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This Tuesday news thread is a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
- Net income for the nation’s top 100 ag co-ops rose 14% in 2015, says new USDA report. | Wallaces Farmer
- High-tech agriculture can prevent oncoming global water wars | The Conversation
- Agroecology Booming in Argentina | IPS
- How many farmers are actually planting cover crops? | Agweb
- German Agriculture Minister Says 'Nein' to calling this food Meatless 'Meatballs' | NPR
- The "chickenization" of beef | High Country News
- 2017 launched as the 'Year of Sustainable Grassland' in Ireland | Farmers Journal
- Scottish salmon farming ‘fighting a losing battle’ against sea lice | Press and Journal UK
- Costco's future chicken plant in Nebraska raises environmental concerns | Journal Star
- Western Massachusetts farm family lives by values of yesterday, using draft horses. | NPR
- Congress' budget patch averts national farm loan crisis | LA Times
- How the US Government Subsidizes Obesity | IPS
- The market for agricultural robots is developing at a rapid pace | USAgnet
- What’s Happening to the Bees and Butterflies? | New York Review of Books
- New wood technology may offer hope for struggling timber | Phys.org
- The 99 best things that happened in 2016 (includes a number of Ag-related) | Quartz
- Research scientists funded by Syngenta struggle with issues. | NYTs
- The Vertical Farm | The New Yorker
- An Aquaculture farm in Selbyville, Delaware | Coastal Point
- In 2017, learn to eat sustainably (with 3 recipes) | Adirondack Daily Enterprise
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