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| Framboisiers. Raspberry from old Belgian book. 'Belgique horticole' by Charles Morren Liége 1851 Tome 1st. |
This Tuesday news thread is a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture.
- Midwest farmers opting for crops other than wheat this year | AP
- Seizing agriculture’s ‘green’ future | Alan Guebert
- Quinoa: Harvesting Bolivia's 'superfood' - Harvesting the popular crop can be backbreaking work and the rewards aren't always guaranteed for Bolivia's farmers. | Aljazeera Comment: This is a great post with great photographs about Bolivia's "ancestral gift from the Andes to the world". Does anyone else remember when quinoa hit the spotlight a few years ago, there was a first response about protecting the rights of the Bolivian growers? I knew that wouldn't last long, and now their profits have dwindled because industrialized powerhouses are growing it. Once again, our lives are enriched by an indigenous contribution, but once we "take" that contribution, the indigenous community we got it from suffers. Our corporate seed providers profit nicely from seed selling. Life is not fair.
- Organic farmers sprouting up across Iowa; At first, they didn't have a market. But 'now our products sell themselves' | The Gazette Quote: "95 percent of the farmers in the Hazleton Amish community have converted to organic. “It was a life saver for us out here,” he said. “We couldn’t compete with the big conventional farmers anymore."" (Nice map of organic farms in Iowa at the end.)
- ‘The windscreen phenomenon’ - why your car is no longer covered in dead insects | The Telegraph
- By multiple measures, global food security has improved significantly since 1990 | USDA (with graph)
- A New Way Forward for American Agriculture; At Polyface Farm, Sheri Salatin, daughter-in-law of Joel Salatin and marketing director at the farm, has seen firsthand the growing interest in sustainable farming from the youngest generations. | Moyers & Co
- Fish farm with 300,000 Atlantic salmon collapses in San Juan Islands | KIRO7
- Pro Farmer U.S. 2017 Corn and Soybean Crop Estimates | Agweb
- Good Demand for Big Crops Keeping Corn Belt Afloat, But Federal Reserve Watchful | DTN
- Gain from crop diversity - Increase variety in crop rotation to boost the overall health of your field | SF
- Getting drought-relief hay to Northern Plains no easy task | AP
- Bill Gates funds millions of dollars a year for livestock development worldwide | The Scottish Farmer
- Bill Gates and Richard Branson Back Startup That Grows ‘Clean Meat’ | Bloomberg
- Raising grass-fed beef in Minnesota | SF
- Raising beef and saving birds on the Katy Prairie; Warren Ranch is managing the landscape to meet production and conservation goals | Houston Chronicle
- Geothermal vegetables from Iceland – exporting geothermal energy | Think Geoenergy
- Farm subsidies: helping the rich at the expense of the taxpayer | The Hill
- Wheat virus causes Kansas farmers to lose $76.8M | AP
- Small towns across Japan are on the verge of collapse. Whether they can do so gracefully has consequences for societies around the globe. | The Atlantic
- Small farms in England in "steep decline" | The Global Miller
- Small town Minnesota grocery store shares tips on how to remain viable | Mitchell Republic
- Rural areas hit hardest by growing doctor shortage | Herald Whig
- America's Disappearing Ancient Dairy Cows | The Atlantic
- Second-generation farmer forges a new path | JSonline Quote: "he is known for custom cuts of meat, his burger grinds and nearly 50 varieties of bratwurst."
- A Global Fish War is Coming | U.S. Naval Inst.
- Scientists Hope To Farm The Biofuel Of The Future In The Pacific Ocean | NPR
- U.S. ethanol exports are setting records this year and that is due at least in part to the efforts of the U.S. Grains Council ethanol advisory team | Agwired
- China July ethanol exports jump six-fold | Reuters
- US Ethanol Exports to Brazil Slapped with 20% Tariff | DTN
- Let’s not pretend biofuel is helping environment | The Republic
- Water buffalo cheese making in North Carolina | Charlotte Five
- US cider producers experimenting with fruits other than apples | Strait Times
- Organic milk prices plummet | VT Digger
- Locally grown fresh fruits and veggies now just a click away | q13fox Comment: This simple concept and web design looks great -- I hope it takes off!
- The Top 3 Reasons Shoppers Buy Organic Produce | USAgnet
- A salad a day keeps stroke away? | Harvard Health
- End times and doing time | The Storm Lake Times Comment: This week's bonus brilliant writing on the state of the world from small town Iowa. I love it when people tell it like it is.
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