.S.
At his first Campus Conversations event as chancellor, Lyons also fielded questions about staff burnout, diversity and belonging on campus, and his family's move to University House with their dog, Winston. The post Chancellor Rich Lyons talks finances, rankings and ‘painting a picture’ of UC Berkeley’s future appeared first on Berkeley News.
Proposals are due November 12, 2024. Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) offers grants to farmers to explore new concepts in sustainable agriculture conducted through experiments, surveys, prototypes, on-farm demonstrations or other research and education techniques. The Farmer Grant program is open to all commercial farm business owners and farm employees in the Northeast region: Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Yo
Down the Road: Gavins Point Dam, completed in 1956 on the Missouri River, is part of a series of federal dams on the river aimed at flood control and other opportunities.
Adam Pfeffer has put a lot of thought into the new shop he’s just finished at his farm at Sparta, Ont. A cash crop farmer who runs a self-described “small to mid-sized” operation in southwestern Ontario, he also works as a market development manager for Bayer Crop Science. Growing up on the farm, Pfeffer’s wish.
You can’t make hay unless the sun is shining. If the Farm Bill is hay, and the sunshine is time left in Congress’s schedule, then the sunshine is waning for a new Farm Bill to be passed before the current The post Hay’s in the field and a storm is brewing: Another year without a new Farm Bill? appeared first on CalCAN - California Climate & Agriculture Network.
Pheronym Granted Patent for Plant-Parasitic Nematode Biocontrol Breakthrough Pheronym ® , an ag-biotech pest management company, has been granted its second US patent, this one focused on plant-parasitic nematode (PPN) biocontrol. The patent for Pherocoat™ will help address the pressing need for a natural, non-toxic approach to PPN control. According to The Fight against Plant-Parasitic Nematodes: Current Status of Bacterial and Fungal Biocontrol Agents, PPNs pose a major threat to food security
Recipients of the Discrimination Financial Assistance Program payments may need to report those to remain eligible for benefits from other government programs.
The AgSmart Educational Expo event hosted by Olds College of Agriculture & Technology will move under the AgriTrade Equipment Expo Group banner following a memorandum of understanding between the two entities signed earlier in September. AgSmart first started in partnership with Agri-Trade in 2019 as an initiative of Olds College. The summer event is a.
Minnesota Minute: Terminal offers 20,000 tons of fertilizer storage; cost-share for organic certification available; new leadership at Christensen Farms.
A new report compiled by researchers from UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, UC Berkeley, Food Insight Group, Berkeley Food Institute, and USDA documented the benefits to farmers and the environment from California’s investment in farm to school programs. The report shows that 57% of the farmers participating in the state’s Farm to School Incubator Grant Program made sales to schools between April and September 2023, representing an average of 33% of their total farm revenues.
Advanced Navigation, a world leader in navigation and autonomous systems, has announced the expansion of its versatile Certus range, with the new Mini series Available in three variants, the Certus Mini series includes a GNSS-aided Certus Mini D and Certus Mini N inertial navigation system (INS) , while Certus Mini A functions as an attitude and heading reference system (AHRS).
Our Friday Seminar on 4th October at 11:30am is Bi-directional signaling along the microbiome-root-shoot axis with Prof. Corné Pieterse, Utrecht University Location: Merton Auditorium and Zoom Speaker: Corné Pieterse.
650 grain workers at the Port of Vancouver have been on strike since Tuesday, and now, workers at the Port of Montreal have served 72-hour strike notice. These port strikes come just weeks after an unprecedented dual rail strike/lockout. Moving anything in or out of Canada — and especially grain — carries a huge question. Read More 650 grain workers at the Port of Vancouver have been on strike since Tuesday, and now, workers at the Port of Montreal have served 72-hour strike notice.
Much has transpired in the weed control world over the past 40 years and Brian Woolley has seen it all. With farming roots in Port Dover, Ont., the Syngenta Canada territory sales representative is getting ready to close the book on a 40-year career in weed control. In this interview with RealAgriculture’s Bernard Tobin, Woolley. Read More Much has transpired in the weed control world over the past 40 years and Brian Woolley has seen it all.
In the produce section of the IGA grocery store in Saint-Laurent, Quebec , a TV monitor shows customers, in real time, the roof of the store and farmers harvesting cucumbers that within an hour will be on store shelves. When the Food Industry Association asked Americans to list reasons why they buy local produce, 82 percent of those surveyed cited a desire for freshness.
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