A Roadmap to Better Decision Making

Meat from genetically edited pigs may be on grocery store shelves within the next couple of years if things go according to plan for UK-based Genus PLC. The company’s pigs are engineered to resist the virus that causes porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS), one of the most economically devastating diseases faced by the pork industry.  If approved, the pigs ...
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Dartmouth's men’s basketball team voted 13-2 yesterday in favor of forming a "union". Yes, you read that correctly, the basketball team is unionizing. As someone who played college sports, and is greatly appreciative of the opportunity, this blows my mind. My parents told me as far back as I could remember, that once I graduated high school and turned 18, ...
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Crop prices are being pressured lower and lower and in return US farm income is forecast to take a sizable step backward. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that one. In fact, US farm income in 2024 is forecast to tumble -25.5% versus last year, according to the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS). Adjusting for inflation, the projected ...
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Despite increasingly hostile farmer demonstrations, the European parliament just passed its highly controversial Nature Restoration Law (NRL) that agricultural stakeholders say will saddle them with burdensome costs and bureaucracy. The plan is a key pillar of the EU’s “Green Deal” that seeks to establish the world’s most ambitious climate and biodiversity targets and make the EU the “global point of ...
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National Pig Day, celebrated every year on March 1, is a perfect time to recognize a key part of US agriculture and one of the most widely consumed proteins in the world. Two sisters, Ellen Stanley of Lubbock, Texas and Mary Lynne Rave of Beaufort, North Carolina, created National Pig Day in 1972. While more than a few might feel ...
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French startup Ÿnsect has been granted authorization to use defatted mealworm proteins in dog food. The green light from the Association of American Feed Control Officials (AAFCO) marks the first authorization for the commercialization of defatted mealworm proteins in the US. Ÿnsect says the approval follows two years of evaluation by AAFCO, which is responsible for animal food safety. The ...
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One of the most important decisions a producer makes every year is what seed to put in the ground. While good quality seeds play a critical role in the success of any crop, not every good seed is ideal for every farm. A new tool from AcreShield aims to take the guesswork out of this crucial decision-making process. Called “Yield ...
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Farmland is one of the best asset classes around, outperforming most other major assets over the past three decades. That trend is only expected to accelerate as farmland steadily becomes more scarce even as global food demand continues to rise. This has not gone unnoticed by investors, which have been adding farmland to their portfolios at a record pace. According ...
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Indiana farmer and well-known “Ag-vocate” Brian Scott, who does a lot of work trying to bring the producers and consumers together on topics of debate, once shared his collection of the most Game-Changing people in agriculture. Reading and reviewing the list makes me wonder what and who comes next. Will they have something to do with water, seed, soil, livestock, ...
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A new study from a team of scientists at Chalmers University in Sweden describes how microbes in soil and water may be evolving to eat plastic. The researchers found the evidence in DNA samples taken from the environment, which revealed some 30,000 unique enzymes that are capable of degrading 10 different types of plastics.The researchers believe that as many as ...
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