TOPIC(S): Pollinators,
TOPIC(S): Beekeeping, Young Farmers,

06/15/2023 SOURCE: modernfarmer.com

For These Teens, a Unique Beekeeping Program Teaches About Much More Than Honey

Spending 15 weeks surrounded by bees wasn't Maria Roman's plan for the summer. The New Haven, Connecticut-based teenager was going through a lot when a family friend suggested she participate in the Huneebee Project, a beekeeper-in-residence program that offers young people the chance to interact with bees while learning essential life skills.  Roman had recently entered the foster care system and found herself drifting away from things she once loved, such as spending time outside. She recalls thinking, 'You seriously want me to be around bees? Definitely not.' With no prior pollinator experience, Roman was apprehensive. 'I knew they stung

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TOPIC(S): Beekeeping,
TOPIC(S): Beekeeping,
TOPIC(S): Bison/Buffalo,

06/15/2023 SOURCE: www.msn.com

Creamery Brook Bison holds Festival at the Farm on Connecticut Open House Day

Among the many activities available to Connecticut residents on this year’s Open House Day (June 10) was a visit to Creamery Brook Bison, in Brooklyn. Creamery Brook’s Festival on the Farm offered a craft fair, donkey rides, food, ice cream, wagon rides out to the farm’s bison pastures, a 4-H club bake sale, and more. Since it is still officially spring, there were quite a few babies to see ...

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TOPIC(S): Corn/Maize, Agriculture US,
TOPIC(S): Sweet Corn,
TOPIC(S): Corn/Maize, Ag South America,

06/15/2023 SOURCE: invezz.com

Corn price analysis as Argentina production retreats | Invezz

Corn price has rebounded in the past few days as investors reacted to the latest WASDE report and the recent dam collapse in Ukraine. The price was trading at $6.20, a few points above the year-to-date low of $5.62. WASDE report Corn and other agricultural commodities drifted upwards this month after a major dam collapse […]

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TOPIC(S): World Hunger, Ag Africa, Weather,

06/15/2023 SOURCE: news.yahoo.com

This African Nation’s Surprise Plan for Farming Through Climate Disaster

Jane Barlow/PA Wire/Press Association via AP ImagesThe landlocked country of Malawi, in southeast Africa, is home to just 19.1 million people. According to the U.N., more than 2.8 million of these people—nearly 15 percent of the entire population—currently face starvation. Much of the reason, unsurprisingly, is climate-related: The country’s Ministry of Agriculture has stated that the production of corn—the country’s main staple food—dropped by 14 percent the previous year, as a result of severe

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TOPIC(S): Commodities, Agriculture Global, Trade (Commodities),

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