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Corn School: Tackling tar spot with disease tracking technology

Real Agriculture

But weather and technology also play a key role in helping growers defend their crops against the foliar disease. But weather and technology also play a key role in helping growers defend their crops against the foliar disease. Genetics and fungicides are the two pillars of disease defence when it comes to yield robbers like tar spot.

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Alberta’s Living Lab project quantifying soil building benefits of bale grazing, adding alfalfa

Real Agriculture

In spring 2021, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) announced funding to expand its Living Labs initiative to every province. Today, organizations tasked with connecting farmers, scientists, and other stakeholders to advance sustainable, environmentally friendly on-farm practices and technologies are starting to see preliminary results.

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Brainfood: Ag and CC, Improved varieties, Yield growth, Food system transformation, CGIAR maize, Genetic erosion, NBSAPs, Technology & conservation, Cattle breeding

Agricultural Biodiversity

Yield growth patterns of food commodities: Insights and challenges. Governance and resilience as entry points for transforming food systems in the countdown to 2030. Exploring the role of technology in the trade-off between biodiversity and poverty alleviation across countries. And yes, genetic diversity is a technology.

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Food warning labels in action: Mexico

Food Politics

I could hardly wait to get to the nearby Chedraui supermarket to see what the Mexican warning labels on food packages looked like in practice. Public health officials hope the warning labels will alert the public to avoid overconsuming processed foods. Food companies are doing everything they can to hide the warning labels.

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Soybean School: Scouting for fringe weeds maximizes herbicide tolerant technology

Real Agriculture

New herbicide tolerant technology such as Enlist and Xtend soybean systems have helped solve significant management challenges, especially when it comes to tackling glyphosate resistant Canada fleabane and waterhemp.

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The red/blue divide in American food choices?

Food Politics

For example: Overall, foods were perceived as liberal when they: Symbolized privilege Signaled entitlement Were associated with liberal causes (e.g., California) Is viewed as technologically advanceed America;s divisions, they conclude, are rooted in distinct world views. The post The red/blue divide in American food choices?

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Climate and food security concerns prompting new openness to technology in agriculture

Real Agriculture

Approval of a biotechnology reform bill in the European Parliament last month has been hailed as a major breakthrough toward allowing “new genomic techniques,” such as gene-editing, to be used in crop breeding in Europe. The bill still faces an uphill battle to become law across the European Union, but the vote was one example.