02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.theenergymix.com
A new study shows that produce from urban agriculture has six times the carbon footprint of conventional farms when emissions are linked to food alone—but the calculation changes when the social benefits of urban growing are factored into a more holistic assessment.
Urban Farming Shows Higher Carbon Footprint than Conventional Agriculture
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.usatoday.com
The Food and Drug Administration could make a decision by March to ban menthol cigarettes, popular with Black smokers.
‘How about the cigarettes that white people smoke?’ Menthol cigarette ban could give Biden fits
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.barrons.com
With a deftness that comes from four decades of experience, Aristo Torres sorts tobacco leaves at a factory in Nicaragua -- a country making great strides in the manufacture and export of cigars.
Sweet And 'Spicy': Nicaraguan Cigars Winning Over The World
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.food-safety.com
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) recently highlighted its key achievements in 2023 that helped strengthen food safety and the supply chain, including efforts on a new regulatory framework to crack down on Salmonella in poultry.
In a 2023 Recap, USDA-FSIS Says it Aims to Publish Formal Regulatory Proposal for Salmonella in Poultry by Early 2024
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.panaynews.net
MABALACAT City – To significantly increase rice and eventually become self-sufficient in rice production, Vietnamese methods and technologies should be adopted in the Philippines, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on Saturday. Marcos, who was in Mandasig village in this town to lead the ceremonial palay harvesting and the distribution of assistance to farmers, recalled that […]
PH to adopt Vietnamese methods to hike rice production
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.wur.nl
Rice production in Africa is in urgent need of intensification to meet future demand. This is to prevent the continent from becoming largely dependent on the import of rice or significant portions of farmlands being used for cultivation. Research shows there is potential to make rice production more efficient if the current farming methods are improved.
African rice production must become more efficient to prevent large-scale import and cultivation
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.farmersadvance.com
MSU has hired a new farm manager for its Pollinator Performance Center.
Michigan State University hires new farm manager for Pollinator Performance Center
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.wral.com
A honey of a controversy between a family and the Town of Wake Forest is now resolved. That's after a disagreement over honeybee hives and land use issues.
Father, daughter beekeepers allowed to expand after dispute with Wake Forest
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: www.ksal.com
KSAL is your number one source for salina local news, weather, sports, auctions.
Video Series Shares Wheat Stories of Stewardship
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02/06/2024 SOURCE: newatlas.com
Herbicides were touted as ‘miracle’ chemicals when they changed farming practices forever in the late 1940s, but researchers are now desperate to find a more sustainable, soil-friendly and non-toxic way of wrangling weeds while promoting crop growth. Now, researchers out of China believes they've made a major breakthrough that could give wheat crops an eco-friendly future.
Synthetic microbes gang up to safely smash weeds and fuel wheat growth
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