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After gaining a solid foothold in the faux-beef market, alternative meat companies have their sights clearly set on gaining a slice of the chicken market. Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods, the two leading plant-based meat companies, both have new lines of chicken products hitting the market. Beyond Chicken Tenders are in hundreds of restaurants already, including Panda Express, where a ...
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Tabasco sauce is a staple in many American kitchens. It's so popular in fact that the brand name "Tabasco" is just another word for "hot sauce" in a lot of places. The name for the sauce stems from the peppers it's made with, tabasco peppers, which originated in Mexico. The man behind the iconic hot sauce - which was the ...
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Much like growing regions in the Northern U.S., Canada's wheat crops are in rough, rough shape. Our neighbors to the north are in the midst of the worst drought in two decades. This summer’s drought follows multiple consecutive years of below-normal precipitation in many parts of Canada's key farming regions. Combined with this year's intense heatwaves, strong winds, and lower-than-average ...
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If you're a fan of Japanese food, you are likely familiar with the spicy green paste served alongside sushi that most everyone just calls "wasabi." The tasty condiment gets its name from Wasabia japonica, aka Japanese horseradish. However, 95% of the so-called wasabi being served in sushi restaurants has absolutely no Japanese horseradish in it, relying instead on a mixture ...
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Food growers throughout the centuries have managed to cultivate plants in some of the most unlikely places on the planet, and even in space. One area we haven't tapped for crop production is the ocean, which at approximately 71% of Earth's surface far exceeds our land area. Beyond fish and seaweed, scientists and entrepreneurs are trying to figure how we ...
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We constantly hear all of the talk about weather extremes and climate change, but it was on this day back in 1935 that "The Dust Bowl" heatwave reached its peak, with temperatures of 109°F in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The drought itself actually came in three waves, 1934, 1936, and 1939–1940, but some regions of the High ...
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The average farm profit margin in the U.S. today is just over 11%, a figure that has been largely unchanged for decades. That’s why, in agriculture, running a tight ship and paying close attention to the details is so vitally important to overall profitability. You are invited to attend a webinar we are hosting on Thursday to learn how one new ...
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Most of us probably learned in grade school science class that our Moon's gravitational pull causes the rise and fall of ocean tides. What you might not know is that the force of that attraction waxes and wanes in conjunction with an 18.6-year lunar cycle. According to a NASA-led study, a new phase in the cycle could bring catastrophic flooding ...
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Farmers in the U.S. are increasingly running into unfamiliar signs of crop diseases with changing climate patterns allowing pathogens to take root in new areas. As correctly identifying the problem is one of the most crucial steps in preserving crop yields, we put together some information on disease threats being reported in new regions across key growing regions.  Corn:Tar Spot ...
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As agriculture emerged in early civilizations, crops were domesticated in four locations around the world — rice in China; grains and pulses in the Middle East; maize, beans and squash in Mesoamerica; and potatoes and quinoa in the Andes. What about corn??? Scientists believe people living in central Mexico developed corn at least 7000 years ago. It was started from a ...
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