Food Politics

AUGUST 16, 2024

I particularly enjoyed two things in this book: its broad scope, from home ice boxes to economic development in Rwanda, and her personal experiences visiting icy cold packing plants, storage facilities, trucks, and seed vaults on the Faroe Islands. Well, they used to. Today, not so much.

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Modern Farmer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Flax has been cultivated since ancient Egypt, and in the US since colonial times, when European settlers brought seeds to places such as Philadelphia, where it was mostly hand-processed and spun. Flax takes about 100 days to go from seed to harvest, and once planted, it needs little tending. The issue is the lack of infrastructure.

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Textiles Seeding Straw Processing 90

Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Researchers have found that when agroecology is combined with the right type of seed, it improves the resilience of crops, increases soil carbon and produces healthy and nutritious food combined with social justice and inclusion for rural populations. However, the country needs to scale-up agroecology and help farmers to make the transition.

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Industrial Agriculture Agroecology Food Agriculture 144

Cropaia

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Sowing High-quality, certified seeds are essential for uniform germination and disease resistance. Utilizing certified seeds offers tangible benefits, such as increased yields—often by 10-15% compared to non-certified seed. Seeding rate: The recommended seeding rate for winter wheat ranges from 1.2

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ATTRA

MARCH 26, 2025

However, mechanization and technology like tractors offer women the chance to broaden their opportunities in agriculture. Mechanizing tasks like bed shaping, planting, and cultivation is game-changing. Barriers Unlike seed packets and wheel hoes, financing tractors costs more than a pretty penny.

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Far Eastern Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

From ploughs to power harrows, flat cultivators and seed drills, Pöttinger has presented many interesting and innovative new products and features 1. AEROSEM VT with Profiline control system : The trailed pneumatic seed drill combinations AEROSEM VT 5000 DD and AEROSEM VT 6000 DD with working widths of 5.0

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Ploughing Tractor Seeding Mechanics 52

Agwired

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

. “Primarily we talked about the front line activity to introduce these frontier technologies into enterprises and work with seed companies and retailers and NGOs to introduce those to growers,” said panelist BioLumic CEO Steve Sibulkin. Sibulkin says they utilize a business-to-business approach to bring ag technology to farmers.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Working in an industry that covers all Oklahomans means Arthur collaborates with division directors on a wide range of issues from wildfire management to seed and fertilizer regulation to policy issues. We always like to remind our consumers, no matter where they live – in an urban area or a rural area – agriculture is very important to them.”

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Cultivation Agriculture Agriculture Food 162

Civil Eats

JULY 8, 2024

Among the companies that have recently registered the export of plant or seed samples are agrichemical giants like Bayer Crop Science (which bought Monsanto in 2018); the biotech firm Novozyme ; smaller firms like ProFarm , a company that sells biologically based fungicides, insecticides, and seed treatments; and the U.S.

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Seeding Food Production Technology 143

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Notably, this includes provisions from the Agricultural Resilience Act , the Organic Science Research and Investment Act , and the Seeds and Breeds for the Future Act. The Senate proposal also offers meaningful steps forward to address the hyper-consolidation of seed systems that has led to a dominant culture of seed commodification.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 114

Far Eastern Agriculture

JULY 29, 2024

Seeds from the MultiHub are placed through the existing seed lines or through a baffle plate in front of or behind the harrows. The MultiHub offers the same number of width sections as the seed drill. Both coulter pressure and seed depth can be adjusted independently of each other and do not affect each other.

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Seeding Mechanics Cultivation Tractor 40

Food Tank

MARCH 5, 2024

and Canada want to force Mexico to open its market to all genetically modified foods and seeds. Toxic effects and indications of toxicity have variously been observed in the blood , stomach, small intestine, liver, kidney, spleen, and pancreas, as well as immune responses , though the mechanism is not clear from these studies.

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biotechnology Food Science Processing 145

Cropaia

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Seed formation and germination: Molybdenum plays a vital role in the synthesis of phytohormones, such as abscisic acid (ABA), which regulates seed dormancy, germination, and early seedling growth. Therefore, adequate molybdenum levels are necessary for optimal seed formation and viability.

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Crop Fertilizer Mechanics Seeding 94

Modern Farmer

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Dispensaries may charge a premium for heritage strains or sun-grown, organic weed, but a hazy supply chain can obscure a lot between seed and sale. A full seed-to-sale account The recent spread of legal cannabis throughout pockets of the U.S. elicited high hopes for bolstering the supply of high-grade weed.

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Supply Chain Cultivation Technology Harvest 132

Caff

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Governor and California Department of Food and Agriculture seeded an early investment in the initiative, which provoked community discussions and a 2020 “vision” document—deliberated over by academic, agricultural, environmental justice, farmworker, government, and philanthropic institutions—to guide it and future investments.

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Family Farming Farming Farming Technology 98

World Agri-Tech

OCTOBER 17, 2024

October 17, 2024 Since featuring at the summit in March 2024, Switch Bioworks has gone from success to success, recently raising $17M in series seed financing to bring new biological fertilizer technology to the field. It’s an exponential improvement with the potential to deliver high-performance and reliable in-field nitrogen production.

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Fertilizer Seeding Mechanics Technology 52

The Lunatic Farmer

APRIL 20, 2021

Yesterday I did a two-hour guest podcast for SCATTERED SEEDS, co-hosted by Tom O'Boyle and Nathanael Devlin, and we dug into my book THE MARVELOUS PIGNESS OF PIGS. Church becomes mechanical, just like the factory farmed pig. Inner hunger for spiritual truth gives way to an egotistical non-dependency.

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Agwired

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Attendees can also expect to learn more about the different kinds of beneficial biology and the biochemical mechanisms that enable soil microbes to benefit crops. Renovo Seed will offer eight elite alfalfa varieties and three of their famous AlfaGrass mixes in their 2025 product lineup. Register here.

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Agritecture Blog

MARCH 9, 2023

Control mechanisms are also utilized to balance temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide levels in the grow facility and deliver the optimal combination of these factors for the specific crop or crops being grown. . #3: 3: Tailoring The Development Of Genetic Varieties Vindara argues that the difference is in the seeds.

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Farmbrite

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

You can harvest most varieties of microgreens within 10 to 28 days of sowing the seed. They have many health benefits: Microgreens are nutrient dense because they contain most of the energy the plant has stored in the seed. However, most microgreens seeds will remain viable for a few years if you store them in a dry, cool area.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 11, 2023

Despite incentives to establish more sustainable – even organic – farming practices, most farmers are caught in an industrial system of chemicals, hybrid seed, and genetically modified (GMO) seed. Faribault County farmer Tim Perrizo was able to pay for a custom aerial cover-crop seeding for one of his 70-acre fields.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 52

Caff

JANUARY 20, 2022

This year’s DIY award went to McGruder Ranch for their “No-dig Removable End Post”, a handheld mechanical post-driver making the always arduous task of fence-building easier. a simple tool that helps farmers record (or simulate) livestock harvests.

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Caff

MAY 31, 2023

Tom Johnson, of Kamprath Seed, and NRCS Agronomist, Karen Lowell, spoke about the management decisions to consider when planting a cover crop. (Photos by Nolan Kirby and Moet Takata) Karen Lowell outlines what growers should consider when planting cover crops.

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Caff

JUNE 13, 2023

Mitigation Methods Defensible Space Use targeted/prescribed grazing, beneficial fire, and mechanical methods to maintain vegetation buffers around sensitive structures, access roads, and containment areas. Consider seeding with grasses and other plants known for their phytoremediation abilities.

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ATTRA

APRIL 9, 2024

The garden wants to go to sleep, and I tuck it in with a blanket of cover crops… my favorite seed mix of vetch, rye, and clover. But a mechanical tiller? The summer crops have just about given their all, their leaves brown with wilt or downy mildew, an element of a plant’s natural senescence. My hoe was light in this respect.

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Sustainable Food Trust

JUNE 28, 2023

However, if we over-manage a hedge or intervene by planting a single species or mechanically trimming the hedge too severely, too often or too early in the autumn, we risk suppressing its biodiversity potential. Patrick has been using diverse seed mixes since he started at Bwlchwernen in 1973.

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Sustainable Food Trust

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Some distance away the farmer sits in front of a computer monitoring the data collected by these devices, using this to make decisions about selling their crops and selecting next year’s seeds. For instance, the ability to repair farm equipment locally or have it serviced by a nearby mechanic was deemed important by several farmers.

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Agritecture Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Wheat production, for example, is highly mechanized and relies on massive harvesting vehicles. Obliterating asphalt and planting seeds would transform cities from car-centric to people-centric systems. And different crops travel different distances to get to market.

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Ruralism Supply Chain Harvest Harvesting 52

National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 28, 2024

From losing seed crops as wildfires rage for weeks, losing entire crops due to erratic freezes, to losing farms as drought dries up available water, farmers’ risks are rising. The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024 (FFNSA) fails to meet the moment for farmers across the country who are on the front lines of a changing climate.

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Farming Farming Agriculture Agriculture 93

Food Environment and Reporting Network

DECEMBER 20, 2024

flatland of small, half-abandoned towns surrounded by large, mechanized farms. In 1944, International Harvester tested the first mechanical cotton picker on a plantation just south of Clarksdale, Mississippi. As mechanization was driving Black sharecroppers to leave the Delta, Black farmers who owned land were losing it.

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Cropaia

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

Seed tubers should be planted 10–15 cm deep, with in-row spacing of 20–30 cm and row spacing of 75–90 cm. Sandy loams tend to produce smooth, well-shaped tubers, while clay-heavy soils increase the likelihood of misshapen tubers due to mechanical resistance. Tuber quality and shape: Soil texture affects tuber skin quality and shape.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

JUNE 1, 2023

By way of comparison, Climeworks, which uses mechanical processes to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in rock, reportedly charges between $500 and $1,000 per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent removed. The credits sell for roughly $250 per ton, said Running Tide.

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Agwired

MAY 16, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a plan to update, streamline, and clarify their regulations and oversight mechanisms for products of biotechnology. Two scientists who were instrumental in creating a back-up vault of the world’s crop seeds to protect global food security have been named the 2024 World Food Prize Laureates.

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Agwired

MAY 10, 2024

Department of Agriculture (USDA) have developed a plan to update, streamline, and clarify their regulations and oversight mechanisms for products of biotechnology. Two scientists who were instrumental in creating a back-up vault of the world’s crop seeds to protect global food security have been named the 2024 World Food Prize Laureates.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

The Aztec believed the first man resulted from Quetzalcóatl’s gifting of cultivated corn; in the Maya story, the first spiritually fit humans are crafted from maize seeds after failed attempts to use wood and mud. In his definitive history of Monsanto, Seed Money , Bartow J.

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Civil Eats

JANUARY 29, 2025

Planting the Seeds of Justice This article is part of our ongoing series, Planting the Seeds of Justice , in which we focus on the connections between climate, health, soil health, and equity for farmers of color. We tended the land, joined by God on a mission to build something that could last for generations.

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Farming Farming Acre Seeding 140

National Young Farmers Coalition

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This bill defines precision agriculture as: managing, tracking, or reducing crop or livestock production inputs, including seed, feed, fertilizer, chemicals, water, and time, at a heightened level of spatial and temporal granularity to improve efficiencies, reduce waste, and maintain environmental quality.

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