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Tuesday informational news links "with a holistic view" are a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
UP TOP:
Indian farmers fight against climate change using trees as a weapon | The Guardian
Vitamin A rice now a reality; Field trial shows high promise, people may get it by 2018 | The Daily Star
Like an AirBNB for Gardens: We connect people to land and garden services | ALFREA
The tiresome discussion of initial GMO expectations (in response to latest NYTs Piece) | Control Freaks (This NYTs piece has created much rumbling and is still at the top of the most popular reads at the NYTs. If the author, Hakim, was smart, he'd have focused on what government policy is driving overproduction, demand for GMO seed systems. But he never even mentions the words ethanol, biodiesel, RFS, or mandate. Unbelievable.)
He keeps cover cropping simple | Western Farmer Stockman
The world's biggest meat producer is planning to test out robot butchers | Business Insider
An interdisciplinary team of seven that includes industrial designers, architects, and agronomists, Team BioNurse has designed a soil restoration mechanism that mimics the Yareta plant, a so-called “nurse” plant found in the harsh environment of the Andes. | Earth Island Journal
TRENDS AND INNOVATION:
Agricultural Tech Investment Rises to Record $25 Billion | Bloomberg
Investors are piling into the insect meal sector, with at least $40m of venture capital recently invested in new companies. | Agrimoney
Amazon wants to open 20 brick-and-mortar grocery stores over the next two years, and the online retailer believes the US market has room for up to 2,000 of its Amazon Fresh-branded grocery stores over the next decade. | Business Insider
Arctic Agriculture: Farming Opportunities on the Horizon | Arctic Deeply
Campbell's Soup Co. has become the sole investor of a San Francisco-based company that combines nutrition, technology and food delivery into one bundle. | BizJournals
Steiner is the second German nursery that is now able to grow tomatoes year-round. | HortiDaily
Assam herbs ripe for nutraceutical and functional food development | NUTRA ingredients-asia
Los Angeles hosts first-ever wine and bug pairing | Treehugger
CONSERVATION, ORGANIC, GARDENING, WATER:
World wildlife 'falls by 58% in 40 years' (Largely due to agriculture) | BBC
Nitrate reduction and drainage with Iowa State's Matt Helmers; Keep an eye out for the new practice – drainage water recycling. | Corn and Soybean Digest
USDA Invests $1.7 Billion to Protect Sensitive Agricultural Lands through Conservation Reserve Program | USDA
ACEP helps private landowners, land trusts, and other entities preserve working farms and ranches and restore, protect, and enhance wetlands and grasslands through long-term easements. | NSAC
AG ECONOMICS, FARMING, CROPS, TRADE:
Rural Mainstreet Index Plummets to Lowest Level Since Recession: Negative Cash Flows for One of Five Grain Farmers | Mainstreet Economy
"Grains inventories… in China could reach 200m tonnes," a total which, while not unprecedented, has not been seen since the 1990s. | Agrimoney
Cuba’s Fish Farming Industry Seeks to Double Output by 2030 | IPS
Mexico: Agricultural exports increase | Fresh Plaza
JBS SA shares plummeted nearly 23%, on the news that an ambitious restructure has been scrapped, after opposition from the Brazilian government | Agrimoney
Florida’s nearly $11 billion citrus industry faces a growing danger from disease. A tree-killing bacteria is wiping out the state’s famous orange groves. Ninety percent are infected, and next year’s orange harvest could be one of the lowest on record. | CBS News
Marine Aquaculture Strategic Plan FY 2016-2020 | NOAA Fisheries doc
Why you should care about ‘Big Ag’ companies getting bigger | Harvest Public Media
More than 95 per cent of this season’s Australian cotton crop will contain the new GM cotton technology, Bollgard 3. | Queensland Country Life
If Monsanto Loses Its Name, What Will Its Haters Have Left to Hate? | WSJ
USDA Provides $3.6 Billion for Electric Projects in 31 States | USAgnet
2016 will be remembered as a wet year in the Canadian Prairies, and perhaps a "great flood" year | DTN
Falling prices, borrowing binge haunt Midwest 'go-go farmers' | Reuters
The citrus industry is on track to open a dedicated research center near the University of California-Riverside next year to tackle the deadly tree disease huanglongbing. | Capital Press
Walmart Vs. Food Co-ops | Huff-Post
FARMLAND:
Farmland Holding Its Own | DTN
The value of Central Valley farmland is falling. Here’s why. | Sacramento Bee
BIOFUELS:
Siouxland Ethanol receives $500,000 for upgrades | Sioux City Journal
NEW BOOK:
The Tropical Oil Crop Revolution; Food, Feed, Fuel, and Forests. By Derek Byerlee, Walter P. Falcon, and Rosamond L. Naylor (Note that Walter Falcon is well-known to this blog, with his annual Iowa farmers almanac) | Oxford Univ. Press
COLORADO CORNER:
National USDA Official Highlights Biofuels Investments in Colorado | The Prowers Journal
HEALTH, FOOD, NUTRITION:
Supplements aren't held to the same standards as FDA-approved drugs. Evidence indicates that few are effective, many are useless, and others may be harmful. | Harvard Health
Vitamin Chart | Harvard Health
Organic Foods That Aren’t Worth Organic Prices | Philly.com
Arby's Offering Venison Sandwiches at Certain Locations | USAgnet
Food Labeling Claims | NSAC
Anthony Bourdain explains why, even after touring 80 countries, his favorite destination will always be Japan | Business Insider
BONUS:
Film trailer from Dreaming Monk Productions. This is about an African project dealing with soil depletion and successful sorghum growing.
Nyogon: together collaborative plant-breeding trailer from Dreaming Monk Productions on Vimeo.
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