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Somewhat surprisingly, NASA has played a big role in the development of many new food technologies that have emerged. Any long-term space mission that the agency hopes to conduct needs a way of producing food as transporting enough packaged food to sustain astronauts just isn't practical. And obviously, food production will be a necessary capability if humans are going to ...
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You do the math... data shows we are already using 70% of the global freshwater supply for ag irrigation, yet there are still an estimated 800 million chronically undernourished people in the world today. In other words, the world needs more freshwater to help maximize crop yield, but at the same time we need to save water and other scarce ...
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Nearly 85% of the food that humans produce requires the help of a pollinator. One of the hardest working insects in this group is the bee, which pollinates an estimated 1 in 3 bites of food we eat. However, we have all seen the studies and data that indicate more than half of these essential creatures in North America are ...
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The Better Meat Co. has been providing plant-based proteins to alternative meat and poultry companies for several years now. Most notably, Perdue Farms uses the company's protein formulas in its Chicken Plus line of nuggets, tenders, and patties, which are sold in over 7,000 grocery stores. They are just one of many partnerships the Better Meat Co. has established since ...
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One of North America's most toxic plants, poison hemlock, is currently blooming in areas across the United States where the plant has taken up residency. The weed is part of the parsley family and is most easily recognizable by its finely divided leaves that look very similar to wild carrot, aka Queen Anne's lace. Unlike wild carrot, however, which is ...
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Land is one of the oldest investment classes in existence, producing enormous wealth over generations. In the U.S. farmland represents an attractive, long-term investment while providing significant relative capital preservation during times of economic turmoil. Alongside a rapidly growing global population and demand for food, farmland offers a truly diversified investment opportunity with attractive long-term returns.A company called AcreTrader is ...
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Aerial input application, better known to some as "crop-dusting," is still mostly done with low-flying planes. There has been a steady increase in both the technological capabilities and farmer adoption of drones to do this work, with company's like Rantizo making impressive strides. A new entrant in the space, Guardian Agriculture, has developed an autonomous eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and ...
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For all mankind's technological advances, one thing we still can't do is make it rain. Finding that solution is growing more urgent in many parts of the world, including the U.S. According to the World Wildlife Fund, two-thirds of the world's population may face water shortages by 2025. One effort that researchers have been studying for decades is "cloud seeding" ...
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I'm always fielding questions from producers and investors in different parts of the country that are curious about the various classes of wheat. We put together a quick little cheat sheet that should help simplify and more easily explain. Wheat was first brought to the U.S. by early colonists from Europe who had become accustomed to the superior baked goods ...
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Agriculture is frequently portrayed as one of the bad guys in the "environmental" story, while its decades of contributions to the health of land and the overall environment are too often overlooked. That may be why the new Sustainability Report from the National Corn Growers Association feels like such a welcome relief, with solid numbers documenting how corn farmers have ...
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