01/21/2021 SOURCE: www.weforum.org
Art, innovation and sustainable agriculture collide, creating an illuminating new way to grow food.
This light show in a field isn’t just pretty – it’s helping grow crops with less need for pesticides
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01/20/2021 SOURCE: www.fwi.co.uk
France is on a collision course with the European Union after it said gene-edited crops should not be classified as genetically modified organisms (GMs).
Gene-edited crops not the same as GMs, says France - Farmers Weekly
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Nancy Kavazanjian
Topics: Soil Health, Agriculture Global,
Do we only have 60 harvests left?
Claims that the world has only 100, 60, or even 30 years of harvests left often hit the headlines. These claims are overblown, but soil erosion is a problem and we can do something about it.
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01/19/2021 SOURCE: modernfarmer.com
Massive monocrop farming of corn, in the United States, brings with it a whole host of push-and-pull requirements. This style of agriculture drains the soil of nutrients, making it incapable of high-yield production. To make up for that, farmers have to drench the soils in fertilizer. A new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder ran models to get a sense of what the economic costs of this system are and found they are quite staggering. A key problem with trying to figure out exactly how degraded soils are, at least in the US and some other countries
Degraded Soil Costs Corn Farmers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year: Study
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01/19/2021 SOURCE: allianceforscience.cornell.edu
[Download this page as a PDF] [En Español: 10 mitos sobre los OGMs] GMO stands for “genetically modified organism.” It most commonly refers to organisms—often plants—that have been modified to achieve desired traits, like drought-tolerance and pest-resistance, using recombinant DNA techniques or genetic engineering (GE). It’s a misleading term, since we’ve been modifying the […]
10 Myths About GMOs - Alliance for Science
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01/19/2021 SOURCE: www.fastcompany.com
By changing how we feed the world—with plant-based burgers, bioreactor-grown dairy, and more efficient indoor farms—we could turn land now used for agriculture back into wilderness.
Why we need to “rewild” our environment
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, Drones UAV, World Population, Coronavirus/COVID,
Big growth in agriculture drones reported during the past year
Drone adoption has increased during the coronavirus pandemic, especially in the agricultural sector as farmers seek new insights using surveillance technology and drawing inferences from digital data.
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, Economics, World Hunger, World Population,
Bill Gates Becomes the Largest Farmland Owner in the United States: Report
The billionaire owns more than 268,000 acres of land combined across 19 states
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Nancy Kavazanjian
Topics: Agriculture Global, Beekeeping, Food/Nutrition,
The honey detectives are closing in on China’s shady syrup swindlers
Detecting honey laced with sugar syrup is notoriously tricky, but a new test could provide the evidence needed to make fake honey prosecutions stick
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Jobs, Agriculture Global, Economics, Sustainability, Ag Australia/NZ, Coronavirus/COVID, Ag Labor,
Veg growers dump $150,000 worth of celery crops due to picker shortage
Growers in Victoria's Lindenow Valley have dumped crops due to a drastic shortage of seasonal workers caused by the COVID-19 travel bans.
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