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| "Gathering Bracken" by Henry Herbert La Thangue 1899 |
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- FAO Biannual Food Outlook Report (PDF) | FAO
- What's the deal with transmission and eminent domain? An Example from Iowa. | Center for Rural Affairs
- What’s up with trade in agriculture? | Food Politics
- Between 2007 and 2014, 15.8 million acres in the CRP program were not re-enrolled | Environmental Working Group
- Iowa farmers have pulled nearly 750,000 idled acres back into production in a seven-year span | DesMoines Register
- Wheat production in 2017/18 expected to fall sharply (Chart) | USDA
- FAO Food Price Index rebounds in May | FAO
- Slugging it out with a new contender in the GMO debate | Grist
- A new drive-thru salad bar should scare McDonald's and Burger King | Business Insider
- Nation’s tallest timber building to rise in Portland | Inhabitat
- New Consortium to Reduce Greenhouse Energy Use | Cornell Univ.
- Silvopasture: Integrating Agriculture and Forestry | NCSU.edu
- Combatting weeds with lasers | Alpha Galileo
- Visit Tsukiji, a ‘Great Wonder of the World,’ While You Still Can | Bloomberg
- Spies In The Field: As Farming Goes High-Tech, Espionage Threat Grows | NPR The Salt
- Surging Demand for Organic Produce Widens Supply Gap | USAgnet
- FBN Says New Marketing Tool Connects Farmers with 4,000+ Buyers | Agweb
- Denver-area marijuana companies pay more for warehouses, mainly concentrate in four places | Denverite
- National Corn Growers: Innovation Challenge to Find Next Big Thing for Corn | USAgnet
- Rural Mainstreet Climbs to Highest Level in Almost Two Years | Creighton Univ.
- Corn area growth rates are high in the former Soviet Union region (with Chart) | USDA
- Here’s how no-slaughter meat goes mainstream | Grist
- Salmon Farming Industry Handbook 2017 (PDF) | Marine Harvest
- Backyard chickens blamed for salmonella outbreaks. Do not snuggle with them, CDC says. | Denver Post
- This Farmer Wants To Give Animals A Better Life — And Death | NPR The Salt
- Where New York City's millions of square feet of farmland are hidden | Business Insider
- The Greening Of Alaska: Vertical Hydroponic Farming & Alaska Natural Organics | The Science Times
- Walmart built a giant vending machine that retrieves groceries | Business Insider
- Hong Kong's Rooftop Farms | BBC Comment: They are making a much bigger deal out of this than it is. Calorie count? Percent of food?
- Despite balanced global food commodity markets, shipping costs and import volumes will lift worldwide import costs to over $1.3 trillion this year | USAgnet
- Tart Cherry Production Expected to Fall 23 Percent | USAgnet
- Maharashtra govt announces blanket loan waiver for farmers | The Indian Express
- Butter’s comeback boosts creamery in Oregon | Capital Press
- Creating Pollinator Habitat along roadsides | The Field
- 7 Years After BP Oil Spill, Oyster Farming Takes Hold In South | NPR The Salt
- By 2025 –that’s in less than 8 years from today– 1.8 billion people will experience absolute water scarcity, and two thirds of the world will be living under water-stressed conditions. | IPS
- Sustainability/Farm Books to Read in 2017 | Sustainability Food Trust
- Toddlers Who Drink Milk Alternatives May Be Shorter; Difference is small, about a half inch at age 3 | WebMD
- Eat Your MicroGreens | USDA
- This bubble-shaped greenhouse is filled with medicinal healing plants | Inhabitat
- Starving prostate cancer with what you eat for dinner | Medical Press
- An egg a day appears to help young children grow taller | BBC
RECIPES BONUS:
Quinoa Salad Recipes | Huff-Post
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