Real Agriculture
JANUARY 16, 2024
If a report is quietly published on a government website on the Friday before the New Year’s weekend and no one is told about it, is anyone supposed to read it or respond to it? Because that’s what happened with the federal government’s “What We Heard” report after holding consultations a year ago on its.
NASDA
JANUARY 22, 2024
Press Release ARLINGTON, Va. – NASDA members, the state commissioners, secretaries and directors of agriculture, have chosen five issues to serve as the organization’s primary policy focus for 2024. They include the 2024 Farm Bill , food safety , labor reform , pesticide regulation and PFAS. NASDA CEO Ted McKinney remarked on the gravity of these issues for 2024.
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USDA Blog
JANUARY 30, 2024
Jordyn Ash, a sophomore at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University (FAMU) in Tallahassee, is a USDA 1890 National Scholar studying plant and soil sciences. Ash applied to the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program during her senior year of high school. She recalls guidance counselors providing excellent summaries of different scholarship opportunities, but she decided that the USDA 1890 National Scholars Program offered the best fit for her career aspirations.
Food Tank
JANUARY 16, 2024
This winter, Food Tank is highlighting 20 book to help you broaden your understanding of food and agriculture systems. In Barons , Austin Frerick focuses on the careers of seven corporate titans who altered the U.S. food system. Generation Dread offers a new perspective for readers grappling with climate anxiety. And What if CAFOs Were History? offers a vision of an agriculture system that is regenerative and free of factory farming systems.
Food Tank
JANUARY 2, 2024
The Christmas holidays in the United States are nothing compared to the celebrations in Mexico. And even less so compared to those in the indigenous southern state of Oaxaca, where I’m lucky enough to be spending the holidays. Schools and government offices closed December 15 and continue until January 8. The celebrations are non-stop. Religious and civic processions known as calendas , with giant puppets and marching bands, shut down traffic.
Food Politics
JANUARY 3, 2024
Just before the Christmas holidays, Senator Bernie Sanders (Ind-VT), who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee , held a hearing: What is Fueling the Diabetes Epidemic? The Senator’s Tweet: Some of the quotes from the Senator’s remarks are amazing. They need to be said, loud and clear: Why is the number of children in America today who have Type 2 diabetes estimated to skyrocket by nearly 700% over the next four decades?
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has approved 3-Nitrooxypropanol, known as 3NOP, for use in Canada. 3NOP is a livestock feed ingredient aimed at reducing methane emissions from cattle. The Canadian Cattle Association (CCA) says that it and the National Cattle Feeders’ Association (NCFA) have consistently advocated for new innovations such as methane-reducing feed ingredients to.
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NASDA
JANUARY 31, 2024
News Article The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is excited to congratulate three staff members on their recent promotions. On the policy team, Stephanie McBath has been promoted to director of public policy and Josie Montoney-Crawford has been promoted to associate director of public policy. On the trade team, Blake Ramsey has been promoted to director of trade shows.
Agricultural Biodiversity
JANUARY 23, 2024
Jeremy’s latest newsletter summarizes a summary of a roundup of rotation research from northern China. Bottom line: more crops better. Anthropocene Magazine has a handy summary of recent research into crop diversity on the North China Plain. Bottom line: adding more crops to the current dominant rotation of wheat and maize increases yields and profits, sequesters more carbon in the soil and reduces overall greenhouse gas emissions.
AgWeb Farm Journal
JANUARY 30, 2024
You break, you pay. Fighting to save his farmland, Marvin Houin proved the government destroyed his yields.
Food Politics
JANUARY 24, 2024
A reader from Phoenix, AZ, Maria Zafonte, sends this from a local Safeway: From her standpoint—and mine—this is a great way to encourage overeating. As she explained, if she bought just one bag of chips, each would cost $5.99. But if she bought four, the unit cost was only $1.97 each. As she put it: The problem is what am I going to do with four bags of Doritos??
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 22, 2024
Sweat the details and practice, practice, practice. It may sound like gridiron football strategy but it will also make farmers winners in the battle to improve soil health, says North Dakota-based independent agronomist and crop consultant Lee Briese. When it comes to improving soil health there are plenty of fixes — from reducing tillage to. Read More Sweat the details and practice, practice, practice.
Food and Farming Technology
JANUARY 18, 2024
The DLG (German Agricultural Society) has announced the launch of 'FarmRobotix' as part of its DLG Feldtage (DLG Field Days) exhibition taking place in Erwitte, Germany from the 11th to 13th June 2024
Civil Eats
JANUARY 18, 2024
Herlinda Huipe and her husband Carmelo Rojas operate Tierra HR Organic Farm on California’s Central Coast. It’s small, so they both still work part time on larger farms, primarily picking strawberries. But the couple has recently hit a milestone: During their busiest harvest days, they’ve had to hire people to help with their celery crop. “They are people who are really fast at cutting it,” Rojas said, “and we pay them as contractors.
Agricultural Biodiversity
JANUARY 28, 2024
Which crop biodiversity is used by the food industry throughout the world? A first evidence for legume species. Mainly soy, alas. Which is bad because… Diversified agriculture leads to diversified diets: panel data evidence from Bangladesh. …promoting diversified farming systems and market participation is good for women’s empowerment and better diets.
Agri-tech
JANUARY 4, 2024
Gene-editing techniques have helped to identify a temperature tolerance factor that may protect wheat from the increasingly unpredictable challenges of climate change. Researchers in the group of Professor Graham Moore at the John Innes Centre made the discovery during experiments looking at wheat fertility in plants exposed to either high or low temperatures.
Food Politics
JANUARY 18, 2024
I think it’s time to start a new “of the week” series of posts—this one on egregiously marketed food products. Thanks to Jerry Mande, who sent me this email: Are you writing about Veggie Cheerios ? An especially egregious case of misleading marketing. This could be Rob Califf’s Citrus Hill Fresh Choice moment. Particularly troubling is that original Cheerios, a go to finger food for moms of infants and toddlers, is lower sugar and higher in fiber than Veggie Cheerios – which only have 2g sugar
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 12, 2024
Diversity pays dividends in crop production but researchers, agronomists and farmers really don’t have a good grasp of how and why different crops impact each others in the rotation. University of Guelph crop researcher Dr. Dave Hooker is never shy to champion more diverse rotations. Research from long-term trials at the University of Guelph’s Ridgetown.
Food and Farming Technology
JANUARY 16, 2024
Today John Deere has entered into an agreement with SpaceX to utilise its Starlink satellite internet constellation as part of the John Deere SATCOM solution.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 29, 2024
Tim Kohlhauff remembers the days when his hometown of Spokane, Washington was in zone 5b on the Plant Hardiness Zone Map. When he was growing up, daisies, rhododendrons, and azaleas were always teetering on the edge of viability, the winter conditions often just a bit too chilly for their liking. But all that has changed in recent decades, says Kohlhauff, a Master Gardener and a Horticulture Coordinator at Washington State University.
Agricultural Biodiversity
JANUARY 9, 2024
Why seedbanks matter. But are they hyperlocal ? Why local rice varieties matter in Bangladesh. Why millet matters for climate resilience. Why taro matters in Hawaii. Why EU seed laws matter. Why diversification of food systems matters. Among other things.
AgWeb Farm Journal
JANUARY 9, 2024
Removal of the 84 turbines constructed 10 years ago without a mining permit from the Osage Nation ends a long legal battle and will cost the developers $300 million.
Food Politics
JANUARY 12, 2024
I’m just getting around to reading this report from three groups in the UK: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) and the Alcohol Health Alliance (AHA): Holding us back: tobacco, alcohol and unhealthy food and drink. I learned about it from an article in The Guardian : The report gives the health statistics: 13% of adults in England smoke, 21% drink above the recommended drinking guidelines, and 64% are overweight or living with obesity, NOTE: this report—unlike
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 22, 2024
Agriculture leader Mary Robinson has been named to the Senate of Canada, representing Prince Edward Island. Robinson is currently the vice-president of the World Farmers’ Organisation and is a managing partner of the Robinson Group of Companies, a 6th-generation farm and agribusiness in Prince Edward Island. She is the past president of the Canadian Federation.
Food and Farming Technology
JANUARY 12, 2024
Morse Micro, a leading Wi-Fi HaLow silicon vendor, and Zetifi, an innovator in last-mile connectivity for vehicles, machinery and farms, have announced a partnership to enhance Zetifi's remote-area co
Civil Eats
JANUARY 9, 2024
It has been 10 years since Ron Finley, the self-proclaimed “Gangsta Gardener,” changed the trajectory of his life with a TED Talk about food apartheid in his community, South Central Los Angeles. The talk has been viewed nearly 5 million times since then, and one of its most memorable lines—“Growing your own food is like printing your own money”—has since become the seed of Finley’s burgeoning philanthropic work.
Western FarmPress
JANUARY 23, 2024
Corn and soybeans to make minor acreage swaps in 2024 while wheat acres await moisture outlooks.
Agri-tech
JANUARY 31, 2024
Dr Philippa Borrill explains the value of gene editing as a tool for developing more nutritious, sustainable and resilient wheat, in a new series of Royal Society videos featuring Professor Brian Cox. John Innes Centre Group leader, Philippa outlines the case for this game-changing technology, in the latest instalment of Brian Cox School Experiment videos.
Food Politics
JANUARY 2, 2024
A press release from Stanford University announced: Twin research indicates that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health. A Stanford Medicine-led trial of identical twins comparing vegan and omnivore diets found that a vegan diet improves overall cardiovascular health. In a study with 22 pairs of identical twins, Stanford Medicine researchers and their colleagues have found that a vegan diet improves cardiovascular health in as little as eight weeks.
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 8, 2024
It’s okay to struggle and it’s okay to ask for help. Those are just two of the messages that Humboldt Broncos bus crash survivor Tyler Smith shared with an auditorium packed with Ontario Agricultural Conference attendees last week at the University of Guelph’s Ridgetown campus. It was April 6, 2018 when a bus carrying the. Read More It’s okay to struggle and it’s okay to ask for help.
Food and Farming Technology
JANUARY 12, 2024
Burro, a Philadelphia-based autonomous mobility company has closed a US$24 million Series B funding round.
Civil Eats
JANUARY 17, 2024
Back in the ’90s, beef was what was for dinner. As a fourth-generation Georgia cattleman, you’d think I’d be a big fan of that catchy campaign—but the truth is, the ad is the product of a system that has been putting ranchers like me out of business for decades. The beef ads were paid for with funds collected through federal research and promotion programs, also called commodity checkoff programs.
Western FarmPress
JANUARY 19, 2024
As concerns grow, better data tracking is needed to understand just how much land is getting snatched up by foreign interests.
Agri-tech
JANUARY 10, 2024
What is dyslexia? It’s a word that we all know, and it is highly likely that we all know someone who is dyslexic. It is a common neurodevelopmental disorder that affects the ability to read and write. It is thought to affect 10% of children and between 5 – 17.5% of the wider population, put into context up to 1 in 6 people are neurodiverse in this way.
Food Politics
JANUARY 26, 2024
I was interested to see this report and the academic analysis on which it is based —both from the Food Systems Countdown Initiative. The academic analysis is extremely complicated and difficult to get through. This initiative is highly ambitious. It developed a set of 50 (!) indicators and “holistic monitoring architecture to track food system transformation towards global development, health and sustainability goals.
Real Agriculture
JANUARY 3, 2024
Happy New Year! What an incredible start to the year with the launch of the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Toronto lost, but so did Ottawa (in OT) on January 2. Not the greatest start for Ontario teams, but host Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson will take it. On to agronomy, this week’s challenge is to think. Read More Happy New Year!
USDA Blog
JANUARY 19, 2024
USDA scientists have discovered that the spotted lanternfly , an invasive threat to fruit crops and many trees, may have an Achilles heel – an attraction to vibration.
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