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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Vegetables, Food/Nutrition, Ag Global Specialty Food, Ag South America,

Can Hatch green chiles outlast the climate crisis?

Growers of New Mexico’s iconic crop wrestle with drought, water rights and labor shortages.

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Randy Krotz
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Agriculture US, Food/Nutrition, Coronavirus/COVID,

Diet-related diseases pose a major risk for Covid-19. But the U.S. overlooks them.

Other countries have been galvanized to confront diet issues. The U.S. has had no such wakeup call.

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Nancy Kavazanjian
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Agriculture US, Food/Nutrition,

Return to Office: Four Key Drivers to Watch with the Business of Food

By Karol Aure-Flynn, Food & Agribusiness Industry Advisors, Wells Fargo (October 19, 2021) The changing face of the American workplace has serious implications for the business of food. It turns out that our mid-pandemic expectations of the return-to-normal are more complicated than originally envisioned. On August 8, The Wall Street Journal[1] detailed the upending of fall plans for corporate America. While economic recovery has gained momentum, new COVID-19 variants are serving up additional c

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John LaRose Jr.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Coffee/Tea, Food/Nutrition, Ag Global Specialty Food, Weather,

Coffee and the Effects of Climate Change

Whether you prefer notes of berry and citrus or chocolate and nuts, dark roast or light, a good cup of coffee can be a simple pleasure. You probably would notice if some of your morning brew’s

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Randy Krotz
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Dairy, Agriculture US, Food/Nutrition, Climate Change, Carbon Farming,

Bill Gates latest big climate investment is . . . milk

The aptly named Neutral is a climate-neutral milk trying to push low-carbon solutions in dairy farming by sourcing all its milk from farms using carbon reduction techniques.

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John LaRose Jr.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
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.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
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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John LaRose Jr.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Agriculture US, Education U.S. MidWest, Fruit, Food/Nutrition, Crop Diseases,

Tracking a bacterial culprit in the case of the warty pumpkin - WSU Insider

On a Halloween pumpkin, warts, and bumps have a certain spooky charm. But some unwanted bacteria open the door to infections that ruin this bright, seasonal fruit.

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Nancy Kavazanjian
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Fruit, Food/Nutrition,

Kellogg’s faces $5 million lawsuit for not having enough strawberries in its Pop-Tarts

A lawsuit claims the Kellogg Sales Company is giving consumers an impression that Pop-Tart's fruit filling contains more strawberries than it does.

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John LaRose Jr.
shared this 2 article 4 years ago
Topics: Organic, Agriculture Global, Beekeeping, Food/Nutrition, Pollinators,

This home for bees is nicer than yours

Behold the Beezantium!

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