- Can Dirt Save the Earth? Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land. (NYTs)
- Vanishing Rio Grande puts pressure on San Luis Valley farmers during extreme drought. Widening water woes reveal the precariousness of life in the southwestern United States (Denver Post)
- Pollination service fees now roughly equal to honey sales as a share of revenue for beekeepers (USDA)
- Overpumping of Central Valley groundwater has side effect: too much arsenic (San Francisco Chronicle)
- The White House Continues To Drive The Outlook For Biofuels Producers (Seeking Alpha)
- Stanford Podcast: Roz Naylor: Changing how — and what — the world eats. The challenge of feeding a growing planet is on the table as food security expert Roz Naylor and host Russ Altman discuss the rapidly changing landscape of agriculture.