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How Craft Brewers Are Embracing Sustainability
With minimal budgets, small brewers are adopting innovative sustainability efforts to make beer more green; making beer from wastewater, taking over land stewardship initiatives, and recovering carbon dioxide.
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Nutrition Expert Debunks Myth Claiming Humans Aren't Made To Eat Meat
Animal or plant-based diet? Which are we biologically-engineered to consume? One nutrition epxert has aimed to settle the debate once and for all.
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Curt Livesay
Topics: Soybeans,
Soybean Flowering Fallacy
News and Resources for Wisconsin Agriculture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Cover Crops, Forestry, Crop Consultant, Sustainability, Research,
Wild crops could save our food system — if we don't destroy them first
Wild plants keep saving humans from starvation: Endangered sunflowers, lost Native American crops, and rare walnut trees.
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture Global, Economics, World Population, Regenerative Agriculture,
This technology collaborative promises a brighter future for solar
BlueDot Photonics aims to make solar power more efficient and affordable.
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Agriculture Global, Beekeeping, Cocoa, Sustainability, Research, Ag Africa, Pollinators,
Getting hands-on with pollination can boost cocoa yields, study shows | South Africa Today
Less than 10% of flowers in a cocoa tree are pollinated in natural conditions. Efforts to bolster the yields traditionally involved breeding programs or the use of fertilizers and other chemicals. A new study on Indonesian cocoa farms took a different approach: pollinating by hand. Researchers compared cocoa yields using their hands-on process versus traditional […]
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John LaRose Jr.
Topics: Economics, Food/Nutrition, Sustainability, Ag India, Ag Innovation, World Hunger, World Population, Food Security/Shortage,
Innoterra looks to grow India agri business post restructuring, rebranding
Over the past five years Inoterra has invested around $60 million in its various businesses in India so far. The Innoterra platform comprises businesses such as MilkLane, Desai AgriFoods, Samaaru, Farmlink and Lateral Praxis
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03/13/2021 SOURCE: www.google.com
More than a year after two U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies were moved from the nation’s capital to Kansas City, Missouri, they remain critically understaffed and some farmers are less confident in the work they produce
USDA relocations curtail ag research, farmer confidence
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03/13/2021 SOURCE: modernfarmer.com
It’s been a truly wild year in food and agriculture. To be fair, it’s been a truly wild year everywhere, one marked by massive societal and economic upheavals as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic—and, in the case of the United States, by the government’s response to the crisis. We’ve put together a timeline of some of the most important moments over the past year related to food and agriculture and its intersection with COVID-19. January 20, 2020. The first official positive COVID-19 test in the United States is found in Washington state. It’s likely that there were other cases
A Year (Plus) of COVID-19: How the Pandemic Hit Food and Agriculture
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