Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

What, itinerant expert livestock herders too? 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. Sicily is a bit like Rapa Nui and Lake Victoria.

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Farmers Weekly

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Farmers Weekly British maize growers can breathe a sigh of relief that three European seed treatments have been given the green light for UK use next year. UK regulators have granted emergency authorisations for: Korit – bird repellent Redigo M – fungicide Force ST – wireworm product.

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Food Politics

JULY 12, 2024

This is because “corporate controlled global food chains offer a flawed recipe for food security, and are full of risks and vulnerabilities: the exposure of industrial commodity production to climate shocks; the diversion of valuable resources into ultraprocessed foods, livestock feed, and fuel; the standardization of diets around wheat, rice, and (..)

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Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Why Jimmy Red maize is worth saving, despite its faults. The Seed System Lab at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences has lots of interesting resources on its new website. The latest on the Kenyan genebank’s sorghum work. Why wouldn’t Scotland have a crab apple genebank ? Yak cheese ? Yes, please.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Livestock also getting the genebank treatment in the US. They would help with malnutrition where maize biofortification hasn’t worked so well, for example. Maize needs to be decolonized , not biofortified. .” I wonder what it has to say about walnuts. Nut genebank gets an upgrade in Oregon. No, not walnuts, alas.

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Maize Livestock Food Crop 165

Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 3, 2024

Whole bunch of new maize races collected in Colombia. How to collect forestry seeds. The Türkiye national genebank in the news. Lots of collecting there. Though maybe not as much as in this genebank in China. But small communities need genebanks too. Here’s an example from Ghana. And another from India.

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Maize Seeding Science Forestry 157

Farmers Weekly

AUGUST 31, 2023

It had also held my wife Anna’s “Maize Maze” […] The post Farmer Focus: Milk price is clearly unsustainable appeared first on Farmers Weekly Farmers Weekly I should know by now that in farming, every time you think you have things under control something appears to cause extra problems.

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Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Farmers Weekly The maize is in the clamps. The yield monitor counted 730t freshweight off 12.14ha (30 acres), which is about 60t/ha. The best bits yielded more than 100t/ha at 34-36% dry matter. After 19 weeks in the ground, it is a massive yield for only 100kg/ha of purchased fertiliser.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Subsistence farmers primarily cultivate staple crops such as maize, rice, and beans, along with vegetables and livestock, to support their households.

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Agric4profits

MAY 21, 2024

Maize/Corn kernels are the seeds of the maize plant and are rich in carbohydrates, providing a significant source of energy for human consumption, livestock fee

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Maize Livestock Seeding Production 59

Agricultural Biodiversity

MARCH 26, 2024

For the Hopi, maize is an opportunity crop. More on the US push for opportunity crops. Oh look there’s a whole compendium on African opportunity crops from FAO. Many of them are roots and tubers. For the Adivasis, it’s rice. And more along the same lines from Odisha. Llamas were an opportunity for lots of people down the ages.

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Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Crops like maize – the primary staple food for many of the world’s people, particularly in lower latitudes – are especially at risk; by the end of the century, it’s possible that maize production could drop by as much as 24%.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Demanda Colectiva , Mexico The Demanda Colectiva has fought to protect Mexico’s native maize varieties, which are threatened by uncontrolled cross-pollination from genetically modified corn. Their work is focused on five priority areas: labor and human rights, employment creation, living wages, social protection, and social dialogue.

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