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Precision Ag News 12/21

Agwired

bushels per acre in this year’s annual National Corn Growers Association yield contest with Pioneer brand corn product P14830VYHR. David Hula of Charles City, Virginia, set a new world record of 623.84 Hula crushed his previous world record of 616 bushels per acre set in 2019 with the Pioneer brand P1197 family of products.

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Changing How We Farm Might Protect Wild Mammals—and Fight Climate Change

Civil Eats

Pesticides can harm or kill mammals and can also reduce prey and attract invasive species that compete with native mammals for resources, explained Gaurav Singh-Varma, a researcher at the University of British Columbia. And that’s not the only bad news.

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Opinion: To Find the Future of Food, We Need to Look to the Past

Modern Farmer

According to the techno-optimists, hacking photosynthesis by genetically modifying rubisco, the enzyme found in all plants that turn sunlight and carbon dioxide into starches, proteins, and other nutrients will allow us to radically increase rice yields in Asia. I’d arrived in mid-May, just as the reddish-orange poppies were blooming.

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