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Spread of Asian Stink Bug Threatens US Crops
A smelly invasive bug continues to spread across the United States, alarming both farmers and scientists. The name of this insect is a mouthful: the brown marmorated stink bug. Native to East Asia...
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Combined Fish-Vegetable Farming Catching On
The fish don’t like strangers. Ellen Perlman pours a scoop of fish food into one of four blue plastic tanks at Chesapeake Aquaponics, about half an hour from Baltimore. Picture a giant kiddi...
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The Challenge of the Aging Farmer
Agriculture economists have long warned that farmers are getting old and staying on their land longer, delaying the turnover to a younger generation. But an Ohio State University professor argues that those fears are overstated and the United States likely will have little problem replacing aging farmers as long as business is good, as it has been for the past decade.
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A visit to a hidden coca plantation
The Peruvian government says it is committed to eradicating the coca leaf, from which cocaine is made - but a walk in the jungle suggests that for cash-strapped farmers, it is not an easy choice.
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USDA Steps Up The Fight To Save Florida's Oranges
The agency wants to stop citrus greening, a diseases that threatens to destroy the industry.
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Farmers Abandoning GMO Seeds And The Reason Will Surprise You
A growing number of farmers are abandoning genetically modified seeds, but it’s not because they are ideologically opposed to the industry. Simply put, they say non-GMO crops are more productive and profitable.
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Extreme weather wreaks havoc on global food crops
Volatile weather around the world is taking farmers on a wild ride.
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Left for dead: the mysterious disease killing thousands in Central America
A sugarcane worker receives treatment for chronic kidney disease at his home in Nicaragua. Ed Kashi arrived in Nicaragua last January to shoot some photos for a local nonprofit organization. At the time, it seemed like just another two-week commission — no different from the countless others he's completed during his career as a far-flung photojournalist — but what he saw there stuck with him for much longer.
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Spiraling beef prices causing sticker shock at Texas barbecue smokers
Take a bite of beef and chew on a little supply and demand. Cooked down by three years of punishing drought, the U.S. cattle herd has dwindled to its lowest level since the 1950s, and that ongoing shrinkage has driven the average price of beef to a record $5.04 a pound, according to a the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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New threat to Brazil's breadbasket: a pesky caterpillar
Brazilian farmers are battling a voracious caterpillar that likely arrived from Asia, challenging the agricultural superpower's widely touted mastery of tropical farming
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Why Does Everyone Hate Monsanto?
Everyone seems to think that Monsanto is the face of evil. But why?
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As Dow seeks growth, new Enlist crop/chemicals seen as key
Dan Kittle has spent more than a decade waiting for this day. As the man in charge of research and development at Dow AgroSciences, the unit of Dow Chemical Co that develops agricultural seeds and pesticides, Kittle remembers the "big shock" when rival Monsanto Co unveiled a genetically modified seed in 1996 designed to be used in combination with a specific herbicide, a combination that rapidly led Monsanto to riches.
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How the meat industry killed the free market
The dark secrets behind America’s meat industry are enough to make us sick – and according to journalist Christopher Leonard, that’s only the start of it. Our health, the well-being of animals and large swaths of rural America are all under threat by America’s monopolized meat industry, Leonard says, and the full extent to which it’s taken over should be making us a lot angrier than it is.
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Inside the Milk Machine: How Modern Dairy Works
Milk has always stood for motherhood and for life. According to Greek mythology, the Milky Way was formed when Hera, the Greek goddess of marriage and womanhood, spilled milk while breast-feeding Heracles, known to the Romans as Hercules.
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Bugs Have Already Evolved Immunity to GMO Corn
Well that certainly didn't take very long. According to a study published Monday, the Western Corn Rootworm (actually a beetle larvae) has already developed a resistance to not one but two strains of generically modified corn thanks to the over-reliance and improper implementation of the crops by farmers in Iowa.
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Deadly Pig Diarrhea Is Driving Up the Cost of Bacon
A deadly virus has infected pigs in 27 states, helping cause a decline in the nation's pig herd. While Porcine Epidemic Diarrhea virus (PEDv) isn't a direct threat to humans, it is a threat to our appetite for bacon: The deaths of thousands of young pigs has sent pork futures skyrocketing as farmers continue to have difficulty containing the outbreak.
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California Drought: San Joaquin Valley sinking as farmers race to tap aquifer
So wet was the San Joaquin Valley of Steve Arthur's childhood that a single 240-foot-deep well could quench the thirst of an arid farm.
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Weird weather and war are making your food more expensive
The winter of 2014 hasn’t been kind to the cost of breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Food prices have jumped more than 5% since the start of the year, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index, which was updated this morning with new data for March. Sugar, cereals, and vegetable oils, in particular, have gotten significantly more expensive—by 8%, 5%, and 4%, respectively, since February; and nearly 15%, 9%, and 9%, respectively, since new years’ day.
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French organic winegrower fined for refusing to spray grapes with pesticide
Emmanuel Giboulot supported by green groups after refusing to spray grapes against flavescence dorée disease in Burgundy
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Face of American Farmer Changing
The average American farmer is now 58 years old, and farmers 65 and older are the fastest growing segment of the population. It’s a troubling trend signaling big changes ahead for America.
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