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The Family Peach Farm That Became A Symbol Of The Food Revolution
Heirloom peach trees, and an essay about them, turned one California farm into a landmark of local food. It's now the scene of another unconventional choice: a daughter's return to take the helm.
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The rise and fall of orange juice
Despite the advice of dietitians, many of us still start the day with a glass of orange juice. Yet orange juice, and in fact the entire citrus growing industry, is in serious peril. Citrus greening disease wiped out the citrus industry in Asia and is damaging it in the US, and Australia could be next warns Professor David Mabberley.
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For The Love Of Pork: Antibiotic Use On Farms Skyrockets Worldwide
For the first time, scientists have estimated the amount of antibiotics pigs, chickens and cows consume globally — and how fast consumption is growing. Which country uses the most drugs on farms?
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We’re treating soil like dirt. It’s a fatal mistake, because all human life depends on it
Imagine a wonderful world, a planet on which there was no threat of climate breakdown, no loss of freshwater, no antibiotic resistance, no obesity crisis, no terrorism, no war. Surely, then, we would be out of major danger? Sorry. Even if everything else were miraculously fixed, we’re finished if we don’t address an issue considered so marginal and irrelevant that you can go for months without seeing it in a newspaper.
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Meet The Cool Beans Designed To Beat Climate Change
A planet that is warming at extraordinary speed may require extraordinary new food crops. The latest great agricultural hope is beans that can thrive in temperatures that cripple most conventional beans. They're now growing in test plots of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture, or CIAT, in Colombia. Many of these "heat-beater" beans resulted from a unique marriage, 20 years ago, of tradition and technology. The matchmaker was a Colombian scientist named Alvaro Mejia-Jimenez.
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The Invention of the Baby Carrot
Baby carrots are just regular carrots cut up and polished down. They're also the biggest thing to happen to carrots since orange. How did it happen? The year is 1986, and you operate one of the largest carrot farms and processing plants in California. The weather is beautiful, your farm is vast, and business is good. Life is perfect except for one thing: every day, you need to throw out tons of the vegetables you worked so hard to grow, because they just aren’t pretty enough to sell.
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How Growers Gamed California’s Drought
Consuming 80 percent of California’s developed water but accounting for only 2 percent of the state’s GDP, agriculture thrives while everyone else is parched.
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Fateful Harvest: Why Brazil has a big appetite for risky pesticides
In rising agricultural superpower Brazil, risky pesticides – including paraquat – face lax regulation. And in the rural northeast, rampant use has led to sickness and violence.
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Denmark’s Drug-Free Pigs
American farmers don’t need all those antibiotics.
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Ohio Governor Signs New Rules to Help Reduce Lake Erie Algae
Ohio's governor has put in place new rules that should help cut down on the pollutants feeding the algae in Lake Erie.
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Seoul to adopt urban agriculture by introducing ‘vertical farms’
Seoul City Hall is planning to introduce “vertical farms.” The farms would be three stories high, with vegetables and crops grown on the second and third floors, while the first floor would serve as a classroom for teaching agriculture, city officials said Tuesday. The farms will be computer controlled to provide the right light, temperature and humidity, and check carbon dioxide levels. The western district of Yangcheon will be home to the first farms.
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How Syrians Saved an Ancient Seedbank From Civil War
When civil war broke out in Syria, Ahmed Amri immediately thought about seeds. Specifically, 141,000 packets of them sitting in cold storage 19 miles south of Aleppo...
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Turning Ethiopia's Desert Green
A generation ago Ethiopia's Tigray province was stricken by a famine that shocked the world. Now ancient techniques are being used to change it beyond recognition.
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Bees may get hooked on nicotine-linked pesticides
Bees may be getting hooked on nectar laced with widely used nicotine-related chemicals in pesticides they cannot even taste, in the same way humans are addicted to cigarettes.
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Farmers Unable to Repair Tractors Because Copyright: Never a Side Effect, But Core Intention of Law
Stories are starting to appear about farmers unable to repair tractors and car aficionados unable to tinker with cars because of copyright legislation. That's not a side effect. It was the whole idea of the law.
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Local Food Systems: A Green Way of Life, or a Luxury Only for Elites?
While many celebrate salad greens, the local food movement is cultivating exclusivity and becoming less and less budget friendly.
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All the GMOs Approved In the U.S.
See all the GMOs you may already be eating.
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California’s Drought Could Upend America’s Entire Food System
California's farmers literally feed the country. If we want to talk about their water problems, we also need to talk about our food problems.
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U.S. approves $330 million for bird flu outbreak in poultry
The federal Office of Management and Budget has granted U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack the authority to transfer an additional $330 million in emergency funds for the agency's handling of the quickly spreading avian influenza outbreak,
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Organic Weed Control with Jean-Martin Fortier
Farming with organic weed control requires a bit more attention at crucial times in the growing season, but it doesn't have to mean hours of hand-weeding.
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