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The Agronomists, Ep 155: Plant growth regulators with Jeremy Boychyn and Marijke Vanderlaan 

Real Agriculture

A plant growth regulator (PGR) can play a key role in helping growers manage the impact of lodging in spring and winter wheat crops. But growers have plenty of management decisions to consider to effectively use a PGR to reduce lodging, increase harvestability and protect and increase grain yield. Read More

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The Business Behind the Farm Visit

Modern Farmer

For example, if they sell tickets to a farm dinner and prepare guests food made from the produce harvested on the farm, this can’t exceed 25 percent of their “farm stand” income. But it is OK to call it a “harvest festival featuring a live music performance.” What is a fertilized egg? The farm stay at Leaping Lamb Farm.

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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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