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The Business Behind the Farm Visit

Modern Farmer

Visitors to Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island just outside of Portland, Oregon last October didn’t encounter a corn maze but rather a kid’s maze cut through a field of sorghum. It’s easier on the soil, explains Kat Topaz, who owns the farm along with Jim Abeles. We call ourselves an ‘experience farm,’” says Topaz.

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SEEN IN SOUTH AFRICA

The Lunatic Farmer

Of course, I’m always going to speak so my hosts take care of meals, lodging, tickets, etc. What I do is visit farms and look for cutting edge practical ecological solutions. I spent a couple of days at a permaculture farm in East London where a guy built a gasification unit to run a generator. No souvenirs, no museums, nothing.

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Precision Ag News 1/10

Agwired

In a significant development for agricultural technology, NODAR announces its next-generation solutions for the farming industry, powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics. Crop Nutrition Week returns February 5-9 with more experts, more insights, more fertilizer management strategies and more prizes to win.

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The U.S.-Mexico tortilla war

Food Environment and Reporting Network

Unable to muscle Mexico City into reversing course, the US trade representative, Katherine Tai, last August lodged a formal complaint with the secretariat of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). It alleges that Mexico’s decree constitutes a trade violation that infringes on the superseding rights of US farmers and biotechnology companies.

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The Solution to Water Woes Could Lie With Beavers

Modern Farmer

Flood waters gain momentum, overflowing banks and causing destruction and massive erosion, washing away critical topsoil, not to mention farms, homes and other infrastructure. Six more beavers were released, which went on to build their own dams and lodges. Beaver ponds lessen the concentration of such pollutants, says Boucher.

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