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B.C. and Alberta farmers named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers for 2023

Real Agriculture

Greg and Sarah Stamp from Stamp Seeds, of Enchant, Alta., and Brad and Travis Hopcott from Hopcott Farms, of Pitt Meadows, B.C. were chosen as the national winners of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmer (OYF) Program. The national event was held at Laval, Que., over the weekend, and featured the seven regional farm finalists. What began.

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How to Grow, Use and Care for Wild Oat Grass (Avena fatua)

Agric4profits

Wild oat (Avena fatua) is a plant that grows in fields and meadows. It has long, slender stems with loose clusters of seeds at the top. The seeds resemble oats

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Meet the Flavor-Focused Farmers Cultivating More Than a Thousand Crops

Modern Farmer

The fields at Norwich Meadows Farm, however, are more akin to a time capsule—or even a treasure chest. The motivation behind the astonishing array of fruits and vegetables at Norwich Meadows Farm has always been, first and foremost, flavor. “We Zaid and Haifa Kurdieh met while attending high school in Jordan.

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Albania: A lesson in localism

Sustainable Food Trust

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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Precision Ag News 12/21

Agwired

Gutwein Seed Services announced a partnership with Streamline Ag in offering groundbreaking biological pest solutions for corn rootworms and soybean cyst nematodes.

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Pollinator Habitat is Falling to the Side of the Road—in a Good Way

Modern Farmer

In 2023, the TDOT launched a program called Project Milkweed —free mail-order milkweed seeds for people to plant in their gardens to support monarchs. It ran out of seeds pretty quickly, restocked and ran out again. All in all, it received 130,903 individual orders, sending out a total of 799,601 packets of seeds. “I

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HOMESTEAD TSUNAMI

The Lunatic Farmer

In 2020, seed companies sold out. They don’t watch TV all evening; they can tomatoes and chase fireflies in the meadow. In a country of 100 million households, that’s enough eggs to supply a dozen a week to a quarter of the nation’s households. That doesn’t seem like much, unless you’re the only family with eggs.

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