Chris Feix
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Topics: Organic, Vegetables, Fruit, Beyond Organic , Food/Nutrition, Government / Policies,

Check out this free online event for Organic Produce: https://events.farmjournal.com/global-organic-produce-expo-2021/agenda

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Corn/Maize, Young Farmers, Economics, World Hunger, Ag Africa, World Population,

Mvurwi farmer hails Command Agriculture Scheme

COMMAND Agriculture scheme has changed the life of Mvurwi farmer Prince Chipenda (42) who planted 100 hectares of maize in Mvurwi ward 26.Chipenda said he recei...

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Commodities, Tobacco, Research, Ag Africa, World Population,

Agriculture on recovery path despite challenges

BY Taurai Mangudhla ZIMBABWE should enjoy a decent harvest for all crops in the current season du...

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Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Soybeans, Food/Nutrition, Ag Global Specialty Food,

New Hastings, Neb., processing facility to pull in pulse crops from four states

Columbia Grain International is preparing for a spring 2021 opening of a pulse processing ...

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Randy Krotz
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Organic produce industry hopeful about new administration.

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TOPIC(S): Soil Health, Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, Agronomy,

01/19/2021 SOURCE: modernfarmer.com

Degraded Soil Costs Corn Farmers Hundreds of Millions of Dollars a Year: Study

Massive monocrop farming of corn, in the United States, brings with it a whole host of push-and-pull requirements. This style of agriculture drains the soil of nutrients, making it incapable of high-yield production. To make up for that, farmers have to drench the soils in fertilizer. A new study from researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder ran models to get a sense of what the economic costs of this system are and found they are quite staggering. A key problem with trying to figure out exactly how degraded soils are, at least in the US and some other countries

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TOPIC(S): Sustainability, Regenerative Agriculture,

01/19/2021 SOURCE: www.vogue.in

Consumer focused article.

9 important sustainability lessons from Stella McCartney

“You have to believe we can win”

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John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Economics, Ag Europe, World Population,

Agricultural production in Ukraine falls by 11.5% in 2020 – statistics

The agricultural production in Ukraine decreased by 11.5% in 2020 compared to the previous year, while over 11 months the decline amounted to 12.4%, the State Statistics Service said on Monday.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, GMO's, Biotech,

01/19/2021 SOURCE: allianceforscience.cornell.edu

10 Myths About GMOs - Alliance for Science

[Download this page as a PDF] [En Español: 10 mitos sobre los OGMs] GMO stands for “genetically modified organism.” It most commonly refers to organisms—often plants—that have been modified to achieve desired traits, like drought-tolerance and pest-resistance, using recombinant DNA techniques or genetic engineering (GE). It’s a misleading term, since we’ve been modifying the […]

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TOPIC(S): Dairy, Agriculture Global, Environment, Climate Change, Regenerative Agriculture,

01/19/2021 SOURCE: www.fastcompany.com

Why we need to “rewild” our environment

By changing how we feed the world—with plant-based burgers, bioreactor-grown dairy, and more efficient indoor farms—we could turn land now used for agriculture back into wilderness.