Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Itinerant expert harvesters spread agriculture into Anatolia. No word on the role of expert harvesters. Archaeological findings show the extent of primitive characteristics of maize in South America. Maize arrived in lowland South America in a pre-domesticated state, and stayed like that for a long time.

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Maize Crop Fertilizer Harvest 160

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 11, 2023

Farmers Weekly Last year’s sub-par maize yields have forced anaerobic digester (AD) plants to expand their acreages to shore up dwindling feedstock supplies, and that has meant more work for P Russon & Sons.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Farmers Weekly We are currently drawing to the end of the maize; it will be a welcome end to this year’s harvest. Maize yields have varied, and it has taught us lessons for the future. Then we can fully focus on next year’s crops.

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Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As part of my vocation here in Oaxaca, Mexico, I offer storytelling “sessions” about cacao and maize. Recently harvested cacao pods collected in a sack, ready to be carried to the village for fermenting. A local farmer carrying his cacao harvest home on a local road. Countless clients have asked me if I “do” (i.e.,

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Harvest Harvesting Harvester Food 83

Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Changing practices In the last 30 years, Albania has moved from growing exclusively local varieties of arable crops, specifically cereals and maize, to importing 80% of its seed. The great diversity of open-pollinated varieties of maize are now lost – bar a handful in mountainous regions. Yet, unique and important varieties survive.

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Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 124

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

On a farm in West Wales, Nathan Richards (pictured) is beginning to harvest his first small commercial crop of peaches and nectarines. Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are increasingly likely , linked to a strongly meandering jet stream which can trigger concurrent extreme weather events.

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Crop Maize Food Production 52

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Farmers plant seeds deep in the soil, use passive rainwater harvesting, and rely on hardy desert-adapted seeds. a) teosinte and maize (Zea mays); b) chilli pepper (Capsicum annuum); c) common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris); d) cotton (Gossypium hirsutum). Our seeds are very resilient,” said Johnson.

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Seeding Crop Agriculture Agriculture 132

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

If the biotech companies defeat maize in its center of origin, it will embolden them to do the same in other centers of origin,” said Tania Monserrat Téllez, an organizer with Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais (Without Corn, There Is No Nation), a coalition of groups in Mexico supporting the ban. Photo by Omar Torres/AFP via Getty Images.

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