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We’ve all heard the warnings. Crop production needs to increase +70% by 2050 just to keep up with population growth. Available arable land has been decreasing worldwide since the 1960s. And at the same time, we are being forced to change our practices and scale back in many areas because of climate change. That’s the bad news. The good news ...
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Last week America celebrated National Potato day and many historians will agree that today is the anniversary of the invention of the "potato chip", which took place in 1853 at the Moon’s Lake House on Saratoga Lake in New York thanks to chef George Crum and a disgruntled customer.Interestingly the story really begins in France with the adoption of the ...
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Venture capital has been funneling a lot of money into the agriculture and food technology space, thanks in part to the pandemic which highlighted existing fragilities in the global food supply chain. Some of the biggest fundraising buzz has centered around alternative proteins but the number shows that "farm tech", aka technologies for farmers, is even more popular with investors ...
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Canola markets face serious supply issues ahead with the crop in Canada taking a devastating hit from this year's drought. Coupled with lowered output in Ukraine and Kazakhstan, production increases elsewhere won't be enough to offset the losses. Canada's production hit is particularly significant for the global export market, as the country accounts for about two-thirds of total global exports ...
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Samuel Leeds Allen was the founder of S.L. Allen & Company in Philadelphia. He was the inventor of, and his company manufactured, both the Flexible Flyer sled and Planet Jr farm and garden equipment. For over one hundred years these products were the best selling and most famous American sleds and market gardening tools. During his lifetime and for the ...
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A major component of modern agriculture is synthetic fertilizers, which have largely contributed to the huge improvements in crop yields over the last several decades. However, these products come at a cost. Nitrogenous fertilizer production accounts for approximately 2% of global energy consumption and can have significant negative long-term impacts on soil health and plant microbes worldwide.Intrinsyx Bio is a ...
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Ever wonder where your favorite Western film or television show was filmed? The answer is probably one of the dozens of ranches that Hollywood has regularly used since the dawn of the film era. These "movie ranches" first popped up within a 30 mile area around early Hollywood, with studios purchases large tracts of still mostly rural Southern California starting ...
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I hear so many in agriculture say, "This is how my daddy did it and how his daddy did it and this is how we are going to keep doing it..." I heard that a lot growing up at several farms in my area. As I've gotten older however I've come to learn that it takes a lot more than ...
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The Gulf Stream — one of Earth's major climate-regulating ocean currents — is now thought to be moving slower than it has in thousands of years, a new study suggests. Some are arguing the current could slow down to a point of no return, and in the process further alter and impact the climate on both sides of the Atlantic ...
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Disease, crop infestation and pollution are age-old threats to our world that are increasingly gaining more attention in the headlines. New solutions are now being created to better address these threats. Fortunately, many of the solutions can be found right beneath our feet, in the soil. A new company called Pluton Biosciences is using technology that is able to quickly ...
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