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The American Council on Science and Health's Cameron English points out the anti-biotech Non-GMO Project claims that drought-tolerant crops won't help "feed the world," but English points out the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) notes that some African farmers are reporting yields 20–30% even under moderate drought conditions.

Drought-Tolerant Crops: A Success Story the Non-GMO Project Hates

The Non-GMO Project claims that drought-tolerant crops won't help "feed the world" as climate change threatens crop yields. The evidence says otherwise.

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TOPIC(S): Pork/Swine/Pig/Hog,

10/08/2022 SOURCE: modernfarmer.com

Scientists Discover That Pigs Can Play Video Games

Animal intelligence, as we’ve mentioned here before, is a hugely messy concept that we still don’t fully understand. Studies that seem to focus on animal intelligence aren’t really attempting to figure out how smart, for example, a pig named Omelet is; it’s more about understanding how an animal’s brain works, what sort of learning capability it has, rather than forming a value judgment. That said, some scientists have been working for years to get pigs to play a video game, and, well, they did it. Pigs are generally understood to be “intelligent,” which, in this case, often means that pigs

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TOPIC(S): Cotton, Water, Weather,

10/08/2022 SOURCE: triblive.com

Drought takes toll on U.S. cotton production

LUBBOCK, Texas — The cotton harvest is about to get underway in the Texas High Plains, the windswept region that grows most of the crop in the nation’s top cotton-producing state. But Barry Evans, like many others, has already walked away from more than 2,000 acres of his bone-dry fields.

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

10/08/2022 SOURCE: dailytimes.com.pk

Cotton output likely to remain 8 million bales - Daily Times

Due to recent devastating flash floods and torrential rains across the cotton producing areas of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the overall cotton output of major cash crop is likely to remain between 7 to 8 million bales as against the set targets of 10.5 million bales during current season. According to initial estimates, out […]

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