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This Tuesday news thread is a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
- Trump Budget Would Erase $38 Billion in Farm Supports | AgWeb
- In California, millions of dollars' worth of almonds, walnuts, and pistachios are disappearing. Farmers are perplexed, the cops are confused, and the crooks are getting richer. | Outside
- There Aren't Enough Slaughterhouses to Support the Farm-to-Table Economy | Bloomberg
- Company Looks to Put Peoria on the Textile Map | Market to Market
- Double-Digit Jumps in Farmland Sales | AgWeb
- 'Plant Factories' Churn Out Clean Food in China’s Dirty Cities | Bloomberg
- Canadian Trends in Agriculture | Pig Site
- Some 1.6m acres of Saskatchewan to go unseeded | Agrimoney
- Organic farming expert John Mesko talks about how, despite barriers, it's still a growth industry | Star Tribune
- U.S. Organic Ag Sector Continues to Grow | US Agnet
- Corn seed treatment insecticides pose risks to honey bees, yield benefits elusive | Purdue Univ.
- American beekeepers lost 33 percent of bees in 2016-17 | Science Daily
- Omaha-based Gavilon still faces an oversupply of grain from record 2016 harvest | Omaha World-Herald
- IGC slashes grain stocks forecast, citing industrial demand for corn | Agrimoney
- The United States exported 6.9 million tonnes of DDGS between September 2016 and March 2017, up 6% from the prior year-over-year period. | World-Grain
- Nine of the World's Biggest Packaged Food Companies Have Launched Venture Capital Units | Climateer Investing
- Chairman of Brazilian Meatpacker JBS, Joesley Batista, Resigns After Revelations of Bribes | WSJ
- Trimble to Acquire German Precision Ag Company | US Agnet
- The pros and cons of commercial farming models in Africa | The Conversation
- Why are so many young Greeks turning to farming? | Aljazeera
- The world is running out of sand | New Yorker
- Charting China's Competitive Eaters | Bloomberg
- Calls to reform food system: 'Factory farming belongs in a museum' | The Guardian
- What ag schools really need to teach | Food Politics
- Which fabrics are most sustainable? | Tree Hugger
- Meat Substitutes: Soy, Mealworms, and Crickets | Conversable Economist
- Catnip Repels Mosquitoes More Effectively Than DEET | Science Daily
- Western Innovator: Duck eggs fill market niche | Capital Press
- Pediatricians Are Taking a Harder Line on Babies Drinking Fruit Juice | NY Mag
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