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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Food Politics
JULY 1, 2024
I saw this one in a newsletter: Ashwagandha intake linked to memory and attention benefits: Acute and repeated supplementation with liposomal ashwagandha may boost select cognitive effects, including memory, attention, vigilance and reaction time in healthy adults, says a new study…. Read more The study: Leonard, M.; Dickerson, B.; Estes, L.; Gonzalez, D.E.; Jenkins, V.; Johnson, S.; Xing, D.; Yoo, C.; Ko, J.; Purpura, M.; et al.
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.
Food Tank
JULY 1, 2024
Food Tank just returned from an inspiring day of discussions at Food Tank’s first Annual London Climate Action Week Summit, held in partnership with Google Cloud and Nomad Foods, in collaboration with Compass Group, Oatly, and the Sustainable Food Trust, and advised by the Center for Food Policy at City, University of London. I’ll start by sharing one of my favorite lines of the day: Just crying about climate change is not enough.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
Real Agriculture
JULY 4, 2024
Big corn acres in the U.S. and dandy looking crops in the west have created a bit of a supply issue for markets, one that could be helped by some serious export demand. Whether or not that demand materializes as prices fall is the billion dollar question. For this early July grain market update, we. Read More Big corn acres in the U.S. and dandy looking crops in the west have created a bit of a supply issue for markets, one that could be helped by some serious export demand.
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.
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
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.
Real Agriculture
JULY 3, 2024
Nutrients such as nitrogen and phosphorous move quite differently though the soil and understanding how they travel is key to helping growers choose the best application strategies. Phosphorous, for example, tends to be more like a tortoise, moving slow and methodically through the soil. Nitrogen, on the other hand, is the hare, racing quickly through.
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.
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.
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.
Real Agriculture
JULY 4, 2024
When out walking corn fields, growers will often come across what look like branches off of the main stalk of the plants. Tillers can be found on many grass plants, and while being an essential part of other crops, producers often do not know what to make of seeing them in their corn crop. In. Read More When out walking corn fields, growers will often come across what look like branches off of the main stalk of the plants.
Western FarmPress
JULY 2, 2024
Estate Plan Edge: Three changes can occur over time that will undermine your plan’s “yield,” including changes in the legal environment, changes to your life and changes in experience.
Agri-tech
JULY 3, 2024
In today’s blog, we hear from Aston Saini, a ‘Professional Internships for PhD Students’ placement student who recently spent three months working within the John Innes Centre policy team. Aston explores what his experience taught him about the ways researchers can engage with policy makers, as well as how crucial this aspect of science is in the modern age as we attempt to.
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.
Real Agriculture
JULY 2, 2024
Soybeans are one crop that have had a pretty excellent decade. Managing the crop at the field level is a farmer’s job, but ensuring the crop moves freely and on-demand globally is part of what Soy Canada does. Brian Innes is the executive director for Soy Canada, which held its annual general meeting and a. Read More Soybeans are one crop that have had a pretty excellent decade.
Western FarmPress
JULY 5, 2024
As of June 25, the North Carolina Drought Management Advisory Council reports that 99 of the 100 counties in the state are currently being affected by drought.
Agri-tech
JULY 5, 2024
Our Friday Seminar on 12th July at 11:30am is the OPEN lecture: How to fight a virus: lessons from bacteria with Prof. Malcolm White, University of St Andrews Location: Merton Auditorium and Zoom (No registration is required to attend in person. If you are attending via Zoom, please register: [link] Speaker: Malcolm White, University of St Andrews Bio: Malcolm White is a.
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.
Real Agriculture
JULY 5, 2024
Farmers and ranchers are responsible for managing the land they own or rent, including ecologically sensitive areas such as riparian areas and wetlands. These areas aren’t always easy to identify, and some of these areas may currently be cultivated and producing crops. Each province has its own goals on conservation of different areas, and there.
Western FarmPress
JULY 1, 2024
Cattle producers continue the long road to recovery following February's devastating wildfires in the Texas Panhandle. Cattle losses range from 10,000 to 15,000 head. Replacing cattle will take time and money.
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