Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Agriculture Global, Water, Food/Nutrition,

Document card | FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

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John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Soil Health, Water, Sustainability, Research, Ag Innovation, World Population, Education,

Worm-like, soil-swimming robots to measure crop underworld | Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell project funded by two separate three-year grants will develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, water, the soil microbiome and how roots grow.

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Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Agriculture US, Food/Nutrition, Food Waste, Food Security/Shortage,

One in six Americans could go hungry in 2020 as pandemic persists

With the holidays nearing, miles-long food lines are a hint at how hunger in America could soon surpass the peak of the 2007 recession.

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John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: Fishing (Commercial), World Hunger, World Population, Education,

Community conservation reserves protect fish diversity in tropical rivers | Cornell Chronicle

A collaboration between researchers from Cornell and the University of Wisconsin-Madison has found that small, community-based reserves in Thailand’s Salween River Basin are serving as critical refuges for fish diversity in a region whose subsistence fisheries have suffered from decades of overharvesting.

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Randy Krotz Randy Krotz
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Topics: Agriculture US, Pesticides, AgriBusiness,

Wyffels Hybrids is turning its experience in monitoring corn rootworm activity into a tool that customers can use to make better decisions about managing the pest in their area.

Trend toward lower use rate for pesticides continues

Hi-Tech Farming: Newer formulations of existing chemistry feature lower use rates.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, USDA, Food Security/Shortage,

11/26/2020 SOURCE: www.agdaily.com

'Food System' discussion wallows in vagueness rather than solutions | AGDAILY

While the webinar on a "Food System" report provided a viable discussion, it did not seem to suggest any solutions besides changing the system.

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Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Agriculture US, USDA, Government / Policies,

Major unions back Fudge for Agriculture secretary

Three major unions, including the largest union for meatpacking workers, are pushing the incoming Biden administration to select Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-Ohio) as the next Agriculture secretary.

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Young Farmers, FFA/4-H,

11/25/2020 SOURCE: www.ffa.org

Ford Features FFA Alum in NFL Thanksgiving Commercial | FFA.org

Nebraska's Hannah Borg described what it was like behind the scenes for the "once in a lifetime moment"

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TOPIC(S): Cotton, Conservation/Tillage, Consumer/Retail,

11/25/2020 SOURCE: sourcingjournal.com

Cotton Incorporated: Half a Century of Pioneering the Commodity Space

J. Berrye Worsham, Cotton Incorporated President and CEO, shares how the company has blazed a trail and the vision for the future.

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