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Tuesday informational news links "with a holistic view" are a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
ELECTION:
Trump's Geographical Landslide | MishTalk
Rural America Roars | DTN
Trump’s Agricultural Advisory Committee | Ohio's Country Journal
Michael Torrey leading Trump agriculture transition effort | Politico
Weed is now legal in 8 states (California, Massachusetts, Maine, and Nevada have just been added) | Daily Dot
Oklahoma Voters Reject Right to Farm Amendment | usagnet
Massachusetts Votes to Ban Battery Cages, Crates | usagnet
Soda Taxes Won Big | Mother Jones
UP TOP:
What is crop insurance, really? | Center for Rural Affairs
Another record-breaking harvest | World-Grain
Pan Hao has never worked on a farm, but that hasn’t stopped him from becoming one of China's foremost husbandry experts. | Sixth Tone
Could reinvention solve our shopping addiction? | BBC
Stranded cows rescued after becoming trapped in NZ earthquake | twitter
TRENDS AND INNOVATION:
Rabobank: Microbial Market Set to Double in Size | usagnet
The percentage of people living in extreme poverty around the world has fallen by more than half over the past three decades. But polls show that most people are not only ignorant of this fact, but believe that poverty has increased. | VOX
Moving Toward an Agricultural Post-Scarcity Future | Business Insider
The Tropical Oil Crops Revolution – A More Sustainable Future? | World Financial Review
Almond growers plant 14.5 million new trees despite price slide | CapitalPress
Hass Avocado Board sets new strategic plan | The Packer
Quest to map Africa’s soil micro biome begins; Sub-Saharan project could one day help ecosystems to resist climate change and improve agriculture. | Nature
Growing Dates and apricots in the Arava Desert | JPost
The double wonder of worms; research shows works can produce clean compost and animal feed | EurekAlert!
Functional Flours Market Worth $78 Billion by 2022 | usagnet
CONSERVATION, ORGANIC, GARDENING, WATER:
Rehabilitating drylands key to global food security | UN News Center
MANAGING WATER: A new farmer and a very old acequia | National Young Farmer's Coalition
EPA Proposes No Food Tolerances for Chlorpyrifos | Farm Journal
Brazil’s Cerrado could sidestep conversion for agriculture; The Climate and Land Use Alliance outlines a strategy to harmonize big agriculture, community farming and conservation could save the tropical grasslands of Brazil. | Mongabay
Why You Should Buy an Organic Turkey | Consumer Reports
USDA Announces $331 Million Investment for Clean Water Infrastructure in Rural Communities; Nearly Half of Grant Funds to Assist Persistently Poor StrikeForce Counties | USDA
EU will have to import cow dung to meet renewables targets, study warns | EurActiv
AG ECONOMICS, FARMING, CROPS, TRADE:
Crop Production Report; Corn Production Up 1 Percent from October Forecast; Soybean Production Up 2 Percent;
Cotton Production Up 1 Percent; Orange Production Up 2 Percent | USDA
Grain elevators and ethanol plants across the Midwest are shortening dump hours because they are running short of space for corn. Lines are long and corn piles are popping up throughout the Midwest. | DTN
Corn Nears Month-Long Low After USDA Raises Harvest Estimate | usagnet
Ottawa Offering Dairy Sector $350 Million to Soften Impact from Canada-EU Trade Deal (though dairy farmers say that's not enough) | Real Agriculture
USDA Awards $4.3 Million to Ensure Access to Needed Veterinary Services in Rural Communities | USDA
FARMLAND:
US farmland prices to suffer 20% slump, MetLife warns | Agrimoney
Midwest Farm Values Down in 3rd Quarter | Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Brazilian farmland market slides into 'negative returns' | Agrimoney
Record Washington farm values during drought a puzzle | CapitalPress
Cash Rent as a Percent of Farmland Price | Farmdoc Daily
Ongoing weakness in the District’s farm economy in the quarter caused a more significant decline in farmland values. The value of each type of farmland—nonirrigated cropland, irrigated cropland and ranchland—fell more than 6 percent from a year ago. The decrease in the third quarter was the sharpest year-over-year reduction in the value of each type of farmland throughout the District since the mid-1980s. | Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
CLIMATE CHANGE:
Agriculture victim of and solution to climate change | Phys.org
BIOFUELS:
Ethanol is bad for the economy and the environment | Tyler Morning Telegraph
FIBER:
Primark among first in line for European sustainable clothing push | Business Green
Eight ways to make your wardrobe more sustainable (I liked the substitute for dry cleaning!) | VOGUE
NEW BOOK:
Organic Futures: Struggling for Sustainability on the Small Farm (Yale Agrarian Studies Series) | Amazon
COLORADO CORNER:
I found the above tidy, small foil packet lying on my kitchen counter last week. Turned out, it belonged to our son, and it is a Colorado product that he thinks highly of.
HEALTH, FOOD, NUTRITION:
Taking the pulse of a burgeoning trend at the supermarket (pulses) | ABQ Journal
Freeze-drying fruit is tops for retaining nutrients | Food Navigator
Disruption: Soylent Says It Knows Why It Is Making It's Customers Poop and Puke (Flour made from algae) | Climateer Investing
BONUS:
Commercial Dryland Food Forest in Australia (Permaculture) VIDEO
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