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Topics: Agriculture US, Trade (Commodities),

Headline says the obvious

Trump accused of trying to buy agricultural vote

Farmers in the US are in line for record handouts from Washington this year, and the payments are forecast to hit $60 billion.

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TOPIC(S): Economics, Government / Policies, Ag Middle East,

09/03/2020 SOURCE: www.theguardian.com

Israel moots plan to buy solar power from former enemy Jordan

Exclusive: Israel aims to increase renewables from 5% to 30% by 2030, but domestic production held back by lack of land

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TOPIC(S): Irrigation, Agriculture US, Organic, Food/Nutrition, Sustainability, Urban Farming,

09/03/2020 SOURCE: www.duluthnewstribune.com

Farming the Saltless Sea: Duluth woman launches urban farm in Lincoln Park | Duluth News Tribune

Saltless Sea farm is about a half acre in a dense residential neighborhood below Lincoln Park Middle School. “This was almost entirely wasteland when I moved here,” Starr Brainard said.

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TOPIC(S): Livestock/Meat, World Population, Ag Australia/NZ,

09/03/2020 SOURCE: www.perthnow.com.au

Aussies missing in ship disaster

Japan’s coastguard has rescued one person in the search for a livestock ship with dozens of crew aboard, including two Australians, missing and feared capsized during Typhoon Maysak.

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TOPIC(S): Dairy, Economics, Ag United Kingdom, Government / Policies,

09/03/2020 SOURCE: www.dailymaverick.co.za

DAYS OF ZONDO: No questions asked as millions flowed to Estina dairy project

Political pressure within the Free State provincial government to pay millions toward the disastrous Estina dairy project in Vrede, and a seeming unwillingness to look past the papers placed on her desk, suffused the testimony of the former chief financial officer in the Free State Department of Agriculture who appeared at the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture on Wednesday.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture Global, Beef Cattle, Ag Asia / Pacific, Ranching,

09/03/2020 SOURCE: www.latimes.com

Livestock ship carrying 42 crew, 5,800 cows sinks off Japan's coast

Rescuers are searching for a livestock ship that apparently sank off the coast of Japan during rough weather.

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Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Education U.S. MidWest, Genes /Genetics, Biotech,

FREE educational sessions: The best thing to come from Covid 19

CRISPRcon 2020 – Virtual – September-October 2020

The mission of CRISPRcon is to bring together diverse voices to discuss the future of CRISPR across all applications.

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TOPIC(S): GMO's, AgriBusiness,

09/03/2020 SOURCE: usrtk.org

Council for Biotechnology Information, GMO Answers, CropLife: pesticide industry PR initiatives  - U.S. Right to Know

Fact sheet about public relations campaigns funded by the pesticide industry to persuade the public to accept genetically engineered foods.

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