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GM flies 'could save crops'
A type of genetically engineered fly which eventually kills itself off could be an effective method of pest control, according to new research.
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Tire makers race to turn dandelions into rubber
Dutch biologist Ingrid van der Meer often meets with disbelief when she talks about her work on dandelions and how it could secure the future of road transport.
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Farm Antibiotics May Be Linked to Food Allergies
Girl's severe reaction traced to streptomycin-treated blueberries
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Ohio State Scientists Study Runoff to Stop Toxic Algae in the Great Lakes
How can the great lakes recover from agricultural runoff and toxic algae blooms? Yesterday, the EPA announced it will distribute $12 million to educate farmers and improve water quality in the region.
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Farmer Eschews Engines for Real Horse Power
Farming with Draft Horses.
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New Generation of GM Crops Puts Agriculture in a 'Crisis Situation'
With the first of a new generation of genetically engineered crops ready to hit the market, the battle lines are being drawn. These crops and others like them may force a showdown between conflicting approaches to farming: one that depends on chemicals to fight weeds, and another that embraces ecology's lessons.
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16-Year-Old Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair 2014 With World-Changing Crop Yield Breakthrough
Irish teenagers Ciara Judge, Émer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow, all 16, have won the Google Science Fair 2014. Their project, Combating the Global Food Crisis, aims to provide a solution to low crop yields by pairing a nitrogen-fixing bacteria that naturally occurs in the soil with cereal crops it does not normally associate with, such as barley and oats.
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GMO Wheat Investigation Closed, But Another One Opens
Investigators from the U.S. Department of Agriculture say they cannot figure out how genetically modified wheat got into an Oregon field. Now GM wheat has been found growing in Montana, too.
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Islamic State Uses Grain to Tighten Grip in Iraq
For Salah Paulis, it came down to a choice between his faith and his crop.A wheat farmer from outside Mosul, Paulis and his family fled the militant group Islamic State.
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Analysis: Further milk price cuts to spark farmer protests
Dairy farmers will soon be out blockading milk processing plants and supermarket depots following the latest round of milk price cuts.
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Not a drop (of tap water) to drink in San Lucas, California
San Lucas is one of many small towns in Central California where the community’s water has been polluted by agriculture
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Ebola threatens chocolate
Ebola is threatening much of the world’s chocolate supply. Ivory Coast, the world’s largest producer of cacao, the raw ingredient in M&M’s, Butterfingers and Snickers Bars, has shut down its borders with Liberia and Guinea, putting a major crimp on the workforce needed to pick the beans that end up in chocolate bars and other treats just as the harvest season begins.
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The annual Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh-Off sets a North American record
You know we're close to Halloween when you start hearing about the giant pumpkins in Half Moon Bay. The annual weigh-off of the gigantic gourds kicks off the Half Moon Bay Art and Pumpkin Festival.
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You're Eating Too Many Avocados
The avocado, that green, slimy, deliciously fatty fruit, the one chiefly responsible for bringing guacamole to humanity—and in recent years earning the rare and elusive title of a super food—is a botanical anomaly that shouldn’t exist. It should have disappeared long ago.
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Here's what 9,000 years of breeding has done to corn, peaches, and other crops
Fruits and vegetables have changed a lot since the onset of agriculture 10,000 years ago, as generation after generation of farmers artificially bred crops to select for more desirable traits like size and taste.
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Humble spud poised to launch a world food revolution
In a small army field-hut Dr Arjen de Vos shows off his irrigation machine with pride. Pipes lead out to several acres of muddy field, where only a few stragglers from the autumn harvest of potatoes, salads, carrots and onions are left. The tubes are lined with copper to stop corrosion because – in a move that defies everything we think we know about farming – de Vos is watering his plants with diluted sea water.
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Ottawa threatens tariffs against U.S. ketchup, chocolate, wine
Canada is threatening to slap tariffs on dozens of products imported from the U.S., including ketchup, chocolate and wine, after the World Trade Organization ruled for the third time that its meat-labelling laws discriminate against Canadian and Mexican livestock.
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The Urban Farm That Is Soil-Free and Uses Virtually No Water
Less traditional farming methods have the potential to transform our food sources, but can they be affordable?
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Gay Breeding Bull Shows No Interest In Opposite Sex, Faces Slaughterhouse
Benjy, a gay pedigree Charolais breeding bull, shows no interest in mating same sex peers at the farm in County Mayo, Ireland. The bull was facing slaughter after the owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, found none of the female cows were carrying calves.
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McDonald's Refuses To Buy GM Potatoes For Its Fries
An unusual stand for the global burger champ: no genetically modified potatoes, not even from the company's biggest potato supplier.
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