Real Agriculture
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
The board of directors for a large farmer-owned grain elevator in western Saskatchewan has decided to idle its facility as a result of negative margins that it anticipates will continue into next year. North West Terminal Ltd. (NWT) at Unity, Sask. is suspending all purchases of grain, and has cancelled its elevator license with the.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
AgriLife Today
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Producers and students to benefit from additional expertise of Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics The post Three new faculty added to address agricultural, agribusiness challenges in Rio Grande Valley appeared first on AgriLife Today.
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.
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.
Real Agriculture
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
The full version of this article, written by Paul Hamel, was originally published in the Nebraska Examiner. This shortened version appears here on RealAg under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. LINCOLN, Nebraska — Construction workers are hurrying to put the final touches on what is planned to be the state’s largest feedlot for.
Food Politics
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The World Health Organization has issued guidelines for taxing unhealthy foods: Fiscal Policies to Promote Healthy Diets. On the basis of current evidence, the WHO recommends: Taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) Consideration of policies to tax unhealthy foods Consideration of policies to subsidize healthy foods A recent article explains why the recommendation for SSB taxes is so strong: Sweetened Beverage Tax Implementation and Change in Body Mass Index Among Children in Seattle.
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.
AgriLife Today
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Biological nitrification inhibition trait in sorghum may allow reduced fertilizer use and greenhouse gas emissions The post Texas A&M AgriLife researchers identify novel approach to minimize nitrogen loss in crops appeared first on AgriLife Today.
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.
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.
Real Agriculture
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
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.
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.
Berkeley Blog
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024
UC Berkeley study finds rapid increase over last 12,000 years in genes for enzymes that digest starch The post Agriculture accelerated human genome evolution to capture energy from starchy foods appeared first on Berkeley News.
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.
Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
Estate Plan Edge: Leaving everything to your spouse seems simple and straightforward — until the surviving spouse dies and has a $4 million exemption instead of an $8 million one.
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.
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,
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.
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.
AgriLife Today
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Camp jump starts Madison Perkins' path to the Department of Poultry Science The post Wings and nuggets and a passion for helping others appeared first on AgriLife Today.
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.
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.
Real Agriculture
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
Grain exports from Western Canada could face another major labour disruption starting Tuesday. The union representing approximately 650 workers at six grain terminals at the Port of Vancouver could walk off the job as soon as 7am on Tuesday, Sept. 24 after serving 72-hour strike notice on Saturday, Sept. 21. The Grain Workers Union Local.
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.
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.
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.
Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
ICGA says EPA’s multipollutant rule and DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rule would devastate agriculture.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 27, 2024
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.
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.
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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