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| Jose Malhoa ~ 1898 ~ The Bakers, A Market in Figueiró |
This Tuesday news thread is a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
- The Company Making Egg Whites Without Hens | Medium
- UN experts denounce 'myth' pesticides are necessary to feed the world | The Guardian
- Million-dollar farms accounted for over half of production in 2015 | USDA (chart)
- As grasslands shrink, a rural war rages over mowing ditches; But cutting the grass could deplete much-needed wildlife habitat, Minnesota says. | Star-Tribune
- Tensions Grow as Solar Projects Supplant Farmland | WSJ
- House Ag Subcommittee Examines Conservation Issues | Farm Policy News
- Expanded land-idling measures proposed for new farm bill | World-Grain
- The Ongoing Debate over Farmland Taxation | Farmdocdaily Includes helpful maps. (Nebraska high in Midwest)
- Top 8 Richest Farmers in the World | Luxatic
- Scientists create ‘designer yeast’ in major step toward synthetic life | Wash-Post
- Raped, beaten, exploited: the 21st-century slavery propping up Sicilian farming | The Guardian
- Israeli agriculture conquers the desert | The Sagamore
- Northern Ontario and Cultivating the Great Claybelt | Timmins Press
- Organic farming matters - just not in the way you think | The Conversation
- The farming revolution that aims to bring free-range milk to Britain | The Guardian
- Are indoor farms the next step in the evolution of agriculture? | Japan Times
- A solar-powered greenhouse in a So. Australia waterless desert | Treehugger
- Rural America, The New Inner City | Huff-Post
- General Mills boosts eco-friendly grain Kernza | Phys.org
- In Praise of Quinoa | The Economist
- Blueberry concentrate improves brain function in older people | Medical Press
INTERESTING EMIGRATION MAPS:
World Mapper | The Big Picture
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One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts
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