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| Cattle On The Island Of Saltholm ~ Theodor Philipsen ~ 1890 |
This Tuesday news thread is a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
- FAO Food Price Index dips again in April; Updated forecasts point to weakening trade volumes and robust supply conditions for wheat and maize | FAO
- Green Plains, the country’s second-largest ethanol producer, bought two livestock feedlots from ag giant Cargill, more than doubling its cattle-feeding capacity and becoming the fourth-largest cattle feeder in the nation. | Omaha World-Herald
- Why It’s Time to Stop Punishing Our Soils with Fertilizers; Researcher Rick Haney talks about the folly of pursuing ever-greater crop yields using fertilizers and other chemicals and how farmland can by restored through natural methods. | YaleE360
- Paul Hawken's list of ways to reverse climate change | MinnPost Note: This includes a multitude of food-farming related items.
- Researchers seek better ways to farm popular Pacific fish | Phys.org
- A major new report on biofuels in Australia paints a bleak picture for the industry | Biofuels International Note: The bottom line is that the Australian consumer doesn't want the biofuel product. In the U.S., the mandates are everything to the industry for this political product.
- Avocado prices are soaring | The Packer
- Monsanto’s NemaStrike Technology approved by EPA | Southwest Farm Press
- ChemChina clinches landmark $43 billion takeover of Syngenta | Reuters
- Cellular agriculture: Growing meat in a lab setting | SanFrancisco Chronicle
- Huge crops, record storage signaling more woes for grain merchants | Reuters
- Bunge profit dives as grain glut hits margins; shares drop | Reuters
- The future of food production in 12 charts | Ensia
- CSU’s plans for on-campus slaughterhouse draw criticism from sustainability advocates; JBS to donate $7.5 million for construction. | Denver Post
- The Slow Growth Chicken Movement, Redbro from Perdue | NYTs
- Economics and Bad Weather Amplify Africa’s Food Crisis; Rising inflation, foreign-exchange shortages raise prices of staples even in regions unaffected by war | WSJ
- Apple-Picking Robot Prepares to Compete for Farm Jobs | Technology Review
- Strawberry scientist is sued over the fruits of his research | Phys.org
- Chart: Avocado imports play a significant role in meeting growing U.S. demand | USDA
- The story of how Seaboard Triumph Food's new meat processing plant finds workers in Sioux City, Iowa | Sioux City Journal
- Case Farms built its business by recruiting immigrant workers from Guatemala, who endure conditions few Americans would put up with. | The New Yorker
- Damage to U.S. Crops Won't End the Global Wheat Glut | Bloomberg
- World Can't Get Enough Soy, Top Growers Ship at Record Pace | Bloomberg
- Here comes synthetic cannabis | Ozy
- Book: The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel review – a paean to old-fashioned farming | The Guardian
- How long can a seed stay alive and why? | Parade Magazine
- Aspirin May Prevent Cancer from Spreading | Sci-Am
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