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            Carbon Dioxide is what's greening the planet            ]]></title>
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            The Climate Change charlatans have been telling us global warming is going to make the planet less habitable, the climate more erratic and displace millions of 'climate change refugees.'  The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have documented the planet's green area has increased ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2024-02-13 22:54:29</pubDate>
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            The Carbonism Cult            ]]></title>
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            ONFARM, 15/12/2023
When you take a high-level look at the environmental/consumer/farmer matrix it looks as if there is a small minority of so-called environmentalists who are exceptionally well resourced and organised on one side, and on the other side we have the busy siloed farmer producing food ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2023-02-14 23:53:33</pubDate>
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            WILL A PLANT BASED DIET DESTROY THE WORLD?            ]]></title>
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            Since the 1950s, agricultural projects have grown exponentially. Chemical fertilizers, pesticides and irrigation are now commonplace in industrial farming; enormous tracts of land from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands acres can be seen blanketed with one type crop after another. It is clear ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2023-02-03 06:56:57</pubDate>
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            Allington Family Farm CSA            ]]></title>
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            3/6/2020


 





Welcoming Travis, Zoe and their family at Allington Family Farm CSA to our CSA Australia & New Zealand community.​Located in the Harvey Hills, Allington Family Farm produces ethical and sustainable lamb their farm consists of several leased properties spread over ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-08-02 04:50:52</pubDate>
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            CSA Network Australia and New Zealand News Blog : July 2018            ]]></title>
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            Greetings,
and welcome to the first CSA Network Australia and New Zealand News Blog : July 2018
Food is the great connector. Communities that have the resources to feed themselves are more resilient, healthier, and foster better relationships to each other and to the land. Food is one of our ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-08-02 04:46:24</pubDate>
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            The Prison Garden Empowering Women to Pursue Growth            ]]></title>
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							Behind a women’s prison facility in Atlanta, there’s a garden about a quarter of an acre in size. Despite its small area, it produces plenty of blackberries, tomatoes, peppers and more—enough to feed the women growing the food, as well as a nearby community. Situated between two ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-27 20:06:25</pubDate>
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            How More Than a Century of Antarctic Agriculture Is Helping Scientists Grow Food in Space            ]]></title>
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							This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Figuring out how to feed people in space is a major part of a larger effort to demonstrate the viability of long-term human habitation of extraterrestrial environments. On May ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-24 19:50:25</pubDate>
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            These Farmers and Ranchers Turn Trash Into Treasure            ]]></title>
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							A ranch in Montana is an odd place to find a big, old street sweeper brush, but the bison appear to love it. Yes, we’re talking about those brushes that street sweeper trucks use to push trash around while requiring city dwellers to move their cars. Apparently, after the Department of ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-23 19:46:11</pubDate>
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            How Saving Seeds Is Helping This Modern Farmer Reconnect With Her Roots            ]]></title>
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							When Tiffany Traverse thinks about growing and eating the same food that her ancestors ate, she gets excited. “I want others to feel that way, too! We should all be able to feel that connection to place and food,” says the Indigenous farmer.
Traverse and her husband own and operate ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-21 19:37:08</pubDate>
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            Can Biodigesters Save America’s Small Dairy Farms?            ]]></title>
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							Small dairy farms in Vermont teeter chronically on the brink of insolvency. Nearly half of Vermont’s dairies have gone out of business in the past 10 years, primarily small farms. Things got even worse during the pandemic, with volatile prices and supply chain shifts. The pattern is ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 19:09:03</pubDate>
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            Meet the Modern Farmer Saving Turkey’s Heirloom Seeds            ]]></title>
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							When Mehmet Öztan moved to the US in 2006, he never imagined he’d one day become a seed farmer in West Virginia or that he would become the caretaker of one of the largest collections of Turkish seeds in the country.
Öztan originally came to the United States to pursue a PhD in civil ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:27</pubDate>
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            To Meet the Demand for Organic Crops, We Need to Produce More Organic Seed            ]]></title>
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							Twenty-two years ago, when the US Department of Agriculture finalized the standards for its National Organic Program, produce breeders went back to the drawing board. There was little organically grown seed available for farmers to purchase or for breeders like Oregon State University’s ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:26</pubDate>
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            How to Graft a Tree Using the ‘Whip and Tongue’ Method            ]]></title>
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							Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may want to think about integrating this season: grafting. 
Why would you want to ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:25</pubDate>
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            Vineyards Grapple With How to Best Keep Their Workers Safe            ]]></title>
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							Shannon Donnell remembers a time, just five years ago, when she didn’t see a wildfire break out until late November—well after wine grapes in Sonoma County, California had been fully harvested. Now, Donnell says that wildfires start up right at the beginning of harvest season, typically ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:25</pubDate>
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            What Can Be Done About the Phosphorus Crisis?            ]]></title>
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							When it comes to growing crops, fertilizer is a vital component. And when it comes to making fertilizer, phosphorus—a mineral crucial to living organisms—is often a key ingredient. 
So what happens to the agriculture industry if phosphorus, of which stock is diminishing, runs out?
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            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:24</pubDate>
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            Rescued Ducks Play a Vital Role on This Vegan Farm            ]]></title>
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							In the Green Mountains of northern Vermont, a plot of nearly 1,300 acres is home to an abundance of flora and fauna, a flock of ducks and two farmers: Melissa Hoffman and Shawn Smith. The ducks at Sho Farm and Sanctuary are not being raised to be slaughtered for food. Rather, they are ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:24</pubDate>
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            How the Bird Flu Outbreak Is Affecting Backyard Egg Sellers            ]]></title>
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							First, you have to contain your birds. Keep them inside the coop or a run, although they won’t like that. Then, focus on yourself and what you’re wearing. Have a boot wash station, a change of gloves, maybe a set of coveralls just for the hen house. Keep a close eye out for symptoms and ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:23</pubDate>
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            USDA Renews People’s Garden with New Locations            ]]></title>
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							Last week, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack officially reopened the first People’s Garden on the National Mall in Washington, DC. Situated centrally, the garden benefits from foot traffic from people heading to the Smithsonian, and it draws a lot of attention. There are signs up ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:23</pubDate>
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            The Lasting Legacy of the First Farmland Preservation Program            ]]></title>
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							Drive through New York’s western Long Island on any given afternoon—particularly as rush hour approaches—and you’ll be moved not by the idyllic rolling hills of verdant farmland but, rather, by the throb of traffic on the LIE (local parlance for the ever-crowded highway known as the ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:22</pubDate>
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            Measuring the True Amount of Food Loss on Farms            ]]></title>
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							There are three categories for produce: marketable; edible but not marketable; and inedible. The first category is great, and it’s what every grower strives for. That’s the perfect apple or great-looking squash that comes out of harvest, meeting the highest grading standards. That’s ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-05-16 07:06:22</pubDate>
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            Solar-Driven System Could Produce Electricity and Water in Desert Regions            ]]></title>
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							Scientists in Saudi Arabia have developed and piloted what could be a useful tool to help curb food insecurity in regions facing water accessibility issues.  
The technology, called WEC2P, is a green energy system that uses solar panels to suck up moisture from the air and convert it into ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-22 15:13:02</pubDate>
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            Harnessing the Benefits of Wild Birds On Farms            ]]></title>
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							A study conducted by the University of California Davis found that keeping natural habitats surrounding farmland intact can reduce the spread of pathogens and damage from wild birds to crops.
The experiment, published last month in the Journal of Applied Ecology, surveyed 21 ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-18 14:50:31</pubDate>
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            Banana Paper Could Help Fight a Common Potato Pest            ]]></title>
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							For a potato farmer, there are few moments as discouraging as a run-in with the potato cyst nematode, which causes yellowing leaves and stunted spuds to be covered in legions. The pest has been identified in 58 countries, where it has seeped into the soil and caused infection, diminishing ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-17 14:45:07</pubDate>
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            Opinion: Farmers Are Overusing Insecticide-Coated Seeds            ]]></title>
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							This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
Planting season for corn and soybeans across the US will begin as soon as March in Southern states and then move north. As farmers plant, they will deploy vast quantities of ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-15 14:35:09</pubDate>
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            Antibiotic Commonly Used in Orchards Slows Cognition of Bumblebees            ]]></title>
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							A new study found that streptomycin, a popular antibiotic sprayed on food crops, negatively impacts the behavior of bumblebees.
The study, funded by a USDA grant and conducted by scientists at Emory University and the University of Washington, showed that streptomycin “slows the cognition ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-11 14:18:57</pubDate>
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            Oregon Becomes Eighth State to Pass Overtime Pay for Farmworkers            ]]></title>
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							After recent years of record-high temperatures and raging wildfires, Oregon farmworkers will now be entitled to overtime pay under a bill passed by the state legislature last week. 
The legislation states that farmworkers will eventually be entitled to overtime pay after 40 hours of work. ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-10 14:14:09</pubDate>
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            Farmers Struggle to Keep Up With the Rising Costs of Fertilizer            ]]></title>
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							Arkansas farmer Matt Miles knows his way around pastures—and he has the records to prove it. In 2013, he harvested a 107.63-bushel soybean field, smashing the state yield record. Six years later, in 2019, he surpassed his own record, producing a whopping 120.53 bushels per acre. And ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-09 14:07:11</pubDate>
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            The Accidental Farmers            ]]></title>
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							When Sandra Baer and Lynn Cassells met in 2012 while working as rangers for the UK’s National Trust, they felt an instant connection, as if there were larger forces at work pushing the two women together, and they simply had to surrender to the journey. Before long, the two were more than ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-09 14:07:11</pubDate>
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            New Equity Commission Sets Out to Strengthen the USDA’s Equitable Practices            ]]></title>
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							The USDA has a long history of discrimination against minority farmers. 
The department’s discriminatory practices factored into 90 percent of Black farmers losing the 14 million acres of land they once owned in the 20th century. The USDA was even found to be distorting data to create ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-09 14:07:10</pubDate>
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            Proposed Hemp Bill Would Open Field Up to More Growers            ]]></title>
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							The country’s first national hemp survey was released last week, applying data to trends many have already observed. Although hemp was sold to farmers as the next big agricultural advancement, it has largely failed to live up to the hype, with fewer growers in the industry and lower ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-09 14:07:10</pubDate>
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            What the War in Ukraine Means for US Agriculture            ]]></title>
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							This article is republished from The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. Read the original article.
As Ukraine continues to fight against Russian forces, experts warned of potential fallout for the US agriculture industry.
On Feb. 24, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-09 14:07:10</pubDate>
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            Stretching California’s Rice Belt            ]]></title>
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As California entered a second year of drought last spring, the slash in water allocation didn’t catch Rachel Krach and Greg Massa, owners of Massa Organics, by surprise. The real shocker came when they went to plant their Sacramento Valley rice fields: an unprecedented, three-week delay ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-09 14:07:10</pubDate>
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            Food Grown On Regenerative Farms Could Actually Be Healthier For You            ]]></title>
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							There might be more to regenerative agriculture than its ability to enhance farm ecosystems, capture carbon or boost soil biodiversity. Recent research has pointed to perks going beyond the farm and all the way to your fork—suggesting food grown on regeneratively managed farms is more ...            ]]></description>
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            What We Learned From the Nation’s First Hemp Survey            ]]></title>
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							Just a few years ago, hemp was sold as the next big cash crop, with the 2018 Farm Bill pushing production along. The bill formally distinguished between hemp and cannabis and opened up the market for producers to flood in. Thousands of people began farming hemp, but up until now, there ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-02 10:14:18</pubDate>
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            In Georgia, 19 Families Are Building a Farm to Feed Their Black Community            ]]></title>
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							Ashley Scott got a glimpse of what it means to be self-sufficient far before the era of pandemic gardening. It was 2014, and Scott, fresh out of college, decided to grow a patch of cucumbers in her backyard as a small pet project. 
Weeks later, however, her tiny garden manifested into ...            ]]></description>
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            Meet the Modern Farmer Working to Increase Food Self-Reliance in Hawaii            ]]></title>
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							In 2012, after the Great Recession, legislation was introduced in Hawaii that acknowledged and attempted to solve the archipelago’s dangerous dependence on imported food. 
At the time, 92 percent of Hawaii’s food was coming from somewhere else.
However, before the legislation was ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-02 10:14:18</pubDate>
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            The Plan to Save Australia’s Wild Macadamia Trees            ]]></title>
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							Ian McConachie has spent much of the past 50 years tramping through the rainforest on the hunt for wild macadamia trees. “Finding a wild macadamia is akin to the thrill of finding gold,” he says.
Yet it’s not the sweet buttery nuts that command up to $25 per pound for which he’s ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-02 10:14:17</pubDate>
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            A Produce Garden Flourishes Beneath the Ligurian Sea            ]]></title>
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							On the terraced hillsides of Liguria in Northern Italy, the fragrant scent of basil fills the air, much of it destined to be crushed in a mortar with olive oil, garlic, pine nuts, salt, parmesan and pecorino cheese to make traditional pesto Genovese. It’s little surprise that this leafy ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-02 10:14:17</pubDate>
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            The Future of Farming in Space            ]]></title>
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							As the global amount of arable land steadily decreases, some scientists and entrepreneurs are looking to the stars as the next great agrarian frontier. A concept as old as the first science fiction story, humanity’s escape to a life in space hinges on the ability to produce edible and ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2022-03-02 10:14:16</pubDate>
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            Studying How Cotton Seedlings Grow in Zero Gravity            ]]></title>
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							In hopes of discovering ways to reinvent how cotton grows, botanists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have sent the plant to space. 
On Earth, gravity is the primary factor in a plant’s root systems digging into the ground. This experiment, dubbed Targeting Improved Cotton Through ...            ]]></description>
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            Opinion: Cow’s Milk Without the Cow? How Cellular Agriculture Could Change the Dairy Industry            ]]></title>
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							This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
A new wave of cow-less dairy is hitting the market. In the United States, Perfect Day is using genetically modified fungi to produce milk protein for ice cream at a commercial ...            ]]></description>
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            Highlights from the USDA’s 2022 Commodity Outlook Reports            ]]></title>
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							The USDA anticipates a year of moderate to strong growth across many commodity sectors, with generally strong prices and high levels of exports, even as global conditions remain uncertain. 
The 2022 Commodity Outlook reports, released last week, focused on sugar, dairy, grain and oilseeds, ...            ]]></description>
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            What Spending Five Months on Bed Rest in an Old Farmhouse Taught Me            ]]></title>
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							“Forget it. Just throw them in the garbage,” I said to my husband Chris who was standing in front of me with a huge plastic bin meant for Christmas ornaments; only there was no holiday cheer inside this bin. Instead, it was filled with almost a hundred bills in various states of ...            ]]></description>
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            Meet the Modern Farmer Helping Colombian Coffee Growers            ]]></title>
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							Nearly a decade ago, Maria Palacio left the lush green fields of her family’s coffee farm in Colombia in search of new opportunities in New York City. She hoped to pursue the fashion career of her dreams. But amid the hustle and bustle of working for high-end designers such as Marc Jacobs ...            ]]></description>
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            How to Get Rid of Spotted Lanternflies            ]]></title>
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							Native to China, the spotted lanternfly is a visually beautiful insect with spotted outer wings and brightly colored red and white inner wings. But don’t be fooled. Although they may be pretty to look at, the pests should be destroyed immediately.
While the spotted lanternfly is not a ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-10-23 15:40:11</pubDate>
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            There’s a Pumpkin Fungus Among Us            ]]></title>
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							If you’ve had trouble finding a pumpkin to plant on your doorstep just in time for spooky season, chances are you’re not alone.
Chatter around pumpkin shortages has been circulating in recent weeks. The main culprit of such a crisis? Unfavorable weather conditions, shipping issues and a ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-10-22 03:32:10</pubDate>
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            How One Organization is Restoring a Community of Black Farmers            ]]></title>
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							Over the last 100 years, the number of Black farmers has dropped precipitously. Most estimates report that Black farmers have lost more than 12 million acres of land in the last century, or 90 percent of their previous holdings. One study calculated the lost profits that would have gone to ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-10-21 15:29:17</pubDate>
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            Organic Soybean Prices Spike Despite Huge US Soybean Production            ]]></title>
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							Organic soybeans are a crucial crop for the production of organic soy products, such as soy milk and tofu. In the US, organic soybeans are also a major component of feed for organic-certified livestock. As Reuters reports, the prices of organic soybeans have soared higher than they’ve ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-10-21 03:27:04</pubDate>
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            Rising Temperatures and the Future of Outside Livestock Production            ]]></title>
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							Amidst climbing temperatures and record-breaking heat waves, farmers worldwide have seen the health and production of their livestock come under threat in recent years. The ways in which a specific animal responds to heat stress vary, but cattle, sheep, goats, poultry and pigs are all ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-30 13:56:01</pubDate>
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            How California Wildfires Are Affecting Vineyards            ]]></title>
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							Fires are a fact of life in California, but the severity and volume of the fires lately are causing major problems for one of the state’s most important agricultural crops: grapes.
Winegrape growing is a fundamental and significant part of the agricultural output of the most ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-29 01:50:05</pubDate>
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            Why Defining Agricultural Terms is Critical            ]]></title>
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							Some agricultural terms—such as “organic”— seem pretty straightforward. There is a certification process, in which farmers need to show each step of the production cycle, and there can be regular audits to ensure a level of quality control.
But other terms are fuzzier. What does ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-28 13:48:01</pubDate>
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            The Unique Struggle of Running a Sheep Dairy in America            ]]></title>
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							The challenges of small-scale farming are well documented, especially in a world grappling with issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Supply chains have been disrupted and consumers now shop for food differently. Climate change continues to take a toll.
“With fire and droughts, the cost ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-27 13:44:09</pubDate>
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            America's Oldest Continuously Operating Victory Garden            ]]></title>
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"Don't it always seem to goThat you don't know what you got 'til it's goneThey paved paradise and put up a parking lot."—Joni Mitchell
Throughout my life, I have found that maintaining a positive outlook has helped me achieve many good things. At the risk of sounding like a self-help book ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-24 13:32:08</pubDate>
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            Tar Spot Disease Is Plaguing Corn Fields Across the Midwest            ]]></title>
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							Pesky infestations of tar spot disease are expected to put another dent in farmers’ yields across the Midwest, according to a team of scientists that specializes in crop pathology.
Tar spot is recognized by its raised black spots that sprout on healthy or dead tissue of corn leaves, ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-23 01:26:09</pubDate>
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            The Companies Specializing in Farm-to-Door Delivery Service            ]]></title>
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							When the pandemic hit in March 2020, temporarily closing farmers’ markets and restaurants, farmer Katie Madden knew she had to quickly shift gears in order to sell what her farm had already grown. So the co-owner of Missoula Grain and Vegetable Co. in southwest Montana signed up for an ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:06</pubDate>
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            Ladybug Odor Could Be a Great New Pesticide            ]]></title>
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							Commercial farmers and home gardeners alike know the deep annoyance and damage that aphids can cause.
One highly effective, environmentally safe and adorable method for fighting aphids is to release ladybugs into an affected area, as ladybugs will prey on aphids. The aphids, though, know ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:06</pubDate>
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            Protecting the Timber Industry From the Emerald Ash Borer            ]]></title>
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							This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
The emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) is a deceptively attractive metallic-green adult beetle with a red abdomen. But few people ever actually see the insect itself—just ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:06</pubDate>
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            Wild Relatives of Important Food Crops Are Facing Extinction            ]]></title>
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							Wild relatives of some of the world’s most important agricultural crops such as corn, beans and potatoes are important to future food security. But many of them are facing extinction, a new study finds.
Most of the staple foods we eat today come from domesticated plants. Crop wild ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:05</pubDate>
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            How Has Hurricane Ida Affected Agriculture and Food?            ]]></title>
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							Hurricane Ida, one of the most destructive storms to hit the Gulf and East coast of the United States in recent memory, took its toll on American agriculture, in ways both obvious and subtle. Now, just over a week since the hurricane hit, we’re starting to get a sense of what was ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:05</pubDate>
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            Farmers Across the Midwest Struggle to Hire Domestic Employees            ]]></title>
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							This article is republished from The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. Read the original article.
Linnea Kooistra’s roots in farming go back 10 generations. She and her husband, Joel, were both raised on dairy farms, and they operated their own in Woodstock, Illinois, for over ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:05</pubDate>
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            Cultivating Resilience: Growing Olives in Palestine            ]]></title>
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							Next month, Abbas Milhem will join thousands of other Palestinian farmers in the annual olive harvest. As the sun beats down over the desert of the West Bank, farmers and their families will spend long hours reaching up into the branches of the gnarled olive trees, shaking the fruit loose ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:05</pubDate>
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            One Way to Grow Despite Drought? It’s in the Roots            ]]></title>
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							As parts of the world become more arid, researchers have been looking for drought-resistant plants, ways to get the most out of what little water there is. But researchers at the University of Bonn say not enough attention is paid to the roots, which may end up being the root of the ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:05</pubDate>
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            How Can Farmers Coexist With Wolves?            ]]></title>
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							Wolves, and their predation of livestock, are a major issue for farmers, whether that’s a perception or a reality. And large carnivores are coming back to places where they had previously been eliminated, thanks to improved conservation efforts and, as in the case of the Eastern Coyote, ...            ]]></description>
            <pubDate> 2021-09-22 07:51:05</pubDate>
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            Is Virginia’s Beekeeping Lottery a Good Idea?            ]]></title>
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							Virginia’s honeybees are dying.
Unfortunately, it’s not a unique problem; there’s hardly a region of the country that isn’t dealing with the mass death of vast numbers of honeybees or other pollinators. The Bee Informed Partnership estimates that U.S. beekeepers lost around 45.5 ...            ]]></description>
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            Five things I learned on a tour of a meat chicken farm            ]]></title>
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            By Guest Blogger Annabel Selby-Jones, ACMF Communications Manager
The Australian meat chicken farming industry is one that has been tainted by some long-standing myths and misperceptions, so when the chance came to see things for myself, I jumped at it. Being new to the industry, I had my own ...            ]]></description>
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            How sustainable is chicken farming?            ]]></title>
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How sustainable is chicken farming?

 








With all agricultural industries across Australia looking at how they can operate more sustainably and considering whether, and when, a carbon neutral future may be possible, it is timely to reflect on what the chicken industry's ...            ]]></description>
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            Aussie chicken and plant based alternatives - don't believe the            ]]></title>
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Aussie Chicken and Plant Based Alternatives: Don't Believe The Hype

 








By Guest Blogger Dr Stephen Wiedemann, Managing Director and Principal Scientist at Integrity Ag and Environment Pty Ltd
Veggie burgers aren't new, but it's only relatively recently that marketing of ...            ]]></description>
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