Food Politics

AUGUST 23, 2024

Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. This terrific book picks up where I left off with Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) (2015) and Unsavory Truth: How the Food Industry Skews the Science of What We Eat (2018). Susan Greenhalgh’s focus, however, is on ILSI, the International Life Sciences Institute (now renamed the Institute for the Advancement of Food and Nutrition Sciences).

Science 342

Science Food 342

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

I feel like all I have talked about on RealAg Radio for the past two weeks is the potential impacts of both Canadian railways going on strike. As the minutes tick down to the August 22nd strike deadline, it’s become clear that Canadians are completely comfortable with the impacts of the threat. The comfort level.

Logistics 338

Logistics Livestock Production Crop 338

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 20, 2024

I do love a good historical counterfactual. Unfortunately, Henry A. Wallace becoming president of the USA in 1945 is not a particularly good counterfactual. You really want these things to hang on a coin toss, and it was in fact extremely unlikely that FDR would have chosen Wallace again as his vice-president running mate in 1944. However, that didn’t stop me enjoying the recent episode of the podcast Past Present Future entitled “ What If… Wallace not Truman Had Become US President

Logistics 272

Logistics Agriculture Agriculture Crop 272

Berkeley Blog

AUGUST 23, 2024

Bestselling author and UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Michael Pollan discusses how he chooses his subjects, why he co-founded the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and the role of storytelling in shifting our perspective. The post Berkeley Talks: It’s not just psychedelics that change minds, says Michael Pollan. Storytelling does, too. appeared first on Berkeley News.

Science 144

Science 144

Food Politics

AUGUST 20, 2024

I was interested to see this report in the BMJ (formerly British Medical Journal): Revolving door: You are free to influence us “behind the scenes,” FDA tells staff leaving for industry jobs. BMJ 2024;386:q1418. doi: 10.1136/bmj.q1418. The “Revolving Door,” of course, is the term used to describe how officials of federal regulatory agencies leave to take jobs with the industry they formerly regulated, and vice versa.

Food 222

Food 222

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2024

It has been quite the past week in covering the events leading up to the Canada-wide rail strike and lockout. Then on Thursday afternoon, just 17 hours after the lockout began, the federal labour minister initiated Section 107 to force binding arbitration through the Canada Industrial Relations Board. With the union serving a new 72-hour.

Logistics 324

Logistics Production Agriculture Agriculture 324

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 21, 2024

The authors of book “ Moving Crops and the Scales of History ” have been awarded the Edelstein Prize 2024 for their work to “redefine historical inquiry based on the “cropscape”: the assemblage of people, places, creatures, technologies, and other elements that form around a crop.” Let’s see how many cropscapes we can come up with today.

Seeding 186

Seeding Crop Technology Agriculture 186

Civil Eats

AUGUST 21, 2024

This is the first of a two-part series. On a recent spring afternoon, CheeNulKa Pocknett’s truck rattled slowly across Monomoscoy Island, the engine roar swallowing the caw of seabirds. It caught the attention of a gray-haired woman working in her garden who popped up from behind a wall of red and yellow tulips, a scowl shading her face. “She knows me and doesn’t like me,” Pocknett said, casting a half-hearted wave in her direction.

Harvester 135

Harvester Harvest Harvesting Aquaculture 135

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

The impacts of an impending dual rail strike are already being felt by Canada’s export-dependent industries and individual farmers, but the pain is about to get a whole lot worse for businesses and, in turn, Canadians.

Grain 312

Grain Logistics Livestock Production 312

Berkeley Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

The device is capable of manipulating materials that are only nanometers thick, paving the way for new quantum technologies. The post World’s first micromachine twists 2D materials at will appeared first on Berkeley News.

Technology 131

Technology 131

Agri-tech

AUGUST 23, 2024

Much of what we know about plant circadian rhythms is the result of laboratory experiments where inputs such as light and temperature can be tightly controlled. Less is known about how these biological timing mechanisms operate in the more unpredictable natural world where they evolved to align living things to daily and seasonal cycles. A pioneering collaborative study between UK and Japanese.

Mechanics 130

Mechanics 130

NASDA

AUGUST 21, 2024

My internship with NASDA this summer has been exceptional. NASDA granted me the opportunity to gain more knowledge and experience than I imagined could be offered by one internship. When I first began this internship, I was not sure what to expect, mostly because I did not realize how broad the communications field is. However after my first week, I quickly learned how much thought and effort go into all aspects of a communications position.

130

130

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.

Cattle 299

Cattle Livestock 299

Berkeley Blog

AUGUST 23, 2024

The material could be easily adapted for a variety of medical, consumer and industrial applications. The post New recyclable adhesives could serve as surgical superglue appeared first on Berkeley News.

Technology 128

Technology 128

USDA Blog

AUGUST 21, 2024

The USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) Great Lakes Region encompasses Indiana , Michigan , and Ohio – three states with a significant impact on U.S. agriculture and a healthy crop of young producers.

Agriculture 126

Agriculture Agriculture Crop 126

NASDA

AUGUST 20, 2024

Letter Dear Prime Minister: Our members represent a broad array of the agricultural supply chain that relies on freight rail transportation from the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and CPKC, and we write to express concerns regarding a potential significant disruption to the North American supply chains. We request that you take action to ensure railroad operations continue before a lockout or strike occurs to prevent serious damage to the Canadian and U.S. economies.

Supply Chain 130

Supply Chain Grain Agriculture Agriculture 130

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 19, 2024

When considering adopting new technology, thoughts typically turn to costs — what will a new tech save in time or money, or how much will something limit losses or boost yield? But the actual pace of adopting practice changes in agriculture isn’t just held up by ROI, it’s something far more complicated. The adoption gap. Read More When considering adopting new technology, thoughts typically turn to costs — what will a new tech save in time or money, or how much will something limit l

Technology 299

Technology Yield Farming Farming 299

Berkeley Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

"Freedom to express diverse viewpoints is fundamental to the mission of the University, and lawful protests play a pivotal role in that process," UC President Michael Drake writes The post Updates on UC-wide campus climate efforts appeared first on Berkeley News.

Processing 126

Processing 126

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

Grain 124

Grain Food Farming Farming 124

Food Politics

AUGUST 19, 2024

I saw this announcement in Food Navigator: Study: Nutrient dense formula could improve cognition and behaviour in infants. My immediate question: Who paid for this? I went right to it. The study: Schneider N, Hartweg M, O’Regan J, Beauchemin J, Redman L, Hsia DS, Steiner P, Carmichael O, D’Sa V, Deoni S. Impact of a Nutrient Formulation on Longitudinal Myelination, Cognition, and Behavior from Birth to 2 Years: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Food 124

Food Marketing 124

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2024

Corn plants need boron throughout the growing season. The uptake curve for the micronutrient is pretty linear from emergence to black layer, but making boron available in the ear later in the season, where it plays an important role in sugar movement and developing kernels, can be difficult. The challenge, says AGRIS Co-operative senior agronomist. Read More Corn plants need boron throughout the growing season.

Yield 289

Yield Fertilizer Production Crop 289

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.

Ecology 119

Ecology Science 119

Civil Eats

AUGUST 20, 2024

When Maximina Hernández Reyes emigrated from Oaxaca, Mexico, to Oregon in 2001, she was still learning English, had no idea where the food pantries were, and knew very few people. She struggled to find a support system in Gresham, the suburb of Portland where she settled, until 2012, when she happened upon a community garden in the city’s Vance Park.

Food 116

Food Farming Farming Marketing 116

AgriLife Today

AUGUST 20, 2024

The Texas cotton crop can only be described as a mixed bag, with harvest wrapping up in the southern parts to bolls just setting in the north

Crop 116

Crop Harvester Harvest Harvesting 116

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.

Fertilizer 290

Fertilizer Supply Chain Yield Crop 290

Berkeley Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

A directive on policies impacting expressive activities The post A letter from Michael Drake, UC system president appeared first on Berkeley News.

116

116

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

Beverage 113

Beverage Food Science Technology 113

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 19, 2024

Jeremy’s latest newsletter discusses a very humble wild potato species, which we have actually blogged about here on a number of previous occasions. Do subscribe, there’s other cool stuff in there. Indigenous people in the southwest of North America had more of a hand in crop domestication than is often thought, according to a new paper on the Four Corners potato, Solanum jamesii.

Maize 113

Maize Cultivation Crop Marketing 113

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 23, 2024

How to create and maintain healthy soils has been a topic of conversation and data collection for at least the past 40 years. In that time, a growing movement of farmers and ranchers have been shifting their practices to make use of the impact that livestock can have on the soil beneath their hooves. One. Read More How to create and maintain healthy soils has been a topic of conversation and data collection for at least the past 40 years.

Livestock 279

Livestock Cattle Agriculture Agriculture 279

CABI

AUGUST 20, 2024

CABI, in collaboration with the Agriculture Development Directorate, Ministry of Agriculture and Land Management (MoALM), Gandaki province, Nepal, recently conducted a two-day training on Monitoring Plant Clinic Performance (MPCP). This crucial training was designed to enhance the quality of plant clinics, recognizing the pivotal role of plant doctors in providing accurate advice and quality recommendations… The post Nepal update: Monitoring plant clinic performance appeared first on Plant

Agriculture 112

Agriculture Agriculture Science 112

Food Politics

AUGUST 21, 2024

I definitely wanted to read more of this article from the newsletter, NutrIngredients-Europe : ASA targets menopause claims with AI assisted crackdown: The UK’s advertising standards authority (ASA) has warned supplement firms they must remove ads which make claims to treat or cure the symptoms of menopause, as part of a wider AI-assisted campaign….

Production 113

Production Food 113

Modern Farmer

AUGUST 20, 2024

Kendra Kimbirauskas and Starla Tillinghast are dairy farmers who live in Scio, a small town in the rural Willamette Valley in Oregon. Home to covered bridges, seed crops, grazing lands, hazelnuts, timber, and small, well-tended dairies, this small farming community wasn’t against raising animals to feed people. But a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) would have completely changed the nature of their community.

Farming 111

Farming Farming Ruralism Seeding 111

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

John Deere rolled into Ag In Motion at Saskatoon, Sask., last month with several machines new to Canadian soil. Parked near the manufacturer’s latest and largest C-Series air carts was Deere’s T6 800 conventional-style walker combine. In this report, Bergen Nelson, Deere’s go-to-market manager for harvesters, shares how this replacement for the T670 combine is.

Manufacturing 278

Manufacturing Harvester Harvest Harvesting 278

USDA Blog

AUGUST 23, 2024

For nearly 20 years, Dr. Jennie L. Stephens has been a champion in breaking down barriers so that families can build generational wealth and grow working landscapes with their inherited property. South Carolina’s Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation (CHPP™), where Equity Commission Agriculture Subcommittee member Dr. Jennie L. Stephens serves as CEO, helps historically underserved families who jointly own land that is vulnerable to disposition and underutilization.

Agriculture 110

Agriculture Agriculture 110

Food Tank

AUGUST 21, 2024

California-based photographer, filmmaker and writer Patrick Trefz recently released his newest book Ode to Travel. Published by Powerhouse Books, it showcases a collection of photos and recipes from 38 locations around the world, offering readers insight into Trefz’s perspective on life and exploration. Trefz structures each chapter around a single location.

Food 110

Food Agriculture Agriculture 110

Agric4profits

AUGUST 23, 2024

Christopher Colombus said that papaya is “fruit of the angels” because of its soft and tender texture. Previously it was thought as an exotic fruit.

105

105

Real Agriculture

AUGUST 21, 2024

There are more than a few seeding, fertilizing, and scouting questions to wade through in this week’s Wheat Pete’s Word podcast, and that’s exactly how host Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson likes it. Before answering the top agronomy questions, though, Johnson has two reminders for all of us on being courteous and on taking care of.

Fertilizer 276

Fertilizer Yield Seeding Production 276