Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Soil type, water availability, hybrid choice, plant population and crop nutrients are just some of the factors growers have to consider when pursuing a high-yielding corn crop on their farm. On this episode of RealAgriculture’s Soil School, we catch up with Aaron Stevanus as he shares how these factors are evaluated at the Stevanus Family. Read More Soil type, water availability, hybrid choice, plant population and crop nutrients are just some of the factors growers have to consider when p

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Agricultural Biodiversity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Landrace in situ (on-farm) conservation: European Union achievements. Lots of organizations and farmers are conserving landraces in Europe, in lots of ways, and pretty successfully, but the most sustainable way to do so would be to decrease barriers to their marketing, in particular in the context of organic agriculture. An assessment of the implementation of the EU policy for conservation varieties from 2009 to 2023 and its relationship to Geographical Indications.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 1, 2024

PCAST, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, has released its REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT A Vision for Advancing Nutrition Science in the United States. I learned about the report from a Tweet (X) : I wrote about an earlier draft of the report in a previous post: The federal vision for chronic disease prevention: individual behavior, not the environment.

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Civil Eats

OCTOBER 2, 2024

On a sunny California day, Ricky Bobby the goat chomps across a hillside with the speed and pizazz of his NASCAR driver namesake from Talladega Nights. Along with his fellow herd members, all employed by the nonprofit Happy Goat to reduce wildfire risks, Ricky Bobby is doing what he does best, gobbling up weeds, shrubs, and leaves from low-hanging branches.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It’s more common for private member’s bills to make more headway in a minority government, such as Canada has now. Several of these kinds of bills are making their way through parliament right now, and some of them have the potential to not only significantly impact agriculture but also Canada’s trade relationships as a whole. Read More It’s more common for private member’s bills to make more headway in a minority government, such as Canada has now.

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USDA Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Nearly twenty years ago, all that Dr. Circe Niezen, professor at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (PUPR), knew about the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) was the USDA approval sticker on her luggage for agricultural safety when she traveled from Puerto Rico to the continental United States.

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Food Politics

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Julian Baggini. How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy. Granta, 2024. 443 pages. I did a blurb for this one: How the World Eats is an enormously wide overview of how people throughout the entire world–from hunter-gatherers to NASA astronauts–view, exist within, manage, and try to improve their food systems. Baggini’s philosophy makes sense.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Canadian farm groups have voiced major concerns regarding a private member’s bill that has quietly reached the second reading stage in the Senate. Bill C-293, introduced in 2022 by Liberal MP and noted vegan, Nate Erskine-Smith, is one of many private member’s bills that have gained traction under the Liberal minority government. The bill would.

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NASDA

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Letter Dear Administrator Regan: The undersigned Members of Congress are writing about your agency’s recent actions that fail to recognize rendering as a critical food waste management strategy. We are concerned such an omission will create significant problems for agricultural producers and commercial establishments by preventing the conversion of recyclable organic materials into high-value, high-quality finished products.

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Berkeley Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Learn more about the legacy of the Free Speech Movement, and how the Berkeley community is carrying it forward today. The post A message from Chancellor Lyons on the 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This is the second article in a five-part series about restaurants and climate-change solutions, produced in collaboration with Eater. When Peter Platt was in Newport, Oregon in 2018, visiting Local Ocean Seafoods to bring them on as a supplier, he spoke with some of the fishermen docked outside the waterfront fish market and restaurant. “All the salmon fishermen were like, ‘We don’t even bother to fish off the coast here anymore.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Every now and then expected seasonality offers a surprise for grain growers. For fall of 2024, commodity markets are moving ever so slightly against seasonal trends and are actually edging higher ahead of the coming corn harvest. Ranulf Glanville, market analyst with Grainfox, says that market behaviour right now offers farmers some reasons to be. Read More Every now and then expected seasonality offers a surprise for grain growers.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Tough Decisions: Contribution margin can have a big impact when it comes to making beef cow decisions this fall.

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AgriLife Today

OCTOBER 1, 2024

AgriLife Extension specialist unravels the strategies of different spiderweb styles The post The strange types of spiderwebs found in nature appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Berkeley Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Nearly $13 million in funding announced today will establish the International Bioeconomy Macroalgae Center at UC Berkeley. The post New center to advance use of seaweed in the global economy appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Bayer CropScience Inc. has acquired the HyTech Production LTd. canola treating and packaging facility located at Coaldale, Alta, effective November 1. “As Bayer continues increasing its canola business, we have been exploring ways to enhance the processes and assets that contribute to this important crop,” says Antoine Bernet, president and CEO, Bayer Inc.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Two brothers transition into leadership on their family farm and find opportunities through young farmer programs.

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AgriLife Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Producers and students to benefit from additional expertise of Texas A&M Department of Agricultural Economics The post Three new faculty added to address agricultural, agribusiness challenges in Rio Grande Valley appeared first on AgriLife Today.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Annual plants are plants that complete their entire life cycle from germination to the production of seeds within a single growing season.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

In Episode 13 of The Truth About Ag podcast, host Evan Shout welcomes Clint Fischer, a South Dakota attorney specializing in farm family transitions and succession. In this discuss, they explore the intricate challenges faced by farm families during ownership transitions and discuss strategies that can help. Fischer is also founder of Braintrust Ag, an.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Soybean Watch: Look for signs of disease in late-season soybeans. Follow along as a seasoned agronomist determines the potential cause of this plant’s affliction.

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Agri-tech

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As a penultimate year architecture student from the University of Leeds, I never imagined that my journey would lead me to a placement at a world-leading research institute specialising in plant science, genetics and microbiology. Yet, here I am, wrapping up a two-month internship with the Next Generation Infrastructure (NGI) Programme Office at the John Innes Centre, and what an incredible.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Aquaponics farming is a sustainable method of food production that combines aquaculture (raising fish) and hydroponics (growing plants without soil) into a sing

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Canada’s cattle sector has faced its share of environmental challenges in recent years, as wide-spread and multi-year droughts have put pressure on the overall size of the Canadian cow herd. Several factors, including positive price signals and a return of pasture productivity, will be crucial in stabilizing the cow herd. Brenna Grant, executive director of.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Commodity prices, input costs and the future of ag trade weigh heavy on the farming community.

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Berkeley Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

UC Berkeley engineers have created a new computational tool for removing motion artifacts when imaging live biological samples. The post Bringing clarity to microscopic imaging appeared first on Berkeley News.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Family farming is a vital part of agriculture, providing food security and sustaining rural communities.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 2, 2024

As tar spot continues to spread northeast across Ontario’s corn region, growers are looking to build a better defence against the yield-robbing leaf disease. Crop genetics and fungicide will likely be the one-two punch growers use to control the disease, which is characterized by tar-like speckling on the upper surface of corn leaves. The fungal.

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Western FarmPress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

An Oklahoma farmer is interseeding wheat in between his cotton rows prior to defoliation. See what he's using and how he's integrating it into his crop rotation and cattle operation.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Kody McCleary wants more consumers to understand the work that goes into sustainable and humane pig farming. “Pig farmers, they’re there 365 days a year taking care of those animals,” says McCleary, a fourth-generation farmer at McCleary Farms in West-Central Illinois. “Going to Florida on vacation isn’t always an option for a livestock farmer.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Agriculture is one of the oldest and most essential activities in human history.

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Real Agriculture

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Over six hundred workers at the six main grain export terminals in Vancouver are returning to work as of Saturday, September 28. Their four day strike, which nearly halted grain shipments through Western Canada’s largest port, came to an end late Friday, as the Grain Workers Union Local 333 agreed to a tentative four-year deal.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 4, 2024

From finance to management, support is available for young and beginning farmers traversing the challenges in agriculture.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 2, 2024

On October 10 and 11, the Crops that Nourish Convening will bring together agriculture, food security, and environmental health experts to discuss a global agenda for crops that support the health of humans and the planet. Taking place at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., the event is organized by CIMMYT, Johns Hopkins University, CGIAR, the Institute for Planetary Health, and Food Tank.

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Agric4profits

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

Climate change refers to long-term alterations in temperature, precipitation, wind patterns, and other elements of the Earth’s climate system.

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Real Agriculture

OCTOBER 3, 2024

There is nothing quite like the smell and taste of a loaf of bread fresh from the oven. In the fall of 2026, more western Canadian wheat will have fewer miles to travel to get from the combine to the oven in Alberta. Parrish and Heimbecker (P&H) Milling Group and the Alberta government recently announced. Read More There is nothing quite like the smell and taste of a loaf of bread fresh from the oven.

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Western FarmPress

OCTOBER 3, 2024

While it takes extra management, calving in fall has its benefits.

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