Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Lagging productivity, the diving Canadian dollar, precarious U.S. trade, and volatile global news all make the list of the top nine trends impacting agriculture in 2025. Also on the list, saysAaron Goertzen, senior economist with BMO, are increased input costs, high crop carryover, lower interest rates, and a more loose labour market. Each of these Read More Lagging productivity, the diving Canadian dollar, precarious U.S. trade, and volatile global news all make the list of the top nine trends

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Heres the announcement: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today launched its 2024 Statistical Yearbook , offering an in-depth overview of the most significant trends shaping global agrifood systems. This years edition highlights critical challenges, including increased temperatures over land, the ongoing global struggle with food insecurity alongside increasing obesity rates, and the environmental pressures faced by agricultural production.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Press Release ARLINGTON, Va. National Association of State Departments of Agriculture CEO Ted McKinney issued the following statement. Farmers and ranchers are encountering tremendous pressures under high input costs, elevated interest costs, deeply depressed commodity futures markets and poor local cash markets. Additionally, they have experienced powerful headwinds, ranging from extreme weather to uncertain global demand to supply chain disruptions.

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Sustainable Food Trust

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Having effectively severed what should be an umbilical relationship between cows and the land they graze, Arla have now resorted to feed additives to maintain positive PR for their dairy farming industry. I have been asked what I think about Arla’s feed additive, Bovaer, which apparently has the potential to reduce methane emissions from dairy cows by up to 30%.

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Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Surviving Neanderthal genes in modern genomes tell a story of thousands of years of interactions The post A new timeline for Neanderthal interbreeding with modern humans appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 4, 2024

During the summer of 2024, more than two fifths of the continental United States faced summer temperatures exceeding 110 degrees Fahrenheit, along with more severe droughts. It is time to radically redirect our food system to better adapt to a hotter, drier world, what some of us now call Planet Desert. And yet, much of what the U.S. Department of Agriculture has funded to date in its climate change program supports baby steps toward climate mitigation, but no real deep adaptation toward the ne

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Google and ChatGPT have been giving farmers the answers to many of their agronomy questions for a while now. Artificial intelligence (AI) programs such as ChatGPT use information that is publicly available on the internet to answer questions that are typed into the prompt. The better the prompt, the better answers a person is likely… Read More Google and ChatGPT have been giving farmers the answers to many of their agronomy questions for a while now.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Letter Dear Speaker Johnson, Minority Leader Jeffries, Majority Leader Schumer and Minority Leader McConnell: The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture supported the draft of H.R. 10445, the Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2025 and sent a letter of support to the House of Representatives.

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USDA Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Blanca Acevedo is the director of Grants Administration at Malcolm X College, part of the City College of Chicago. She plays an important role in creating and enhancing academic opportunities for low-income and Latino students pursuing careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). In 2023, she was honored as a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) E.

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Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Join us in looking back on some of 2024s most memorable discoveries from UC research. The post 12 amazing UC discoveries of 2024 appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Food Tank is highlighting 20 books for young readers that will inspire them to think more deeply about food. These activity books, cookbooks, and stories celebrate diverse foodways and farming practices from across the world, uplift the power of community, and celebrate all that pollinators do for global food and farming systems. Whether you want to get your hands dirty or try a new recipe, theres something for everyone in this roundup. 1.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Canadian Agri-Business Education Foundation (CABEF) is offering seven, $2,500 scholarships to student entering or pursuing an agricultural related program at a Canadian college, university or apprenticeship (trade) institution. Canadian agriculture needs more passionate people to address the challenges of tomorrow, says Becky Parker, chair of the CABEF board of directors.

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 5, 2024

I learned about this from one of the last posts from Chuck Abbott’s AgInsider (written for FERN, the Food and Environment Reporting Network ), which he is stopping and I will greatly miss. USDA deregulates GM wheat, says it is safe to grow in the U.S.: For the first time, the Agriculture Department approved cultivation of genetically modified wheat in the United States on Tuesday, deregulating a drought- and herbicide-tolerant variety developed by an Argentine company.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Letter Dear Representative: The National Association of State Departments of Agriculture urges Congress to pass H.R. 10445, the Further Continuing Appropriations and Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2025. Americas farmers and ranchers are facing an increasingly perilous agricultural economy. Real incomes are being throttled by persistently high input costs and depressed commodity prices while opportunities to invest in the future are hampered by prohibitive interest rates.

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Since 2012, Gail Taylor has built healthy soil, provided hundreds of local families with fresh tomatoes and turnips, and fostered community on less than an acre at Three Part Harmony Farm in northeast Washington, D.C. Along the way, she’s blazed a trail and spearheaded legislation to enable other urban farmers in D.C. to follow. And she’s done it all with a sense that—at any moment—it could all be over.

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Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

From an exploration on how to make sense in a world of nonsense to an examination of the American sitcom, the subjects of this year’s books are expansive — a reflection of our dynamic and diverse campus. The post Holiday gift guide 2024: New books by UC Berkeley authors appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 7, 2024

This is the second part of an articles series based on based on conversations held during COP16 (Cali) and COP29 (Baku) side events by leading food system actors, who explored solutions provided by agroecology. Learn why t his fall is crucial for food systems governance as world leaders and food system actors gather to discuss solutions to biodiversity loss, climate change and land degradation.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 11, 2024

In Episode 18 of Truth About Ag podcast, co-hosts Kristjan Hebert and Evan Shout sit down with Jordan Kambeitz of Kambeitz Farms, a fifth-generation operation dating back to 1899. They tackle the realities of modern farming, from the importance of investing in team dynamics and building a strong culture to the growing demand for traceabilityconnecting Read More In Episode 18 of Truth About Ag podcast, co-hosts Kristjan Hebert and Evan Shout sit down with Jordan Kambeitz of Kambeitz Farms, a fift

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 2, 2024

[Apologies for sending this out yesterday (in error). I’ve added a few things.] Such an odd time we live in, with politics making increasingly strange bedfellows, this time with the American Council on Science and Health, an industry front group if there ever was one. Yet here it is with two articles on the looming threat of bird flu. USDA’s Dereliction in Containing Bird Flu Could Cause Calamitous Pandemic (Part 1) An inherent conflict of interest – USDA both regulating and promoting livestoc

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NASDA

DECEMBER 16, 2024

ARLINGTON, Va. The Northeast Regional Food Business Center is pleased to award $2 million in sub-award funding to 17 technical assistance provider organizations across the Northeast. Thirteen awardees will receive grants of up to $100,000 to support small- and mid-sized food and agricultural businesses with projects that include: Business technical assistance Value and supply chain coordination Market development Financial guidance services Production expansion and new product development The C

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Civil Eats

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This story was published recently by The Bitter Southerner magazine, in print and online. In the months before Patrick Brown was born in November 1982, his father, Arthur, lay down on a road near the familys farm to prevent a caravan of yellow dump trucks from depositing toxic soil in his community. The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Ep. 30: Southwest Farm Press editor and Texas farmer Shelley Huguley talks water availability, resiliency, changing farm practices and her farmer perspective on climate change in this Shop Talk episode.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The Food Foundation’s Investor Coalition on Food Policy is working the power of investors to engage with policymakers on issues related to food systems in the United Kingdom. The Coalition allows investors to engage with policymakers on food policy issues, supporting regulations that will lead to a healthy, sustainable, and affordable food system.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Being an agronomist means knowing about plants, diseases, soil, and insects, but it also requires the ability to navigate difficult conversations, earn trust, and drive change. The people part of the agronomy equation is the topic of this episode of The Agronomists. Here to talk about personality differences, clear communication, and patience with people is… Read More Being an agronomist means knowing about plants, diseases, soil, and insects, but it also requires the ability to navigate difficu

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Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2024

By replicating the atmospheric conditions of spacecraft, researchers aim to devise strategies for mitigating fire hazards in space. The post Engineers from UC Berkeley and NASA team up to study fire in space appeared first on Berkeley News.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Letter Dear Mr. President: Our members represent a broad collection of the agricultural and food supply chains that faced severe shipping disruptions due to the East and Gulf Coast port strike that lasted from October 1 through October 3, 2024. While the strike duration was only 3 days, the impact was felt for a much longer period. Approximately a week in advance of the strike, most U.S. agricultural container shipments to the ports were embargoed to help prevent a backlog and it took weeks afte

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Food Politics

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Lets end Food Politics this year (this is the last post until January 6) with some more good news: USDA Builds on Actions to Protect Livestock and Public Health from H5N1 Avian Influenza The Agriculture Departments Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced a new National Milk Testing Strategy (NMTS) requiring that raw (unpasteurized) milk samples nationwide be collected and shared with USDA for testing.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Learn about the latest projects, products and services related to seed coming from Beck’s, Channel and BASF.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Over the last several years, agriculture has stormed onto the climate agenda. And its about time. Policymakers, donors, and investors are seeing the wisdom of investing in soil restoration, agroecology, agroforestry, and biodiversity, among other regenerative actions. And yet, what we have learned from our African colleagues is that without simultaneously investing in healthy local markets, these investments in sustainable production are likely to fall short.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While the initial launch of a new piece of equipment is always exciting, feedback from the farmers that use it in the field can help to make some pretty impressive improvements. In the case of Horschs Leeb VL sprayer this has meant a bigger tank, bigger booms, a bigger engine, easy to change fenders, changes Read More While the initial launch of a new piece of equipment is always exciting, feedback from the farmers that use it in the field can help to make some pretty impressive improvements.

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Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2024

For more than 60 years, UC Berkeley forestry students have traveled to the Sierra Nevada to cut Christmas trees for the community to enjoy. The post Forest fresh: Cal Forestry Club’s tree sale starts Sunday appeared first on Berkeley News.

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NASDA

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In this issue, NASDA Public Policy Director Becky Garrison Warfel shares insights on NASDAs efforts in food safety and nutrition. As a registered dietitian with experience in promoting U.S. crops, Becky offers a unique perspective on NASDAs initiatives. She highlights the important role USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service data plays in supporting food access, nutrition security and stronger local food systems.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Joshua Cave, Cave Family Farm in Pilot Mountain, North Carolina. Photo credit: USDA The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has promoted the sale of foods locally for over two decades via business and community investments made by Value-Added Producer Grants , Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Grants , and most recently Regional Food System Partnership grants.

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Western FarmPress

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Next-generation farmers shouldn’t wait for the succession conversation to come to them.

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Food Tank

DECEMBER 4, 2024

This is the third part of a series exploring the work of EARTH University as they provide resources and support to future food systems leaders. Read parts one and two. EARTH University in Costa Rica is using its long-term vision, EARTHShot, to expand the institution’s role in developing nature-positive, socially equitable agricultural systems. To achieve this mission, they recently launched a multi-year strategy through 2027 that is guided by the U.N.

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Real Agriculture

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Weather is one of the many, but main, factors that determines yield outcomes at harvest. It’s also a factor that is completely beyond a grower’s control. Or is it? While farmers can’t make the rain fall or the sun shine, there are plenty of things that can be done to mitigate the stress that a… Read More Weather is one of the many, but main, factors that determines yield outcomes at harvest.

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Berkeley Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Can there be scientific certainty in a pandemic? Ann C. Keller of UC Berkeley says no, urging the CDC to keep this in mind.

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