Real Agriculture
AUGUST 22, 2024
Dr. Cheryl Waldner has been named the recipient of the 2024 Canadian Beef Industry Award for Outstanding Research and Innovation. Waldner received the award at the Canadian Beef Industry Conference, being held this week at Saskatoon, Sask. “Dr. Waldner’s work has no doubt improved the competitiveness and sustainability of the Canadian beef industry,” says Craig.
Food Tank
AUGUST 22, 2024
In his new book Against the Grain author and journalist Roger Thurow shows how farmers around the world are finding success by returning to regenerative agricultural practices. By farming in a way that works with nature, these producers are able to feed their communities, improve soil health, and restore biodiversity. Smallholder family farmers, Thurow tells Food Tank, are “on the front lines of this great collision of these two supreme imperatives of humanity: nourishing the planet and…at the
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Real Agriculture
AUGUST 22, 2024
When farmers set set their sights at higher target yields, one of the limiting factors is often soil fertility. Securing nitrogen fertilizer is costly and dependent on long supply chains. Genesis Fertilizers is looking to meet the nitrogen fertilizer needs of Canadian crops with a farmer-owned urea fertilizer plant planned for Belle Plaine, Sask. Currently, Read More When farmers set set their sights at higher target yields, one of the limiting factors is often soil fertility.
Food Politics
AUGUST 22, 2024
While I’m on the topic of AI—a hot issue in the food business—here are a few items I’ve collected recently. AI watch: The latest on artificial intelligence in food: While some fear artificial intelligence spells the end of humanity, others back its potential for positive disruption. How’s this playing out in food and drink? We bring you the latest…… Read more Study: AI-assisted personalized diet program supports weight loss and gut microbiome health: A dietary and lifestyle program tailored to
Agric4profits
AUGUST 22, 2024
Often times Pregnant women are encouraged to consume fruits and vegetables, This is because fruits and vegetables contain many of the nutrients needed during pr
ProAg
AUGUST 22, 2024
As price declines continue for corn and soybeans, return expectations are coming into focus and are expected to also be lower for the 2024 crop year. This will likely increase payments to farmers participating in crop insurance and commodity programs. This includes two increasingly popular coverage options: the Supplemental Coverage Option (SCO) and the Enhanced Coverage Option (ECO).
Agric4profits
AUGUST 22, 2024
Many people see watermelon as only a fruit that tastes delicious and fresh to consume, meanwhile it also proven to be very good for the body’s health and can
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Agric4profits
AUGUST 22, 2024
Tilapia fish farming is without a doubt one of the lucrative businesses in fish farming due to its numerous benefits and uses including different tilapia recipe
Berkeley Blog
AUGUST 22, 2024
In her new book Disabled Ecologies, UC Berkeley professor Sunaura Taylor returns to a Tucson Superfund site to document how residents organized one of the earliest and most successful environmental justice movements in the country. The post Can an aquifer be injured? Scholar brings a disability lens to ecological repair appeared first on Berkeley News.
Agric4profits
AUGUST 22, 2024
Pawpaw (Papaya) is one of the fruiting plants that originate in southern Mexico, and also comes from southern America.
Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast
AUGUST 22, 2024
I am starting to get questions about the RMA designations for our counties for the purposes of claiming insurance payments for crops that were affected by Debby. Some of you may have too. I have attached the RMA map showing direct and indirect counties for Debby.
Agwired
AUGUST 22, 2024
The world’s leading virtual fence company has brought its technology to U.S. ranchers and dairy farmers. Founded in New Zealand, Halter has become the world’s leading virtual fence company in revenue and volume of collars sold and is positioned to deliver its technology to the U.S. market. “Halter technology is a powerful system that helps users precisely manage pasture to lift the performance of the animals grazing it,” says Craig Piggott, Halter Founder and CEO.
Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast
AUGUST 22, 2024
The latest Drought Monitor shows that while there have been very slight improvements in dry conditions in the eastern part of the region, a lot of Alabama has been designated as abnormally dry (D0). There are also a couple of small areas on the east coast of Florida.
ATTRA
AUGUST 22, 2024
Applications are due by October 18, 2024. The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is accepting grant applications from commercial dairies and livestock operations for the installation of equipment and implementation of practices that result in long-term methane emissions reductions and maximize environmental co-benefits. CDFA is offering both of its flagship dairy and livestock methane reduction grants: the Alternative Manure Management Program (AMMP) and the Dairy Digester Rese
Far Eastern Agriculture
AUGUST 22, 2024
New Holland Agriculture North America will debut a range of new equipment and technology offerings at the upcoming 2024 Farm Progress Show taking place from 27-29 August scheduled to take place in Boone, Iowa From combines to high-horsepower tractors to round balers, the show will display more than 15 pieces of equipment from New Holland. For the first time in North America, the company will also unveil equipment and technology launches from across five product categories, including a new Class
ATTRA
AUGUST 22, 2024
Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) announced the 16 awardees in its Beginning Farmers Stipend program for 2024. This grant program provides stipends up to $5,000 for historically underserved farmers and ranchers who have been farming for less than three years. The fund has awarded at total of $75,000 to 16 grantees across nine states.
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 22, 2024
The federal government is invoking its authority under Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to put an end to the unprecedented shutdown of both of Canada’s national railways, less than a day after CN and CPKC locked out more than nine thousand workers who were otherwise set to go on strike a minute after.
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
AUGUST 22, 2024
NSAC members and staff visiting Big River Farms NSAC members gathered once again for our annual summer Coalition meeting, this time on the banks of the Mississippi River in Saint Paul, Minnesota on August 5-8, 2024. Over the course of the meeting, NSAC members and staff strategized collectively about current campaigns and future Coalition activities.
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 22, 2024
The trains are parked and picket lines are set up at railway yards, as the Canadian railway system has been shutdown by an unprecedented work stoppage. As of Thursday, August 22 at 00:01 Eastern time, both national railways — CN and CPKC — have locked out over nine thousand employees represented by the Teamsters Canada.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 22, 2024
In the summer of 2010, the 135-year-old Stinson’s sardine cannery in Prospect Harbor, Maine shuttered. “It was probably for good reason,” says Chris Sherman, CEO of Island Creek Oysters , an aquaculture business based in Duxbury, Massachusetts. The plant was no longer economically viable due to federal restrictions on herring catch. Stinson’s was one of the last remaining seafood canneries in Maine—and the last sardine cannery in the United States—marking the end of the country’s 120-year-long s
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 22, 2024
Thanks for tuning in to this special Thursday edition of RealAg Radio recorded LIVE from the Canadian Beef Industry Conference, brought to you by Canada Beef. Host Shaun Haney is joined by Eric Bienvenue, president of Canada Beef to discuss the role of Canada Beef and their goals. They are then joined by Nathan Phinney, Read More Thanks for tuning in to this special Thursday edition of RealAg Radio recorded LIVE from the Canadian Beef Industry Conference, brought to you by Canada Beef.
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