Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

While policy leaders around the world are pushing to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at an unprecedented speed, the science is still working to catch up, at least when it comes to measuring carbon sequestration rates and emissions at the farm level. The conventional way of measuring carbon is to look at what is currently. Read More While policy leaders around the world are pushing to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions at an unprecedented speed, the science is still working to catch up,

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Food Politics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

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.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

The top-ranked Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures is undertaking a $9 million campaign to add more Ukrainian scholarship and programming. The post With $3 million gift, Berkeley prepares to build premier Ukrainian studies program appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

When Civil Eats launched in 2009, no major media outlets focused on the relationship between food and other significant social and political issues. For the past 15 years, we have led the charge in creating robust conversations around food and farming, and worked to make complicated, underreported stories more accessible to a mainstream audience. In that time, our stories have had significant impact and reach, thanks in part to support from our readers and donors.

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Agri-tech

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Bacteria use their internal 24-hour clocks to anticipate the arrival of new seasons, according to research carried out with the assistance of an ‘ice bucket challenge.’ This discovery may have profound implications for understanding the role that circadian rhythms – a molecular version of a clock – play in adapting species to climate change, from migrating animals to flowering plants.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

This fall, Food Tank serves up a list of 23 new titles that explore the complex world that food eaters face today. Awaiting Their Feast, and Life and Death of the American Worker dive into some of the realities that workers face within the food system. Transfarmation and Industrial Farm Animal Production, the Environment, and Public Health focus on the experience within the animal agriculture industry.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Soil type, water availability, hybrid choice, plant population and crop nutrients are just some of the factors growers have to consider when pursuing a high-yielding corn crop on their farm. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Soil School, we catch up with Aaron Stevanus as he shares how these factors are evaluated at the Stevanus Family. Read More Soil type, water availability, hybrid choice, plant population and crop nutrients are just some of the factors growers have to consider when p

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

For over two decades, Berkeley has almost always been ranked as the No. 1 or No. 2 public school in the country. The post ‘U.S. News’ ranks UC Berkeley No. 2 public school in the country appeared first on Berkeley News.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Ally Huang, a senior at Pomona College in California, just completed an internship through the Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). As a public policy analysis major focusing on economics, she found that the experience enabled her to connect her educational background with a familiar cause: food security.

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Agri-tech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

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.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Determining factors such as production costs and your working capital can help you form a plan to survive lower corn and soybean prices amid stubborn input costs.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Children have enjoyed playing with nesting dolls for years and years. You know the ones — where opening one doll leads to finding another, smaller doll inside. What does a delightful children’s toy have to do with pea aphids in lentil crops? Let’s explain. Pea aphids are parthenogenic and much like the beloved nesting dolls, Read More Children have enjoyed playing with nesting dolls for years and years.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

SFT CEO, Patrick Holden, responds to the recent announcement from Tesco’s to cut a number of farmers from their Sustainable Dairy Group – a decision which Patrick calls ‘misguided’. I’ve just read in Farmers Weekly that Tesco has announced their decision to reduce the number of dairy farmers in their milk supply pool , giving just 12-months’ notice to those who will be dropped.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The endowed program, led by Ussama Makdisi, a history professor, will fund research and cultural activities, representing a major step forward in expanding Middle Eastern scholarship at UC Berkeley. The post New Palestinian and Arab Studies program established at UC Berkeley appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about why the Atlantic hurricane season recently has been strangely inactive considering we are currently near the climatological peak of activity.

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Agri-tech

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Dr Chris Morgan has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship to carry forward his exciting investigations into the mysteries of meiosis. From October Dr Morgan will take the important first steps towards becoming an independent group leader at the John Innes Centre when he begins the eight-year Royal Society University Research Fellowship.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Clemson team has conducted an intensive, integrated research and Extension project on broiler litter application across South Carolina. The research involves collaborations with 20 farmers.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Over the past 20 years, advancements in corn genetics have helped produce an average yield gain of better than two bushels per acre, per year. What does the future hold for further yield advancement and where might genetic improvement take the king of crops? On this episode of the The Sharp Edge, host Bernard Tobin. Read More Over the past 20 years, advancements in corn genetics have helped produce an average yield gain of better than two bushels per acre, per year.

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The Equation

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Over the last three months, which have been declared the world’s hottest summer on record, outdoor workers across the US have endured dangerously hot conditions on the job. They’ve cut grass in 112°F heat in California’s Coachella Valley, handled baggage on the hot tarmac of airports across the country, harvested fruit , delivered packages , and performed countless other functions that go largely unnoticed by our society.

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Food Tank

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

A new initiative led by the World Vegetable Center aims to address hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and the climate crisis by rescuing and conserving the biodiversity of African vegetables. The launch of the African Vegetable Biodiversity Rescue Plan, announced at the 2024 Africa Food Systems Summit in Kigali, Rwanda, is designed to bring more resources and attention to native crops in Africa.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

On September 9, 2024, Congress will be back in session in Washington, DC for the first time since early August. Yet, their return will be short lived. In an election year, Members of Congress spend all of October and early November in their states and Congressional districts. In total, Congress will be in session for three full weeks before adjourning on September 27.

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Agri-tech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A consortium of four UK research organisations led by the John Innes Centre has won £3m Defra funding to enable the development of climate resilient legume crops. The Pulse Crop Genetic Improvement Network (PCGIN) which started in 2008, has received the funding boost for the next five years.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

An Oklahoma farmer is interseeding wheat in between his cotton rows prior to defoliation. See what he's using and how he's integrating it into his crop rotation and cattle operation.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Why is it so important for corn growers to get their combine settings right before they roll into the field to harvest grain? University of Guelph Ridgetown College instructor and combine mechanic TJ Poehleman has a simple answer to that question. He says when growers are paying $800,000 or more for a combine and the. Read More Why is it so important for corn growers to get their combine settings right before they roll into the field to harvest grain?

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Existence of Earth-like planet around dead sun offers hope for our planet's ultimate survival The post This rocky planet around a white dwarf resembles Earth — 8 billion years from now appeared first on Berkeley News.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Herminia Gomez serves as a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) liaison , working closely with Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) in the Northeast. HSIs are colleges and universities where the total Hispanic enrollment is at least 25% of the total student population. USDA partners with these institutions to connect students, faculty and staff with professional development, workforce development and educational opportunities.

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Department tops U.S. News & World Report rankings for 2025 The post Texas A&M Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering ranked No. 1 in nation appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Agri-tech

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

On Monday 29th July, the JIC/TSL Annual Student Science Meeting (ASM) unfolded with a fresh energy, designed by students, for students. Hosted by the John Innes Centre (JIC) and The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) student voices, this event was a unique opportunity for students to display their innovative research in a relaxed and supportive environment.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A Firth, Neb., farmer fell 40 feet from the top of a grain bin and lived to tell his story. This is part one of this cautionary tale of farm tragedy and miraculous courage.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The pressure is on for the Ontario government to back away from a land deal that would see 770 acres of farmland turned into a yet-to-be-determined industrial development. Hundreds of citizens in Wilmot Township near Kitchener, Ont., have posted signs and signed petitions proclaiming they are “unwilling hosts” to the planned development.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

"Venture capital is clearly paying attention to Berkeley-generated companies," Chancellor Rich Lyons said. "And we're just getting started." The post UC Berkeley ranked No. 1 for generating startup founders, companies and female entrepreneurs appeared first on Berkeley News.

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USDA Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

When Kiera Sherrod was young, her grandfather often came to her house in Albany, Georgia to plant crops in her parents’ backyard for her family to maintain and harvest. This ritual also sparked the beginning of his granddaughter’s interest in agriculture.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This story was co-published and supported by the journalism nonprofit the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. The post How a Vermont Cheesemaker Helps Local Farms Thrive appeared first on Civil Eats.

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Agri-tech

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Plants are incredible organisms, making up around 80% of all the biomass on Earth. However, despite their abundance, many people just don’t seem to notice plants. Dr Shannon Woodhouse, Education Programme Co-ordinator, explores this phenomenon. Look at the picture above, what was the first thing you saw? I can guarantee it was Rex the cat and not the beautiful crocuses next to him.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

ICGA says EPA’s multipollutant rule and DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule would devastate agriculture.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

When planting a grain crop in the spring and caring for those plants throughout the summer, farmers look forward to the full bins that harvest typically brings. Sometimes, drought, hail or pests get in the way, leading to crop yield potential that isn’t worth taking for grain. This is where having a mixed operation or. Read More When planting a grain crop in the spring and caring for those plants throughout the summer, farmers look forward to the full bins that harvest typically brings.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

At UC Berkeley, Richards built sensitive instruments to explore relic radiation from the Big Bang The post Physicist Paul Richards, a pioneer in studies of the cosmic microwave background, dies at 90 appeared first on Berkeley News.

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