Real Agriculture

APRIL 8, 2024

Planting corn directly into a living cover crop before it is killed by herbicide or tillage is not something growers would have considered 30 years ago, says Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural affairs soil management specialist Jake Munroe. More and more farmers, however, are now willing to take the leap thanks to advances. Read More Planting corn directly into a living cover crop before it is killed by herbicide or tillage is not something growers would have considered 30 years ago

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Food Politics

APRIL 12, 2024

Nina Guilbeault. The Good Eater: A Vegan’s Search for the Future of Food. Bloomsbury, 2024. I did a back-cover blurb for this book: The Good Eater is a vegan sociologist’s remarkably open-minded exploration of the historical, ethical, health, environmental, and social justice implications of not eating meat. Guilbeault’s extensive research and interviews get right into the tough questions about this movement, leaving us free to choose for ourselves whether to eat this way.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

APRIL 9, 2024

Jeremy’s latest newsletter is out, with a medium-deep dive on a deep dive on figs. There’s more on FIGGEN here. And FYI, Genesys shows about 1500 fig accessions in genebanks. AramcoWorld is a glossy publication from the Saudi oil giant that covers all sorts of topics generally linked to the Muslim world. In the latest issue a deep dive into fig diversity.

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Cultivation 180

Agri-tech

APRIL 11, 2024

Curiosity-driven research probing the mysteries of cell-to-cell communication has been awarded prestigious European Research Council (ERC) funding. Professor Christine Faulkner and her group at the John Innes Centre have received the ERC Advanced Grant which supports excellent research scientists who are established in their field. “This funding will take our discovery research into cell-to-cell.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 8, 2024

The American Association of Bovine Practitioners will now refer to highly pathogenic avian influenza in cattle as bovine influenza A virus, or BIAV, and is encouraging everyone to do the same. In an open letter dated April 8, 2024, the AABP says that though caused by the same virus, the disease presents very differently in.

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Food Politics

APRIL 11, 2024

Fruit juices were not a problem when I was growing up. Ancient history: Juice was so expensive—it was freshly squeezed from several oranges—that we couldn’t afford to drink much of it, Juice glasses were 6 ounces. This was long before cheap concentrated juice appeared in supermarkets, let alone canned and bottled juices and juice drinks. Because juice is squeezed from several fruits, the sugars add up but the fiber disappears.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 11, 2024

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack suggests China’s reduced purchases of American agricultural products, particularly corn and soybeans, may be linked to recent actions taken by the U.S.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 12, 2024

It’s been 40 years since Kim McConnell started his first agri-business, Fieldstone Marketing. McConnell built that company into what eventually became AdFarm, one of North America’s largest agricultural marketing companies. McConnell has been a constant presence in moving the Canadian agri-food industry forward even after moving away from his role as CEO as AdFarm, and.

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Food Politics

APRIL 9, 2024

I’m trying to make sense of the ongoing spread of bird flu to chickens, dairy cows, and an occasional person. Bird flu, avian influenza , is (obviously) a viral disease in wild birds, but highly pathogenic strains can and do infect chickens, animals, and people. It was considered sporadic and not much of a problem until we started industrial chicken production, crowding tens of thousands of chickens together in on huge barn.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

China has initiated a new round of action to significantly increase its grain output in the coming years via an increase in planted area and yield, in the latest effort to ensure food security.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 11, 2024

Ag Marketing IQ: Moments of uncertainty regarding crop production size and weather often spur a rally – a fast, furious short rally, but a nice upside all the same. Pay close attention.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 12, 2024

Grade 10 and 11 students will have a chance to learn more about modern farming thanks to new resources developed by Agriculture in the Classroom Canada (AITC-C) in partnership with CropLife Canada. Educators across Canada will have access to new curriculum-based resources that teach students about what it takes to grow carrots, turnips and potatoes.

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Food Politics

APRIL 10, 2024

The headline caught my eye: 5 dead and over 100 hospitalized from recalled Japanese health supplements The supplement is benikoji. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical had been selling benikoji products for years, with a million packages sold over the past three fiscal years, but a problem crept up with the supplements produced in 2023. Kobayashi Pharmaceutical said it produced 18.5 tons of benikoji last year.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 10, 2024

In an effort to prevent domestic cattle from being exposed to Bovine Influenza A Virus (BIAV), 17 states have restricted cattle imports from states where the virus has infected dairy cows.

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Cattle 121

Western FarmPress

APRIL 10, 2024

Texas strawberry season started early. The first berries to come out of the field were large and sweet and in excellent condition. Learn more, plus the latest crop and weather report.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 8, 2024

AGCO Corporation has launched PTx, a new brand representing its precision ag portfolio. PTx combines precision ag technologies from Precision Planting with AGCO’s newest joint venture, PTx Trimble. The name PTx is a combination of precision agriculture (P) and advanced technologies (T) that multiply (x) the impact it creates for farmers through seamless, intelligent and.

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Ohio State University

APRIL 10, 2024

COLUMBUS OH, A policy brief just released by The C. William Swank Program in Rural-Urban Policy attempts to answer the question of why some rural communities thrive and others might lag behind by examining two rural-Ohio success stories: Holmes and Mercer Counties. Both Holmes and Mercer Counties have fared better than the average rural Ohio or rural U.S., even though both counties faced structural disadvantages.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 12, 2024

USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) announced it’s canceling the July Cattle Inventory Report. In the announcement, NASS blamed budget cuts from the most recent appropriations bills.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 10, 2024

Family Farm Success: Family farms reap the benefit when the next generation builds skills and experience through off-farm work and development programs.

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Real Agriculture

APRIL 10, 2024

Once the snow is gone, it’s time to assess how the fall-seeded crops have fared. For much of Ontario, they not only did well, they’re already growing like weeds! For some areas of the province, the winter wheat crop is as much as five days ahead of the 10-year average. That’s where we start with. Read More Once the snow is gone, it’s time to assess how the fall-seeded crops have fared.

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AgriLife Today

APRIL 10, 2024

New study details long-sought mechanisms and structures Bacterial infections pose significant challenges to agriculture and medicine, especially as cases of antibiotic-resistant bacteria continue to rise. In response, scientists at Texas A&M AgriLife Research are elucidating the ways that bacteria-infecting viruses disarm these pathogens and ushering in the possibility of novel treatment methods.

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Mechanics Agriculture Agriculture Science 108

AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 9, 2024

What’s the key to growing big yields? According to the reigning national corn yield contest champ, David Hula, you can’t have 300-bushel-per-acre yields if you don’t start with 300-bushel-per-acre stands.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 10, 2024

Bryce Driver, 29, of Americus, Ga., died from a heart attack the day before Easter. The community rallied to support his wife and newborn twins.

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Crop 124

National Young Farmers Coalition

APRIL 12, 2024

On March 21st, 15 farmers from our network joined Young Farmers staff and partners from the Land Stewardship Project and the Midwest Farmers of Color Collective in Washington, D.C. to advocate for our equitable land access and climate policy priorities in the upcoming farm bill. Together, we led 21 meetings, sharing our stories and farm bill priorities with Congressional offices and House and Senate Agriculture Committee staff.

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American Farmland

APRIL 12, 2024

The Lor family was able to buy their farm in Minnesota with help from American Farmland Trust which bought the land from a retired goat farmer and protected it with an agricultural conservation easement.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 10, 2024

Steve Troxle, state commissioner of agriculture, said he is waiting for more diagnostic information from the National Veterinary Services Laboratory and will work collaboratively with North Carolina dairy farmers.

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Agriculture Agriculture 118

Western FarmPress

APRIL 9, 2024

In late February, 16 Western Oklahoma wildfires scorched pasture, destroyed homes, and killed animals in three days. Fence replacement is one of the largest expenses producers face.

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AgriLife Today

APRIL 9, 2024

From backyards, football fields and golf courses, science is reshaping the turfgrass experience The science of turfgrass has come a long way in recent decades. Whether turfgrass breeders and programs produced varieties for a carpet-like lawn, the perfect ball roll on a golf putting green, or to support the weight and athleticism of 300-pound football.

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Food Tank

APRIL 6, 2024

El Valle de Guadalupe, one of Mexico’s most prolific wine and agricultural regions, has recently come under threat due to increasing urbanization and economic development in the area. In response, winemakers, chefs, and community members launched Rescatemos El Valle, a campaign to preserve the valley. El Valle de Guadalupe is an area of Ensenada Municipality in Baja California, Mexico.

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 8, 2024

The first look at a new farm bill could happen as early as next week. It’s long overdue after nothing was released out of Committee in 2023. Now, there’s growing doubt a farm bill will even be passed in 2024.

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Farming Farming 117

Western FarmPress

APRIL 11, 2024

Every type of construction takes more money these days, plus interest. Here’s how two farmers added grain storage — including a nontraditional route.

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Grain Construction 119

Modern Farmer

APRIL 8, 2024

Nate Lewis and Melissa Barker knew that Oyster Bay Farm was for them. “It ticked all the boxes,” says Lewis. Situated in Olympia, Washington along the shores of Puget Sound, the fertile land and waterfront views make the farm an ideal spot. There was just one problem: Lewis and Barker could not afford to buy the farm or the land on which it sits—that is, until they worked with an agricultural land trust.

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Sustainable Food Trust

APRIL 10, 2024

We now all well know how plastic is devastating our seas, but we’re only beginning to realise how damaging it is to our soils and how widely used and poorly disposed of it is in farming. In 2021, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) published a major report on plastic use in farming. It opened the door on the global scale of farm plastics and pinpointed the root of the problem – currently, farm plastics have only a barely viable end-of-life plan, and the vast majority of these plastics ar

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AgWeb Farm Journal

APRIL 12, 2024

Grains sharply higher Friday, livestock and many other commodities melt down It was a money flow or "Get me Out" day. Chip Nellinger, Blue Reef Agri-Marketing, provides his insight.

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Western FarmPress

APRIL 12, 2024

The two endangered salamanders live in 11 counties in south-central Georgia. Farmers in those counties couldn’t legally use a certain herbicide for a time.

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Modern Farmer

APRIL 10, 2024

What is the “right” approach to meat? There’s no doubt that industrial animal agriculture carries a laundry list of sins; greenhouse gas emissions, biodiversity loss, deforestation, water pollution and labor rights abuses are just a few examples. But there’s also evidence that some regenerative grazing practices can enhance biodiversity, improve soil health and—possibly—sequester carbon.

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CalCAN

APRIL 9, 2024

Did you know, that the United States started collecting statistics on agriculture before we had a United States Department of Agriculture? In 1840 the first Census of Agriculture was tallied and in February 2024 the 2022 Census of Agriculture was The post Reflections on the 2022 Census of Agriculture appeared first on CalCAN.

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