Real Agriculture

JULY 4, 2024

Farmers and ranchers face many pressures to farm and raise animals in certain ways to meet sustainability-related goals of others, including food companies, lenders, and government. Clauses in crop contracts, carbon credits, government payments for rotational grazing or using nitrogen loss inhibitors, the federal fertilizer emissions reduction target, clean fuel standards, codes of practice, and.

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Food Politics

JULY 3, 2024

I saw this headline in the Washington Post: Bayer lobbies Congress to help fight lawsuits tying Roundup to cancer. The biotech giant Bayer has lobbied Congress over the past year to advance legislation that could shield the company from billions of dollars in lawsuits, part of a national campaign to defeat claims that its weed killer Roundup causes cancer in people who use it frequently…By erecting new legal barriers to bringing those cases, Bayer seeks to prevent sizable payouts to plaintiffs w

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 3, 2024

As the International Plant Treaty celebrates its 20th birthday , here’s a nice interview with the current Secretary, Kent Nnadozie. Want a quick summary of the Treaty’s achievements? Kent has you covered: To begin with, we have been able to set up fully functional mechanisms out of the text of the Treaty. We have established a multilateral system for access and benefit-sharing, which is like the global pool of genetic material and seeds that facilitates the breeding of new varieties

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NASDA

JULY 2, 2024

The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service cooperative agreement team is pleased to announce several exciting job opportunities in the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest regions. As part of an initiative to modernize and strengthen operations, the NASDA team is offering the following new opportunities: NASDA Associate Director This position will serve as the liaison with NASS regional teams, facilitate communication and collaborat

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Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2024

A July 15th tax return filing deadline is looming for small and medium-sized businesses across Canada who could be eligible for the federal carbon tax rebate announced in the federal budget in April. An estimated 600 thousand Canadian-controlled private corporations (CCPCs), including farms that are incorporated, could be eligible to receive more than $2.5 billion.

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Food Politics

JULY 2, 2024

The headline in The Guardian : UK children shorter, fatter and sicker amid poor diet and poverty, report finds. Here’s the report. It’s principal findings: The height of 5 year olds has been falling since 2013. Obesity among 10-11 year olds has increased by 30% since 2006. Type 2 diabetes among under 25s has increased by 22% in the past 5 years. Babies born today will enjoy a year less good health than babies born a decade ago.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 3, 2024

How to collect forestry seeds. Whole bunch of new maize races collected in Colombia. The Türkiye national genebank in the news. Lots of collecting there. Though maybe not as much as in this genebank in China. But small communities need genebanks too. Here’s an example from Ghana. And another from India. And a final one from the Solomon Islands.

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Real Agriculture

JUNE 30, 2024

At least one crop protection company is among the group of Cereals Canada’s industry members that have submitted withdrawal notices to the national cereal grain value chain organization. BASF Canada Agricultural Solutions filed the notice ahead of Cereals Canada’s annual general meeting on June 27th. Several grain company members, including Cargill, have also signaled their.

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USDA Blog

JULY 1, 2024

Did you know that women are responsible for roughly half of the world’s food production? The United Nations’ designation of 2026 as the International Year of the Woman Farmer gives the global community a chance to highlight that fact and celebrate the incredibly important role women play in ensuring global food security. At the same time, it’s an unprecedented opportunity to underscore – and to address – the myriad social and economic challenges that women in agriculture face worldwide.

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Food Tank

JULY 2, 2024

Food Tank is compiling a list of books that will engage, educate, and inspire you this summer. Rethink your relationship with gardening in Tama Matsuoka Wong’s Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager , or learn about food systems innovations in the face of climate change in Food Systems of the Future. From guides teaching you how to create your own permaculture garden to personal memoirs of food and family to investigations of community food systems, this list has everything you’re looking

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Berkeley Blog

JULY 3, 2024

Half a century after it was founded in 1974, Rausser College of Natural Resources is a leader in cutting-edge research, exceptional educational opportunities, and creating connections between science and society. The post Rausser College of Natural Resources celebrates 50 years of excellence appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2024

BMO has committed $1 million to the Simpson Centre for Food and Agricultural Policy at the University of Calgary’s School of Public Policy to lead a new program to change how society perceives and interacts with the food system. The Simpson Centre says the program, Ag Literacy for Healthier People and Planet, will help build.

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Civil Eats

JULY 2, 2024

At Jersey Scoops in Loleta, a small, unincorporated community in Northern California’s Humboldt County, the ice cream is as fresh as it gets. From pasture to parlor, its organic, butterfat-rich milk travels less than 10 miles, produced by a herd of Jerseys pasture-raised on the misty coast. The shop’s freshly churned ice cream—with surprising flavors like Foggy Pebbles, made with cereal-soaked milk, and Danish Butter Cookie—has been drawing crowds.

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USDA Blog

JULY 5, 2024

Growing up in Albany, Georgia, Bryan Hallman was surrounded by agriculture but had little exposure to the industry at school. He realized he was interested in pursuing a career in agriculture during his senior year of high school when a teacher told him about the U.S Department of Agriculture (USDA) 1890 National Scholars Program.

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Berkeley Blog

JULY 2, 2024

The warm, yet demanding, instructors of Cal Performances' Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp gave Camilo Eifler an early foundation to thrive in dance — and later, as a pro athlete. The post Dance prepared him for the NFL. It began with a Berkeley summer camp. appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 4, 2024

When Dave Van Belle hears the word ‘sustainability’ the first two things that come to his mind are environmental sustainability and economic sustainability. The two go hand in hand, says the president of Van Belle Nursery, a family-owned wholesale nursery located just north of Abbotsford, B.C. Over the last 50 years the business has grown.

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Western FarmPress

JULY 3, 2024

Sara Nicholson reminisces about wheat harvest and why, after 40 years, she keeps coming back. Plus, how she's using TikTok to tell her family's farming story.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

The next government should make sustainable food and farming key to the future economy, addressing climate change, restoring nature and re-building public health. Here, we break down the six commitments we want to see from the new administration. As we teeter on the edge of the next UK general election, the question for many farmers and, increasingly, a wider public concerned about unhealthy food, is whether food and farming will be a genuine priority for the next administration?

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Berkeley Blog

JULY 3, 2024

The next-generation microgravity printer — dubbed SpaceCAL — could help astronauts fabricate spare parts on the fly. The post Berkeley engineers send 3D printer into space appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 3, 2024

Beef Farmers of Ontario was the first to report that the labour union representing the 960 employees at the Cargill Dunlop processing plant and Cargill have reached a recommended memorandum of settlement. The settlement offer will be put to the membership for a vote on Saturday, July 6th. On X, BFO writes: “BFO is encouraged.

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Civil Eats

JULY 1, 2024

Gail Pratt is the oldest of seven sisters and the only one who didn’t learn to cook growing up. When a friend told her about a cooking class at The Good Life , an Oakland, California-based nonprofit offering healthy aging activities for older adults, she decided to enroll. For the past four years, 69-year-old Pratt has logged on most Thursday mornings from her kitchen, joining about 50 other women in her age group from all over the San Francisco Bay Area for an hourlong virtual lesson.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 1, 2024

Veterinary expert covers hurricane preparation tips to minimize disease risk The post Keep livestock safe during hurricane season with an emergency plan appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 2, 2024

Throughout the summer in the Golden, CO area, you might see a big box truck full of local fresh vegetables hosting a pay-what-you can farmer’s market. Affectionately called Chuck, GoFarm’s mobile market truck travels to low-income neighborhoods, schools, retirement homes, mobile home communities and more. It offers local produce that GoFarm sources from 80 to 90 farms every season, including small-scale urban farms, large family-owned farms and beginning farmers going through their incubator pro

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Real Agriculture

JULY 4, 2024

Olds College is receiving more than $3 million from the federal government to expand its Smart Farm operations in Saskatchewan and purchase new equipment for agricultural research. Dan Vandal, Minister of Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan), announced the funding at the school’s main campus at Olds, Alta., on Wednesday as part of a broader announcement.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JULY 2, 2024

The introduction by the Danish government of a cow carbon tax, announced last week, is in my opinion a deeply misguided decision. I’m sure it was well intentioned, but the truth is that introducing this tax may make it even more difficult for farming to move from being part of the problem (which it currently absolutely is) to being part of the solution.

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Berkeley Blog

JULY 5, 2024

Tampons from several brands that potentially millions of people use each month can contain toxic metals like lead, arsenic, and cadmium, a new study led by a UC Berkeley researcher has found. The post UC Berkeley study finds arsenic, lead, other toxic metals in tampons appeared first on Berkeley News.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 3, 2024

Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service horticulturist to replace retired host Skip Richter The post ‘Garden Success’ on KAMU-FM has new host; Stephen Brueggerhoff starts July 4 appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2024

It was a busy holiday week for BBQs both in Canada and the United States. The holidays, combined with a plant closure in Kansas, all amount to less beef being processed this week. While there wasn’t a report from USDA on Thursday, markets closed Wednesday night with choice cutout at six and a half dollars. Read More It was a busy holiday week for BBQs both in Canada and the United States.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 29, 2024

AI-powered farming solution results in higher yields and healthier produce by eliminating weed competition without chemical herbicides or soil disruption. The post Carbon Robotics’ LaserWeeders Eliminate Over 10 Billion Weeds appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Modern Farmer

JULY 1, 2024

Have you heard the tale about the midnight heist in Burgundy, where the thief clipped some pinot noir vines and smuggled them back to California in a Samsonite? In British Columbia, it’s more than an urban legend. It’s all true—the locals call the fruits of that caper the suitcase wines. They represent some of the oldest wines in North America, as the vines arrived in Italian immigrant Joe Busnardo’s suitcase in the late 1960s.

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Agri-tech

JULY 5, 2024

Questions on flower colour posed more than a century ago have been resolved by new research. A collaboration between the John Innes Centre and Plant & Food Research, Palmerston, New Zealand, used historical archives and modern molecular analysis to shed new light on the work of Erwin Baur, an early advocate for the new science of genetics. German scientist Baur was fascinated by garden.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 2, 2024

To pulse producers, grasshoppers represent both a significant challenge and a potential threat. With last year being hot and dry across the Prairies, growers are wondering what the current growing season will hold for these resilient crop consumers. Farmers and agronomists alike hope that the cool, wet spring might keep pulse crops safe from the. Read More To pulse producers, grasshoppers represent both a significant challenge and a potential threat.

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AgriLife Today

JULY 2, 2024

Seafood-consumption assessments among scientists’ presentations at leading health science conference The post Texas A&M Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Evidence Center debuts first suite of studies appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

JULY 3, 2024

Due to the hot weather and almost complete lack of rain other than a few scattered showers, much of the Southeast is now in drought or abnormally dry conditions other than southern Florida and a few other areas of Georgia and Alabama.

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Cropaia

JULY 4, 2024

Growing media, also known as growth substrates, play a crucial role in modern horticulture. They provide the necessary support, aeration, moisture and nutrients for plant roots, directly impacting plant health and productivity. Physically, growing media vary in texture, porosity, and particle size, influencing their ability to retain water and provide aeration.

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Real Agriculture

JULY 5, 2024

What’s the difference between targeted spraying and spot spraying? Chris Hansen, small grains agronomist with John Deere, says that it’s important to distinguish between a small-scale, handheld spot spray pass and the technology and field-level equipment required for targeted spray applications. There are also different levels of targeted spray offered by several companies, from the.

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Global Agtech Initiative

JUNE 30, 2024

Monarch’s autonomous tractors stay connected even in remote ag areas, leveraging the power of Verizon’s wireless networks. The post Verizon Business, Monarch Tractor Drive Sustainable Farming Practices Through Network Connectivity appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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