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09/15/2022 SOURCE: sponsorcontent.cnn.com
As the 4th largest food producer in the world, Brazil has built a quarter of its economy from agriculture alone. But to sustain its global position and maintain a healthy ecosystem, the South American nation is setting its sights on becoming a leading innovator in sustainable and renewable farming.
The sustainable farming revolution that’s transforming Brazil’s relationship with its land - ApexBrasil - CNN
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09/14/2022 SOURCE: www.heritagedaily.com
Unlike their counterparts in other parts of the British Isles and on mainland Europe, early Scottish farmers didn’t use manure to fertilise their fields. - HeritageDaily - Archaeology News
Early Scottish farmers didn’t use manure to fertilise their fields
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09/14/2022 SOURCE: theplantguide.net
History of vegetables reaches the most distant years of modern humankind, when hunter gatherers exited Africa and started spreading
The History About Each Vegetable - The Plant Guide
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09/13/2022 SOURCE: www.wired.com
For decades, the EU has had some of the tightest restrictions on genetically altered agriculture. That could be about to change.
Europe’s Drought Might Force Acceptance of Gene-Edited Crops
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09/13/2022 SOURCE: www.agriculture.com
KYIV, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Ukrainian farms in almost all regions have started sowing winter wheat for the 2023 harvest, seeding 141,000 hectares, or 3.5% of the expected area, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.The ministry did not provide a forecast, although minister Mykola Solsky told Reuters last month that the area could fall to 3.8 million hectares from 4.6 million a year earlier due to the Russian invasion.The minister said that Ukraine's winter barley sowing area for the 2023 harvest could also fall by 20% from last year while the winter rapeseed area would remain unchanged.The mi
Ukrainian winter wheat sowing underway, 3.5% complete - agriculture ministry
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture Global, World Hunger, Ag Africa,
Better seeds and biotechnology can boost Africa's crop productivity, study finds - Alliance for Science
Though Africa has a quarter of the world’s arable land, its crop productivity falls well below the world average, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Much of that is due to poor quality seeds and constraints facing smallholder farmers, according to a new study that suggests crop biotechnology as a way to boost production and productivity […]
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Nancy Kavazanjian
Topics: Agriculture Global, Trade (Commodities), USDA,
The Export Sales Data Snafu
On August 25, the USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service released its weekly Export Sales Report using a new reporting system. Based on some implausible values in this report, regular users of…
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09/10/2022 SOURCE: rcg.org
It can be easy to take the soil beneath our feet for granted. Yet its health has always been a key to our survival.
A Missing Ingredient for World Peace
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09/10/2022 SOURCE: geneticliteracyproject.org
This paper updates previous estimates for the global value of using genetically modified (GM) crop technology in agriculture at the farm level. It examined impacts on yields, important variable costs of production.
Study: $261 billion — That’s how much GMO crops have boosted farmers’ incomes
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