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| An Anxious Moment ~ Briton Riviere ~ 1878 |
This Tuesday news thread is a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
- A Missourian Returns Home to Report on Why His Home State Voted for Trump | The Guardian
- The Essential Wendell Berry review – how America’s farmers betrayed the land | The Guardian
- Grain traders prepping fish oil substitutes for aquaculture, health fads | Reuters
- An English Sheep Farmer’s View of Rural America | NYTs
- For Many Farmers, Retirement Is a Source of Dread | NYTs
- China Backs Off of Importing U.S. Ethanol, DDGS Products | Agweb
- Icahn Lobbying Trump Sparks Civil War in U.S. Ethanol Sector | Agweb
- Wheat and maize prices drive FAO Food Price Index higher | World-Grain
- Why farmers and ranchers think the EPA Clean Water Rule goes too far | The Conversation
- The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecast U.S. wheat production in 2017 at 1.837 billion bushels, down 20% from 2016. | World-Grain
- U.S. Agricultural Production Systems of the Future: What Research is Needed Now? | USDA Blog
- Brazil's Agro+ Plan | Successful Farming
- Modern biological products do what? | Agweb
- Planting Green to Keep Soil Life Active | Hay & Forage
- Trends in World Corn Production | Agriculture Economic Insights
- Nationally, we are seeing extreme to exceptional (D3 to D4) drought conditions fall to their lowest point in more than 6 years. | US Agnet Have you looked at the Drought Monitor map lately? (tab above)
- New TB drug candidates developed from soil bacteria | Science Daily
- Room for greenhouse development in Newfoundland | HortiDaily
- The rise of biodynamic farming: a return to 'the way farmers farmed for millennia' | The Guardian
- Rich dyes flow from a small college garden | Black Mountain News
PODCASTS:
- The Secret (Smart) Life of Bees | Science Friday (17 minutes)
- FRED KIRSCHENMANN – author Cultivating an Ecological Conscience | Tributaries Radio (30 minutes) (Rerun, but good - as Kirschenmann always is.)
THIS WEEK'S VIDEO:
Agriculture: The Ancient Ways, Today, & Tomorrow - California Documentary
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