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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Livestock/Meat, Ag Podcast US, Economics, Beef Cattle, World Hunger,

Nebraska ranchers have a plan to contend with Big Beef and restore local economy

Ranchers in Nebraska are rebelling against the “Big Four” meat companies by planning their own beef processing plant. They’re seeking a transformation for themselves, the industry and western Nebraska.

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Water, Sustainability, Ag Innovation, World Hunger,

floating salt-resistant marine farms might be the solution to rising sea levels

N-ARK combines salt-tolerant technology with sea-adapted architecture to tackle the issues of sea-level rise and salt damage.

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Rice, Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, Economics, Ag India, World Hunger,

India's record rice crop brings problem of plenty for farmers juggling protest

The sit-in against controversial agriculture reforms is taking place in the capital, miles away from the five acres (2 hectares) of lush green rice paddies tended by Sukrampal Beniwal in his village of Munak, in the northern state of Haryana.

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Vegetables, Gardening, Sustainability, Ag Asia / Pacific, World Hunger, Coronavirus/COVID,

Achieving better planting through new techniques - Borneo Post Online

HORTICULTURISTS are constantly looking at better ways and the latest techniques in planting. What if we’re to apply the ‘lateral-thinking’ concept to solve land scarcity? There is this thing called ‘air-planting’ utilising circular transparent upright columns for growing vegetables. Roots of the seedlings are inserted to the holes around the tube – very little or no amount of water is used; there’s

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, Education U.S. MidWest, Poultry, Research, World Hunger,

A Better Way to Raise Chickens for Low-intensity, Small Stakeholders | Institute News

Researchers Introduce New Production Model to Improve Rwandan Broiler Industry

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Agriculture Global, World Hunger, Regenerative Agriculture, Weather,

The regenerative revolution in food

Half of the world's land is used to grow our food. A new generation of 'carbon farmers' are making their land absorb greenhouse gases, rather than emitting them.

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Sorghum, Food/Nutrition, World Hunger, Ag Africa, Food Security/Shortage,

Small grains deliver big returns for African farmers facing climate change - Alliance for Science

The rains are long gone and the field is dry, but the sorghum crop is flush with luscious green leaves, foretelling a good harvest. The stubby, thin sorghum stalks, which delicately balance bi-color heads of grain, crowd farmer Simangaliso Ncube’s one-hectare plot in Mapulubusi village in Zimbabwe. Ncube planted the sorghum in the 2019-20 season, […]

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Dairy, Food/Nutrition, Research, Ag Europe, World Hunger,

Milk fueled Bronze Age expansion of ‘eastern cowboys’ into Europe

Ancient proteins show the Yamnaya dairy revolution took just 300 years

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Topics: Agriculture Global, GMO's, Genes /Genetics, World Hunger, Ag Australia/NZ, Food Security/Shortage,

Fast-forward breeding and rapid delivery systems for food security : Research for Agriculture

The University of Western Australia’s Institute of Agriculture has collaborated with international researchers to develop a roadmap to fast-forward breeding for accelerated crop improvement and rapid delivery systems, which will lead to a food-secure world. Two papers, recently published in Trends in Genetics and Nature Biotechnology, were the result of a Perth-based workshop organised by […]

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Topics: Soybeans, Crop Consultant, Agriculture Global, GMO's, Research, World Hunger,

GMO bean benefits Brazil's consumers and smallholder farmers - Alliance for Science

In a win for smallholder farmers and public sector research, Brazil grocery stores are now selling a genetically modified (GM) bean that is resistant to a destructive plant disease. The bean developed by the government-funded Embrapa can successfully resist the troublesome Bean Golden Mosaic Virus (BGMV), which causes losses estimated at 300,000 tons per year […]

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