Agric4profits

MAY 23, 2024

The Maize/Corn Shoots originates from the seed during germination. As the seed absorbs water, it swells, and the embryonic shoot, called the plumule, begins to

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Agric4profits

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Zea Mays is the botanical name of maize also known as corn or sweet corn. It is an annual crop that produces white, yellow, or bi-colored seeds or kernels.

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Maize Seeding Production Crop 111

Agricultural Biodiversity

AUGUST 23, 2023

Spoiler alert: seeds. Let them eat grass. No, man, species of the Poaceae. Possibly unnecessary spoiler alert: New Zealand is taking the lead. The silver lining of Californian storm clouds.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Never thought I’d see the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Psychology Today , yet here we are. The Pacific’s regional genebank is set for more work on lesser-known crops. Too bad most of them won’t be able to go to Svalbard. How to make a genebank beautiful as well as sustainable. Australia has a rice genebank. For some reason.

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Food Tank

MARCH 20, 2024

Through ongoing engagement with community members, NAS began a seed banking initiative to help them work toward food sovereignty. Their training programs educate farmers on the value of seed banking, strengthening local understanding of seed systems, and helping producers establish independent seed banks in their own communities.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

JANUARY 24, 2024

Which is not to say working on staples like maize isn’t cool. And yes, seeds are indeed alive. Just ask Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra. Working on sweet potato can also be, well, sweet. Case in point: gorgeous book on the varieties of the Canaries. There’s an opportunity to help the Land Institute with its research on perennial crops.

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Seeding Maize Crop Science 100

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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Agricultural Biodiversity

JULY 4, 2023

Shout out for the Access Agriculture farmer-to-farmer educational video platform from the Seed System Newsletter. They would help with malnutrition where maize biofortification hasn’t worked so well, for example. Maize needs to be decolonized , not biofortified. Really no end to them. I bet you do. Or c**k beer.

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Maize Livestock Food Crop 165

Civil Eats

APRIL 22, 2024

Arizona has been at the forefront of conservation efforts, protecting CWRs on public lands like the WCBA, at botanical gardens like at the Desert Museum, and at seed banks. Farmers plant seeds deep in the soil, use passive rainwater harvesting, and rely on hardy desert-adapted seeds. Our seeds are very resilient,” said Johnson.

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Agri-tech

AUGUST 24, 2023

Research has brought clarity to the longstanding question of how starch granules form in the seeds of Triticeae crops – wheat, barley, and rye – unlocking diverse potential benefits for numerous industries and for human health.

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Agricultural Biodiversity

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Recalcitrant maize: Conserving agrobiodiversity in the era of genetically modified organisms. Public–private partnerships and genetically modified crop development for smallholder farmers in Africa. They really haven’t worked. But should they have?

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Seed detective Adam Alexander travels to the Kor çë region to discover how regenerative horticulture is holding up. Collective farms grew local varieties and saved the seed of landraces that flourished in the varied growing environments across the country. In many regions farmers began planting modern, imported cultivars.

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Seeding Food Maize Cultivation 124

Farmers Weekly

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Farmers Weekly Upgraded electronics on Vaderstad’s Tempo F, V and L high-speed precision drills are promised to deliver more accurate seeding. See also: Contractor modifies Vaderstad Tempo to […] The post Vaderstad updates popular Tempo precision drill line-up appeared first on Farmers Weekly

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Food Tank

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

In addition to growing millet, sorghum, maize, and other crops, they produce seeds to use the following year. Many, unfortunately, were resorting to eating the seeds they had intended to plant the following season. Many, unfortunately, were resorting to eating the seeds they had intended to plant the following season.

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Ohio State University

MARCH 29, 2024

In Nigeria, maize stands central to both the national diet and agricultural production, with smallholder farmers shouldering the majority of its cultivation. Conversations with them can offer valuable insights and broaden your academic perspective.”

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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%. That’s how populations thrive in nature.”

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Crop Maize Food Production 52

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 6, 2024

As part of my vocation here in Oaxaca, Mexico, I offer storytelling “sessions” about cacao and maize. Cacao is both a tree that houses unprocessed seed matter, while chocolate is (at least) cacao seed that has been ground into either food or drink. Countless clients have asked me if I “do” (i.e.,

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 30, 2023

Because of the political and scientific focus on staple grain production, just three crops (wheat, rice and maize) make up almost half of global calorie consumption. Of the more than 200,000 edible plant species , people today rely on just 15 for almost all of their regular food intake.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When I arrived in Mexico City nine years ago to research the effort by citizen groups to stop multinational seed companies from planting genetically modified corn in Mexico, the groups had just won an injunction to suspend planting permits. They know maize is different.” He said with a smile, “The judge surely eats tacos. He was right.

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Food Tank

APRIL 10, 2024

In 2019, Mexico enacted a Federal Law for the Promotion and Protection of Native Maize. Yields of non-GM corn are comparable to GM corn , according to seed industry sources, and can earn a premium price estimated at 10-20 percent higher than GM varieties. Unlike in the U.S., Rather than face economic harm, U.S.

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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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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. The organization operates their Farmer Training Centre and community seed banks. food culture.

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