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Sheep flock rebuild speeding up
Australia's flock rebuild is speeding up, predicted to reach 68.1 million head after falling to its lowest on record.
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Topics: Wheat, Precision AG , Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Food Waste, Research, Education, Food Security/Shortage,
IPK researchers double the accuracy of wheat yield forecasts - Florida News Times
An international team of scientists, led by the IPK Leibniz-Institute, was able to double the accuracy of wheat yield predictions by increasing populations.Credits: IPK / Christophe Martin The enormous potential of big data has already been demonstrated in areas such as financial services and telecommunications. For the first time, an international team of researchers, led …
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Topics: Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Beekeeping, Sustainability, Research, Ag Africa, Pollinators,
South African worker honeybees reproduce by making near-perfect clones of themselves
A team of researchers from the University of Sydney, the ARC-Plant Protection Research Institute and York University, has found that workers in a species of honeybee found in South Africa reproduce by ...
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Topics: Precision AG , Cotton, Commodities, Markets/Pricing, Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Economics, Ag Australia/NZ,
Frost takes cream off crop in otherwise bumper season
Cotton Australia predicts 2.8 million bale season.
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Topics: Precision AG , Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Beekeeping, Research, World Hunger, Ag Africa, World Population, Pollinators,
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Topics: Livestock/Meat, Agriculture Global, Economics, Beef Cattle, Ag Australia/NZ, Weather,
Tropical calf's chilly welcome to the world
Imagine coming into the world when temperatures failed to get over 1C.
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Topics: Precision AG , Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Sustainability, World Hunger, Ag Africa, Food Security/Shortage,
Agriculture, Key To Africa’s Quest For Continued Growth, Sustainability
Africa cannot achieve self-sufficiency in agriculture without engaging and building the capacity of its smallholder farmers. This was the submission of Venkataramani Srivathsan, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Olam Africa, the Middle East and North America regions, who spoke during a panel discussion on a BBC agro webinar event tagged ‘Agriculture – Africa’s Future’, held on Tuesday, June 8, 2021.
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Topics: Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Economics, Sustainability, Coronavirus/COVID,
Agriculture group's 'strong' Q4 as firm defies Covid to end year on a high
The group, whose IT systems were also hacked at the end of 2020, says it will post full-year results ahead of market expectations
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Topics: Precision AG , Agriculture Global, Food/Nutrition, Sustainability, Ag Global Specialty Food, Regenerative Agriculture, Coronavirus/COVID,
Local communities empower a resilient global food system
Communities around the world found themselves facing food insecurity at unprecedented levels due to COVID in 2020. A focus on sustainability, support from global partners and heroic frontline workers kept food on family tables and proved, with agility, the food system can survive crisis.
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Topics: Agriculture US, Crop Consultant, Education U.S. NorthEast, Agriculture Global, Beekeeping, Economics, Food/Nutrition, Research, World Hunger, World Population, Pollinators,
Pollen-sized particles give bees immunity to insecticides
Bees play a critical role in pollinating many of plants that humans eat and are therefore key to food security, but populations continue to decline rapidly around the world. A number of factors are contributing to this, including habitat loss and drought, but a tiny new ingestible particle developed at Cornell University takes aim at a key one, by detoxifying deadly insecticides before they can do these important critters harm.
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