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Food delivery services during a pandemic may not have been the plan but certainly may turn out to be the opportunity robotics was looking for to shine. As the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing us to social distance it is also pushing some robotics companies to accelerate their long-term objectives. You may not be seeing them on your doorstep just yet ...
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USDA recently announced details for a $470 million excess food purchase program designed to support both struggling producers and families in need. The money will be used by the Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to purchase a wide variety of produce, meats, and dairy that otherwise may go to waste amid the severe food supply chain disruptions created by the coronavirus ...
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The American spirit lives on at a 300-year-old, cream-line dairy farm, where a farmer is working around the clock to bottle his own milk after his processor told him to dump it. Locals are lining up to support him. Brown’s Whoa Nellie Dairy farm has been providing high-quality, cream-line milk since the 1700s. He sells some of it at his ...
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As if 2020 didn't have enough apocryphal stories brewing, we now have the giant Asian Hornets to add to the mix. I've been seeing this story circulating around Facebook and other media sites and thought it was worth exploring and sharing some insight on this nasty looking insect. Having landed on American soil for the first time ever, researchers are ...
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“Imagine you were born in 1900. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits the planet and runs until your 20th birthday. 50 million people die from it in those two years. Yes, 50 million. On your 29th ...
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CORN bears are pointing to what many producers in big production states are calling the best planting conditions they've seen in several years. Bulls are pointing to extremely cool temps in the forecast - possibly below 30 degrees - and some important areas where producers have already been planting into cold soil temps. The fear is root development problems, increased ...
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Solar is being installed at an increasing clip across the United States with large-scale projects looking to farms for the massive tracts of land needed for their development. In fact, I've personally spoken with and talked to several landowners who have recently inked longterm leases (10 to 30 years) on +800 acre tracts for between $600 and $1,200 per acre ...
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Nearly five years ago Aleh Manchulianstau, a food scientist, and co-founder of PLANETARIANS stumbled across defatted sunflower seeds, the dry matter left after oil extraction, which because of its hard, woodlike structure, is either completely discarded by the food industry or fed to cows. Manchuliantsau saw other opportunities for this 35% protein ingredient and quickly cofounded the company. Manchuliantsau realized ...
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An interesting new report from the Supporters of Agricultural Research Foundation (SoAR) shows that investing in agricultural research results in a long-term economic boost for the farm industry. The report comes as U.S. farmers are beset by slew of economic complications and Congress works on additional stimulus measures to address the pandemic-related fallout as well as its federal spending budget ...
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Chew on this Chinese math... U.S. stocks just finish their strongest month since 1987, at the same time the six-week unemployment total is now +30 million, implying a jobless rate of around 22%, the worst since the Great Depression, and more than twice the 10% peak reached in 2009. Consumer Spending, which accounts for more than two-thirds of the U.S ...
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