- Forests ‘essential’ for the future, UN agriculture chief spells out in new report | UN News
- Is the organic seal worth it, given disputes on standards? | AP
- EPA scraps detailed plan to force U.S. refiners to blend more biofuels | Reuters
- Dubai plans world’s biggest vertical farm with 130,000sqft facility | SlashGear
- The big aims behind an effort to tackle the plague of third-world cooking fires has produced only modest gains | ProPublica
- Summer Storms Unkind to Farmers in Upper Midwest Region | DTN
- Minnesota’s mainline Christian denominations face unprecedented declines, altering communities and traditions celebrated for generations | StarTribune
- Start-up producing cell-grown meat raises new funding | WSJ (paywall)
- World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates | USDA pdf
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