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| Moon and Cow. Alex Colville. 1963. |
This Tuesday news thread is a weekly feature here at Big Picture Agriculture. (For your daily up-to-the-minute agriculture news, go to this site's sister webpage, Agriculture News Daily.) Today's two videos included below are worth your time, in my opinion.
- Small artisanal farms might not be our environmental salvation | Grist
- As Trump and Xi Jinping meet in China, an Iowan is the bridge between them | DesMoines Register Comment: In case you missed it, I covered this item in a special post last week here.
- To Protect Pollinators, Researchers Look To Land For Answers | Indiana Public Media
- This solar-powered Dutch poultry farm specializes in 'carbon-neutral' eggs | Mother Nature Network
- Big Jump in USDA Corn Yield wasn't what farmers were hoping for | Agweek
- Get your dirt working with microbes - Fighting the carbon battle one compost bin at a time | Taos News
- What studies showed about winter grazing | Scottsbluff Star Herald
- Iowa company Sukup Manufacturing builds onsite health clinic, pays employees' insurance premiums | DesMoines Register
- Iowa State researchers look at organic corn | Iowa State Daily
- How an Oil Giant (Russia) Came to Dominate Wheat | Bloomberg
- Smelly farms may succumb to subtle science - Titanium dioxide and ultraviolet light will clean them up | The Economist
- Could indoor farming help address food shortages? | PBS Newshour
- Can these mock meat entrepreneurs fool you with a plant-based burger? | PBS Newshour
- This company wants to build a giant indoor farm next to every major city in the world | VOX
- Mail-Order CRISPR Kits Allow Absolutely Anyone to Hack DNA | Scientific American
- Britain’s Prince Charles has launched the Forgotten Foods Network to rediscover long-lost crops, fruit and vegetables | Reuters
- Will Cheap Ethanol Treatments Finally Cure Cancer?
| Top Secret Writers
Comment: This is potentially big - if drug companies don't bury it.
- Minnesota Reader's tomato plant produced whopping 357 fruits | The Bemidji Times
- Hero sheepdogs protect flock for 20 days in a Canadian wildfire | PRI
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