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The nation is craving protein, but Vermont dairy isn't cashing in
2+ hour, 43+ min ago (1495+ words) Dozens of dairy farmers from across the state drove to Grand Isle on July 2 with the intention of talking about a recent dairy plant closure. Instead, a larger issue emerged: Some dairy processors are giving up on Vermont, and the…...
Americans Were Hungry. FDR’s Government Was Killing Pigs to Raise Prices.
3+ hour, 22+ min ago (898+ words) In 1933, about one-quarter of America's workforce was unemployed. Hunger and malnutrition were widespread, families had lost homes and savings, and millions were trying to survive an economic catastrophe. Franklin Roosevelt's government responded to part of that crisis by paying farmers…...
Take in the feeder!
3+ hour, 32+ min ago (123+ words) Anchorage, like many other places has not yet figured out that when the yard is covered in guano it is not the time to add more feeders and nest boxes! Okay, it is an old article but still right on…...
Feature-Optimized AI Tracks Crop Water Stress in Egypt’s Nile Delta
3+ min ago (569+ words) In the intensively irrigated farmland of Egypt’s Nile Delta, knowing exactly when crops begin to suffer from water stress can mean the difference between a viable harvest and devastating losses....
Organic Rice Farming Rewrites the Grain Metabolome and Underground
56+ min ago (90+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, and the fine chemical details of each grain — its antioxidants, its vitamins, its stress compounds — are shaped as much by what happens in the soil as by the plant’s own genetics. A new…...
Stop Looking at Price Tags: How the Food of “Lower Realms” Blocks Your Future
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (229+ words) Why saving pennies on grams today guarantees paying medical bills tomorrow, and how food quality rewires your level …...
Scientists Map a Genome-Editing Roadmap to Cold-Resilient Peppers
2+ hour, 30+ min ago (70+ words) Peppers are among the world’s most valuable vegetable crops, prized for their culinary versatility, vibrant pigments, and nutritional content, yet they remain dangerously vulnerable to cold. Even brief exposure to chilling temperatures can disrupt membrane integrity, suppress photosynthesis, and throw…...
Scientists Discover the Cold-Proof Gene That Could Future-Proof Your Cup of
5+ hour, 14+ min ago (100+ words) Tea is one of the most consumed beverages on Earth, yet the plant behind it is surprisingly fragile when temperatures plunge. Late spring frosts can devastate tender tea leaves across highland plantations in China, Japan and beyond, wiping out harvests…...
The Future Of Farming Is Not Just Where We Grow, But How We Adapt
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (675+ words) Gabriel Miodownik is CEO & President of Netafim, Orbia’s Precision Agriculture business. This summer has brought extreme heat across Europe, with record temperatures arriving earlier and more intensely than many growers are used to planning for. We are also seeing a…...
Epigenetic Switches Could Arm Rice Against Its Deadliest Pathogens
5+ hour, 47+ min ago (679+ words) Rice feeds more than half of humanity, yet every harvest season it fights a silent war against two devastating enemies: the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, which causes rice blast, and the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the agent of bacterial blight....