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| Reed Harvest ~ Richard Friese ~ 1900 |
This Tuesday news thread is a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
- Global food prices monitored by FAO fell in March amid large available supplies and expectations of strong harvests. | FAO
- FAO Cereal Supply and Demand Brief April 2017 | FAO
- How to Keep Businesses (and Small Towns) Alive When Owners Retire; In Kansas, a new matchmaking service is helping transition small businesses to new hands. Could it be a model for the rest of rural America? | Yes Magazine
- Iowa water sensors show 2016 uptick in nitrates; State's sensor network is one of the largest in the nation | The Gazette
- Microbes, New Weapon Against Agricultural Pests in Africa | IPS
- Farms could slash pesticide use without losses | Guardian
- 3 Big Myths about Modern Agriculture | Scientific American
- Prospective plantings turn up few surprises | Magic Valley
- Biochar provides high-definition electron pathways in soil | EurekAlert!
- Healthy soil is the real key to feeding the world | Phys.org
- Land retirement is on the table again as Congress prepares for the new farm bill. | Successful Farming
- This Missouri (organic) study sheds light on some of the challenges of cover crops | Phys.org
- Low payout ends farming dream; A Canterbury farmer says he is being forced to sell up because of Westland Milk's low payout. (interesting story) | Stuff.co.nz
- The Race To Fish Slows Down. | NPR The Salt
- Amendment allows Greek farmers to purchase, lease state land they've cleared, cultivated for decades | Naftemporiki.gr
- Stanford study explores risk of deforestation as agriculture expands in Africa | Stanford.edu
- Prices for irrigated cropland, and ranchland in Texas, the top US cotton and beef producing state, are near record levels according to the Dallas Federal Reserve | Agrimoney
- Catastrophic Antibiotic Threat from Food | IPS
- "Palmer amaranth has spread through seed sold to farmers in the conservation program" | Reuters
- How is China feeding its population of 1.4 billion? | China Power.csis.org
- Water quality bill stays alive in Iowa Senate, but some lawmakers have reservations | DesMoines Register
- Graph of adoption of herbicide-tolerant alfalfa annual increase | USDA
- Monsanto, the world's largest supplier of vegetable seeds | Tech Insider
- Agriculture is depleting world aquifers, new satellite measurements show | MinnPost Earth-Journal
- 100-hectare urban farming district comes to Shanghai | Horti-Daily
- From cotton fields to high street racks, fashion bids to be 100% sustainable | Guardian
- KFC to Eliminate Human Medicine Antibiotics from Chicken | US Agnet
- Fish mislabeling practices and other reasons not to eat fish | The Walrus
- Photos: This is how food looks before it is harvested | IMGUR
- Farm Animal Photographer Rob MacInnis | Bored Panda
- "Superfood is a marketing term used to describe foods with supposed health benefits." | Real Clear Science
- Mariners to offer toasted grasshoppers at Safeco concession | ESPN
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