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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): Tomato,
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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