Real Agriculture

MAY 22, 2024

Fast-moving, highly destructive stripe rust is popping up in winter wheat fields across Ontario. RealAgriculture agronomist Peter Johnson says the disease is a significant threat to the crop and can cause up to 50 per cent yield loss if not managed properly. He stresses that timely fungicide applications are crucial for controlling the disease. In. Read More Fast-moving, highly destructive stripe rust is popping up in winter wheat fields across Ontario.

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Food Politics

MAY 23, 2024

Since we are talking this week about the Farm Bill, take a look at this report from the Union of Concerned Scientists: Cultivating Control: Corporate Lobbying on the Food and Farm Bill. Its major findings: Interest groups spent more than $523 million on Farm Bill issues between 2019 and 2023. Agribusiness spends more on lobbying than the gas or oil industries. 561 groups reported lobbying on Farm Bill issues.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

MAY 20, 2024

Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers’ Forum (ESAFF) launches SEED GIST , a quarterly repository of seed literature. A fun romp through potato history. A fun romp through coffee history. Hong Kong gets some rice seeds back from the IRRI genebank. No doubt Iraq will get some seeds back from the ICARDA genebank soon. Genebanks are only the beginning though.

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NASDA

MAY 24, 2024

Letter Dear Under Secretary Jacobs-Young: We, the undersigned organizations and associations represent a broad array of food producers, processors, and marketers as well as state departments of agriculture working cooperatively to address the unintentional presence of heavy metals in certain food products. We recently engaged with Steve Zeng, Division Director of the Food Safety Division as part of our engagement on issues surrounding heavy metals and we wanted to follow up on that conversation.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 22, 2024

Op-ed submitted byy Ian Boxall, president of Agriculture Producers Association of Saskatchewan In a recent op-ed, Gregory Heckman, CEO of Bunge, defended the proposed merger between Bunge and Viterra, arguing that the combination would mean investment and growth for Canadian agriculture, particularly in Saskatchewan. While the optimism from a corporate standpoint is expected, given that.

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Food Politics

MAY 24, 2024

The first line in this report says it all: “This Global Report on Food Crises is a roll call of human failings.” It does not get cheerier: “In 2023, 281.6 million people, or 21.5 percent of the analyzed population faced high levels of acutte food insecurity in 59 food-crisis countries/territories.” This report does not make for easy reading, but we need to face the realities: conflicts, weather extremes, economic shocks, and decreased humanitarian funding.

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Berkeley Blog

MAY 20, 2024

By the end of this Wednesday, vote for your favorite set of four names; the winning set will be announced Thursday. The post Ready, set, vote! Here are your choices to name Berkeley’s new falcon quadruplets. appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

It seems that when the spring hits each year, images start showing up on social media asking if a newly discovered arachnid might be a tick. While ticks have been a common sight in Ontario and Manitoba for a while now, they seem to be venturing further west as they travel on migratory birds. Along. Read More It seems that when the spring hits each year, images start showing up on social media asking if a newly discovered arachnid might be a tick.

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Food Politics

MAY 21, 2024

Last week, the FDA essentially took tara flour out of the food supply. Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) posted on its website its determination that tara flour in human food does not meet the Generally Recognized As Safe (or GRAS) standard and is an unapproved food additive. The FDA’s assessment of the ingredient is detailed in a memo added to the agency’s public inventory.

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USDA Blog

MAY 22, 2024

Yimmuaj Yang, community director of the Wisconsin-based nonprofit and community organization Groundswell Conservancy, explains its mission in the simplest terms: “We protect special places forever.

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NASDA

MAY 23, 2024

The Connecticut Department of Agriculture is hiring for a State Veterinarian. The State Veterinarian directs the overall responsibility of the Animal Health and Livestock Division, performing administrative, supervisory, financial, technical and professional duties relative to functions of the Department of Agriculture. This individual educates the public on the prevention, control and eradication of contagious and infectious diseases, and the regulation of livestock programs within the state.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 23, 2024

Governments in many countries are enacting policies aimed at mitigating climate change — massive subsidies, carbon levies, and strict regulations — that also have consequences on trade flows. Billions of dollars of incentives in the Inflation Reduction Act in the U.S., the Canadian government’s carbon taxes, and the EU’s biofuel feedstock requirements and carbon border.

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Ohio State University

MAY 21, 2024

AEDE is proud to share that Professor Brian Roe has been elected to serve a term as President of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. Brian is the Fred N. VanBuren Professor of Farm Management, was chosen as an AAEA Fellow, served as an editor of the American Journal of Agricultural Economics , and leads major research and policy initiatives on sustainable food systems.

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Civil Eats

MAY 22, 2024

Seven years ago, Tyson—one of the largest chicken producers in the world— made headlines with its commitment to “eliminate antibiotics in chicken.” Then, last summer, the company changed its policy : Instead of “no antibiotics ever” (referred to as NAE in the industry), Tyson’s farmers would go back to using antibiotics. They would refrain only from using drugs considered “important in human medicine.

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Berkeley Blog

MAY 21, 2024

Designed to boost entrepreneurship, the Spark Awards this year are getting a boost from a new deep tech funding platform The post Bakar Fellows program partners with Academic Innovation Catalyst to announce 2024 Spark Awards appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

The prime minister announced the appointment of a new deputy minister for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) on Friday. Lawrence Hanson, currently associate deputy minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, has been chosen to replace Stefanie Beck, effective June 3, 2024, as the top bureaucrat in the federal agriculture department. Beck is moving on.

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Ohio State University

MAY 23, 2024

A recent evaluation by AEDE Associate Professor Anne Fitzpatrick , summarized here shows how to improve learning in secondary schools in India Background Existing evaluations from primary schools show that teaching children at their learning level instead of grade level can significantly improve overall educational achievement ( Banerjee et al. 2017 , Banerjee et al. 2010, Duflo et al. 2020 , Duflo et al. 2011, Lakshminarayana et al. 2013 ).

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Civil Eats

MAY 21, 2024

There’s not enough coffee in the world. In 2023, the world produced 3 percent less than it consumed. Growing consumer demand in Asia exacerbates the deficit, while climate change affects supply. Coffee is susceptible to heat and drought. It needs predictable conditions to thrive, and conditions now are anything but predictable. Heat and novel rain patterns harm plants and encourage coffee rust , a devastating fungal disease.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 21, 2024

The APRES annual meeting is set for July 9-11 in Oklahoma City. The early registration deadline is nearing. Peanut topics to be covered include soil conservation, climate resources, and aquifer health.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

It only takes a split second of inattention, spurred by rushing or fatigue, for a near-miss to become a life-altering event. If that sounds dramatic, so be it. I’m not sure I’ve ever spoken to someone who has been in a farm accident who said they saw it coming. Too often we think we’re fast.

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Berkeley Blog

MAY 23, 2024

Genetic screen identifies many mutations associated with autoimmune diseases that could help target therapy The post Tracking down the genetic causes of lupus to personalize treatment appeared first on Berkeley News.

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CABI

MAY 23, 2024

In Nepal, digital tools are strengthening agricultural advisory services by providing timely information, facilitating remote training, and promoting the dissemination of best practices and innovations efficiently and widely. PlantwisePlus has been developing and updating various digital tools to support agricultural extension workers, private-sector farm advisory service providers, plant protection officers, farmers, researchers, and students.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 23, 2024

I would like to focus my attention in this article on the environment and plant metabolism as they relate to some of the 2024 production season issues that many growers have experienced.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

The Manitoba Crop Alliance is now four years old and the amalgamation of five producer groups is moving on from getting itself up and running, to charting big things for its next strategic plan. The organization that represents spring and winter wheat, flax, sunflower and barley growers in Manitoba has a focused vision for the. Read More The Manitoba Crop Alliance is now four years old and the amalgamation of five producer groups is moving on from getting itself up and running, to charting big t

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Food Tank

MAY 18, 2024

Swipe Out Hunger is a nonprofit organization in the United States working to build a movement of university students that advocate for improved food security on college campuses. The organization is empowering students to push for the Hunger Free Campus Act and implement creative solutions for food security on campuses. “This movement is particularly looking at how we can increase the availability of public benefits resources, food resources, things like healthcare, housing, childcare, and trans

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USDA Blog

MAY 22, 2024

May is World Trade Month and this is World Trade Week – a perfect opportunity to celebrate U.S. agriculture’s trade successes and highlight the importance of trade to the farm sector and to our nation as whole. After all, about 20 percent of all U.S. agricultural production is exported, providing a critical source of farm income, supporting more than a million jobs, and generating nearly $200 billion in additional economic activity each year in our rural communities and beyond.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 22, 2024

Ag Marketing IQ: Delayed planting decreases opportunity for grain crops to yield at trendline, but the market also needs strong demand to move the needle on price.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

It seems that everywhere you go right now, farmers are talking about cover crops. Producers across the country are not only using a diverse plant mix to provide feed for livestock, but also as potential solutions to compaction, a lack of nutrient availability, and to address weed issues in their fields. In this Farming Forward. Read More It seems that everywhere you go right now, farmers are talking about cover crops.

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Ohio State University

MAY 24, 2024

On May 15, 2024, Dr. Anna Parkman was reappointed as full Professor of Practice in the department of Agricultural, Environmental, and Development Economics (AEDE) and the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences (CFAES). Dr. Parkman was promoted to full Professor of Practice in May of 2023. In her seven years in AEDE she has been an inspiring classroom instructor and student internship coordinator.

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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

MAY 21, 2024

As hurricane season approaches, many of you may be wondering how tropical storms and hurricanes form and what factors are important in determining when and where they develop as well as how they move. Here are a couple of articles that give good descriptions of how hurricanes form listed below.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 20, 2024

One area includes specific portions of Benzie and Manistee counties, and the other includes portions of Crawford and Otsego counties.

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Real Agriculture

MAY 21, 2024

North American cattle industry representative met last week in Mexico to attend the Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Ganaderas’ (CNOG) annual meeting and a trilateral meeting between the parties. Up for discussion was sustainable global trade that encourages efficient production practices, as well as focusing on protecting herds from animal diseases, such as foot-and-mouth and lumpy.

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Global Agtech Initiative

MAY 20, 2024

With traditional water sources increasingly threatened by a number of risks, smart technologies are vital to safeguarding supplies. The post Smart Methods for Securing Sources of Clean Water in Sustainable Food Production appeared first on Global Ag Tech Initiative.

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Climate and Agriculture in the Southeast

MAY 23, 2024

NOAA released their seasonal forecast for the Atlantic tropical season today. As expected, it shows that a very active season is expected, with 17 to 25 named storms expected and 8-13 hurricanes likely. This matches the forecast by Colorado State issued a few weeks ago.

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Western FarmPress

MAY 20, 2024

COTTON SPIN: May milestone. Economist John Robinson estimates the planted acreage to be higher than WASDE's estimates. If so, will export demand be enough to balance out a larger crop in the U.S. and other countries?

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Real Agriculture

MAY 24, 2024

Rain makes grain, sure, but rain also makes green grass and that makes for a very happy Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange who joins Shaun Haney for this episode of the Beef Market Update. Green grass in many parts of the Prairies is a welcome change compared to the last few years, and. Read More Rain makes grain, sure, but rain also makes green grass and that makes for a very happy Anne Wasko of the Gateway Livestock Exchange who joins Shaun Haney for this episode of the Beef Market U

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Food Tank

MAY 24, 2024

A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe now by clicking here. This is the year of food is medicine. The Food is Medicine Institute in Boston, MA, held the second annual Food is Medicine National Summit this year; the United States Department of Health and Human Services convened its first-ever summit on the topic, and Food Tank has organized discu

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