Food Politics
AUGUST 31, 2023
Now that Barbie is a feminist icon, I have to confess I have two of them in my NYU office. At one point I must have owned three, because here is an illustration from my book, Food Politics, published in 2002. The feet on the MacDonald’s Barbie are flat—she’s wearing sneakers, appropriately for a doll on her feet all day. The Oreo purse is a nice touch.
Farmers Weekly
AUGUST 31, 2023
Farmers Weekly Policymakers have been accused of ignoring the scientific evidence when it comes to moorland burning, and of pandering to special interest groups “which regularly ignore or distort evidence in order to outlaw the practice”.
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Real Agriculture
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
European corn borer wreaked havoc for decades in cornfields across North America before the adoption of transgenic traits (Bt) in the late 1990s effectively punched out the pest. Earlier this year at Southwest Crop Diagnostic Days at the University of Guelph’s Ridgetown campus, Ontario ministry of agriculture entomologist Tracey Baute noted that the yield-robbing insect.
Agricultural Biodiversity
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Our friends at World Agroforestry (the centre formerly known as ICRAF) have been very busy with their data wrangling in support of policy recommendations. So much so, in fact, that it may be getting complicated for outsiders to keep all their information products straight, so here’s a quick recap. Let’s start with the premise that we need more trees.
Food Politics
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
I just bought a copy of this book, mainly because I like reading everything Cliff Wright writes. One of his previous books about Italian Cooking, A Mediterranean Feast, won two James Beard awards in 2000, one of them Cookbook of the Year, deservedly. This one is a doorstop at 1191 pages and 5.6 pounds. But no need to be intimidated. The structure is quite straightforward.
Farmers Weekly
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Farmers Weekly This article contains an image and references that may be disturbing to some readers. A farming couple have been left devastated after one of their female cows was executed in an attack on a farm in Lancashire.
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 30, 2023
Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday episode of RealAg Radio! On today’s show, Lyndsey Smith goes over the top ag news stories and gives us a quick update on the Farm Progress Show. We will also hear from: Brunel Sabourin on his #30videosin30days; Brian Comeault with Farmer Business Network, on the StatsCan figures on. Read More Thanks for tuning in to this Wednesday episode of RealAg Radio!
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Food Politics
AUGUST 30, 2023
I received an email from the USDA about what it is doing about school meals for the fall (and see ALSO at the end of this post). It included links or attachments to resources. Lifting Up School Meals: key messages, calendar of themes for Fall 2023, and links to resources Media Toolkit : Includes videos, social media content, flyers, fact sheets, and b-roll School Meals Webpage : Hub for all things school meals Healthy Meals Incentives : overall description Grantees, Funding Amounts, by
Farmers Weekly
AUGUST 31, 2023
Farmers Weekly Frontrunners to be the next NFU president will have had their notepads out this week to analyse what is shaping up to be a contender for the most effective bit of lobbying of the year – from their opposite numbers at the Home Builders Federation.
Real Agriculture
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Four Canadian researchers have been paired with mentors in the industry through the Beef Cattle Research Council’s (BCRC) Beef Researcher Mentorship Program. The program links new researchers with two mentors working in relevant areas of the Canadian beef industry. Part of the mentorship award also includes a travel budget to attend industry events and actively.
Jayson Lusk
AUGUST 31, 2023
That’s the title of a new article by David Just released by the European Review of Agricultural Economics , and the subject of David’s keynote at the European Association of Agricultural Economics Meeting this week in France. He writes: “ Throughout the early 2000s, many departments of agricultural economics reduced their faculty size and some prominent departments began to generalise their focus to cover applied economics broadly and/or diminish their emphasis on agriculture in particular.
Food Politics
AUGUST 28, 2023
A reader, Emma Calvert, a Senior Food Policy Officerfor the European Union in Brussels, sent me “ this article. She also pointed me to the article Food Navigator wrote about it: “Review hails health benefits of beer-gut alliance.” Eager to find out what the “beer-gut alliance” might be, I went right to it. The study: Beer-gut microbiome alliance: a discussion of beer-mediated immunomodulation via the gut microbiome.
Farmers Weekly
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Farmers Weekly A first-of-its-kind autonomous drone course, which equips participants with practical skills for agricultural drone operations, has taken flight at a UK agricultural University. The course is a collaboration between Drone Spray Precision in partnership with Harper Adams University and teaches partakers how to safely and effectively operate drones for sowing, spraying and fertiliser spreading.
Real Agriculture
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
John Deere is giving hay producers more control of bale moisture and weights with the introduction of its 1 Series round baler. Equipped with Bale Doc technology to document bale moisture and weight in near real time, Deere says the 1 Series will help farmers ensure optimal moisture levels and consistent bale weights are maintained. Read More John Deere is giving hay producers more control of bale moisture and weights with the introduction of its 1 Series round baler.
NASDA
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Press Release ARLINGTON, Va. — The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture is excited to announce the hiring of Becky Garrison Warfel, RDN, LD, a licensed and registered dietitian nutritionist, as Director of Public Policy. As Director, Garrison Warfel will advance the organization’s public policy advocacy with her experience in marketing and federal affairs with the USA Dry Pea & Lentil Council and history serving as a community nutrition advisor for the University of
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 31, 2023
Eerily empty, abandoned fields stretch across the coast of the southeast United States, replacing once sprawling fields of golden wheat, corn and soybeans. For centuries, farmers have favored the rich soil of coastal areas during the growing season. “It’s very fertile soil, especially in some areas that are called the ‘black lands.’ These are really deep organic soils that formed on the coast over millennia,” says Michael Gavazzi, coordinator of the USDA Southeast Climate Hub coordinator
Farmers Weekly
AUGUST 31, 2023
Farmers Weekly I should know by now that in farming, every time you think you have things under control something appears to cause extra problems. Poor weather at the end of July was holding off harvest and pushing all the field work into a tighter and tighter window.
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 31, 2023
If you followed along on the ProFarmer yield tour last week, you’ll know that temperatures were not kind to the field scouts, with day time temps soaring well above 100 degrees F. Ted Seifried, chief market strategist for Zaner Ag Hedge, has been on the tour nine times, and says this has to be one. Read More If you followed along on the ProFarmer yield tour last week, you’ll know that temperatures were not kind to the field scouts, with day time temps soaring well above 100 degrees F
Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
With CBD craze subsiding, fabric and feed grain may be crop’s best uses.
Modern Farmer
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Dr. Jim Cane is out in the squash fields before the sun peeks out over the eastern horizon. He knows that if he starts early, he can find male squash bees sleeping within the collapsed husks of yesterday’s squash flowers. Cane is a research entomologist. He’s spent much of his career as a bee specialist with the US Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and he’s an authority on the agricultural benefits of many of the 3,600 diverse species of wild, native bees, including
Farmers Weekly
AUGUST 27, 2023
Farmers Weekly Our machinery editor, Oliver Mark, rounds up the latest news from the farm machinery dealerships across the UK. Find out about the latest acquisitions, expansions and partnerships in your area. See also: Which is biggest?
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 30, 2023
It hurts RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson to talk about broadcasting winter wheat seed into standing soybeans, but growers have been peppering him with questions about the practice. Johnson would rather see growers plant wheat with a drill but with many Ontario soybean fields “green as grass” as the calendar turns to September, in some areas.
AgriLife Today
AUGUST 31, 2023
Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences leads search for cutting-edge genetic tools for flowering plants Cristiane Taniguti, Ph.D., is doing her part to revolutionize the field of genetic analysis of polyploid plants with her software tool, VIEWpoly. These plants are everywhere in daily life. Polyploids have more than two identical or similar chromosome sets.
Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Farm Progress editors fanned out and canvassed the 90-acre exhibit field (and beyond) to gather all the best new products for farmers. Here are their very favorite picks from the big three-day show.
Farmers Weekly
AUGUST 26, 2023
Farmers Weekly This has been the harvest that nearly broke me. Talk about stress: only in farming can you have so much disappointment after so much promise. This year’s harvest had its potential decimated in the last six weeks of the growing season.
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 29, 2023
A new Steiger tractor with more power and speed leads the 2024 Case IH lineup as the machinery manufacturer looks to deliver more purposeful design, technology, and performance. This week at the Farm Progress Show in Decatur, Illinois, farmers will get their first look at the most powerful tractor Case IH has ever produced —.
Food and Farming Technology
AUGUST 30, 2023
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Western FarmPress
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Distance from Hurricane Idalia’s eye and the storm’s path made a difference in agricultural losses.
Farmers Weekly
AUGUST 26, 2023
Farmers Weekly Farming-mad Thomas, aged 9, is pictured following every minute of the harvest at his family farm in Norfolk on board a paddle board. Thomas is a fourth-generation farmer in the making and enjoys “carpet farming” at home, replicating the farming activities with his scale-model toys.
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 28, 2023
North American farmers will get their first look at New Holland’s new all-electric utility tractor with autonomous features when they visit the Farm Progress show this week held at Decatur, Illinois. New Holland is billing its T4 Electric Power tractor as a “game-changing innovation” that creates a new tractor class — utility electric.
NASDA
AUGUST 30, 2023
The twenty-sixth annual Innovative Dairy Farmer of the Year award is open for nominations of active U.S. dairy farms that have embraced innovation, technology and industry collaboration and partnerships, to achieve greater productivity and growth. Nominees will be judged on current methods and their positioning to meet future economic and business challenges.
Modern Farmer
AUGUST 31, 2023
What’s cover cropping all about, anyway? As with many eco initiatives, what was old is new again: Cover crops (or fallow season plantings; see more below) were first used during the Roman Empire as a way to boost the soil quality in vineyards. In the United States, the practice was relatively common from the 1860s through the 1950s before it was replaced by synthetic fertilizers and different crop management techniques.
Farmers Weekly
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Farmers Weekly The link between inorganic fertiliser use in farming and greenhouse gas emissions is being highlighted in a new campaign by the Soil Association, designed to change government policy and influence consumer buying choices.
Real Agriculture
AUGUST 29, 2023
And just like that, we’re onto the last episode of The Agronomists for the month of August. Time flies when we’re having fun, hopefully you all are, too! For this episode of The Agronomists, host Lyndsey Smith is joined by Brunel Sabourin of Antara Agronomy, and Peter “Wheat Pete” Johnson of RealAgriculture, to discuss when. Read More And just like that, we’re onto the last episode of The Agronomists for the month of August.
NASDA
AUGUST 30, 2023
News Article The First International Conference on AgTech and Agri Food Development in Vietnam is being organized by the Center of Vietnam Science & Technology Promotion of the Ministry of Science and Technology in Ha Noi, Vietnam in cooperation with the U.S.-Vietnam Business Council in San Jose, California. NASDA supported the development of this event.
AgriLife Today
AUGUST 31, 2023
Collaborative leadership to advance plant and environmental health After a nationwide search, Won Bo Shim, Ph.D., has been named head of the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology in the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, effective Sept. 1. Shim has served as the interim head of the department for the past year, Read More → The post Shim named head of Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology first appeared on AgriLife Today.
Farmers Weekly
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
Farmers Weekly Setting the record straight on some of the misconceptions around livestock, dairy and poultry production is the aim of a new NFU initiative aimed at improving the public perception of animal farming.
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