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“Project Bison”… World’s Largest Carbon Removal Project Headed for Wyoming

Scheduled to be in operation by the end of 2023, the goal of the program, called Project Bison, is to build a new facility capable of drawing down 5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide annually by 2030.A Los Angeles-based company called CarbonCapture is building the facility, called a direct air capture (DAC) plant, that is expected to start operations ...
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What You Need to Know About the Recent Grants for Climate Smart Farming

I suggest everyone that's farming needs to do a much deeper dive on all of this grant money that has recently been approved and will bein circulation... Earlier this month, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is investing nearly three billion dollars in 70 selected projects under the first pool of the Partnerships for Climate-Smart ...
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Possibly One of the Best Recent Innovations by a Farmer

Gary Lewis, a Southern Alberta farmer who is growing mustard, wheat and yellow peas on nearly four thousand acres this summer isn't using traditional fertilizer, in fact, he hasn't used any for the last 20 years. Lewis, a fourth-generation farmer, and father to five says he's more than once come close to financial ruin in years when the crops have ...
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US Dog Lovers Aim to Save a Rare Cattle Herding Breed

If you're looking for a dog with a cool back story that can also get the job done, the "Barbado da Terceira", aka Terceira Cattle Dogs could be worth looking into. The 500-year-old Portugese breed hails from the volcanic island of the same name - Terceira - in the Azores archipelago. Also called the “Terceira Cattle Dog,” there are estimated ...
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What A Great Looking Piece of Land… New Zealand Farm “Halfway Bay Station” Sells for Record $18 Million!

A more than 44,000-acre alpine property in New Zealand known as "Halfway Bay Station" has just been sold for $18 million, a new record for the country. The property features over 4 miles of lake frontage and over 14 miles of frontage along the Lochy river, a world-renowned fly fishing spot. Surrounded by mountains, valleys, and an ecosystem that is ...
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Weather Startup Predicts Midwest Rainfall by Measuring Salt in the Ocean

Weather has always been one of farming's biggest enemies and with changing climate patterns bringing ever more extremes, the need to know what lies around the next corner seems ever more urgent. Most meteorologists say anything beyond a seven-to-ten day forecast is hard to trust but a startup out of Boston called "Salient Predictions" claims its weather technology can predict ...
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New Purple Tomato Will Test Consumer Appetites for GMOs Next Year

A new genetically modified purple tomato will be coloring farmers markets and grocery store produce aisles next year. About the size of a cherry, the team behind the completely purple fruit hopes to win over consumers not only with its unique color but also its potential health benefits and longer shelf life. The creators of the tomato are also aware ...
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Farm Safety Week Kicks Off With “Protecting Agriculture’s Future” Theme

The third week of September is National Farm Safety and Health Week, timed to coincide with the busy harvest season that leaves many farmers running low on both time and sleep. Not surprisingly, it's also the time of year that farm accidents tend to increase. Running September 19-23, this year's theme is "Protecting Agriculture's Future," a gentle reminder that the ...
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Your Next Bottle of Wine May Come From the Arctic Thanks to This Young Couple

Once seen as experimental land at the fringe of what's possible, the commercial wine industry in regions just below the Arctic Circle is starting to take advantage of the warmer summers. In the last decade, the region has become an emerging wine destination, a development spurred by hotter summers and the introduction of disease-resistant hybrid grape varieties that can resist ...
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How Dust Bowl Irrigation Innovations Helped Transform Agriculture

The "Dust Bowl" of the 1930s was named for the choking dust storms that swept across wide swaths of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma from approximately 1930 through 1936. By 1940, some 2.5 million Americans had pulled up stakes and abandoned the Great Plains along with tens of thousands of farms. While it ultimately became the largest ...
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