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America's First Beer Archive Tapping Into Hop History
Oregon State University get academic about craft beer with their new Oregon Hops & Brewing Archives.
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Japan Wants To Put A Giant Solar Farm In Space
Picture this: a giant solar power plant floating in space, gathering the sun’s energy with virtually no constraints from the weather, seasons or time of day, delivering a constant supply of green energy to Earth. Sound a little too Sci-Fi? Well, thanks to JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, we could actually witness this incredible technology in just over a decade.
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Infertility in Spanish Pigs Has Been Traced to Plastics. A Warning for Humans?
A strange catastrophe struck Spain's pig farmers in the spring of 2010. On 41 farms across the country—each home to between 800 and 3,000 pigs—many sows suddenly ceased bearing young.
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Inside 'Modern Farmer,' The One-Year-Old Agricultural Lifestyle Publication That's Turning Heads Like Crazy
"We have a rare day today — no dogs in the office," said Ann Marie Gardner, CEO and Editor-In-Chief of Hudson, New York-based upstart media property "Modern Farmer." Gardner's print-and-Web publication bills itself as one for the agricultural lifestyle, aimed at "people who care about where their food comes from."
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Vertical farms – Why waste land when you can grow food in skyscrapers?
Soil-based agriculture is so passé. Nothing short of an agricultural revolution is underway, spurred on by visionary Dr. Dickson Despommier of Columbia University. His plan is to build 30-story greenhouses in cities around the world, which will allow us to produce more food, for less money, in a healthier way, while freeing up arable land for nature.
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Porklife: building a better pig
How have the farm animals of today been shaped by centuries of domestication and selective breeding? Sujata Gupta investigates.
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North Korea Faces Worst Drought In Over A Decade
North Korea's rivers, streams and reservoirs are running dry in a prolonged drough, state media said on Monday, prompting the isolated country to mobilize some of its million-strong army to try to protect precious crops. The drought is the worst in North Korea for over a decade, state media reports have said, with some areas experiencing low rainfall levels since 1961.
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This Is Where Rice Comes From
Rice is a staple food for more than one-half the world’s population, but for many of its consumers, its origin is distant and mysterious. Last year, Scott Gable, a photographer who has long been interested in the industrialization of food production, decided to satiate his own curiosity by discovering the people...
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The Rise of the ‘Super Weed’ Around the World
"Super weeds" are becoming increasingly common. According to the Weed Science Society of America, these herbicide-resistant weeds were first reported in the 1950s - soon after farmers began using the first major synthetic herbicides - and are on the rise.
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Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe tells white farmers 'to go'
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has called on the country's remaining white farmers to cede land to black people. "We say no to whites owning our land and they should go," Mr Mugabe told his supporters at a rally. The white farmers union said it was regrettable that racial tensions were flaring up again.
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Oklahoma drought kindles spectre of 1930s 'Dust Bowl'
A menacing cloud of dust swirling above a parched field in Oklahoma is a disturbing reminder of the power of drought.
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I learnt to survive like an 11th-century farmer
When my life came crashing down I took shelter on my farm, surviving with 11th-century tools like the sickle and scythe
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Second Silent Spring? Bird Declines Linked to Popular Pesticides
A popular class of insecticides has been linked to bird die-offs-a finding that parallels Rachel Carson's concerns back in 1962.
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Lettuce See the Future: Japanese Farmer Builds High-Tech Indoor Veggie Factory
Humans have spent the last 10,000 years mastering agriculture. But a freak summer storm or bad drought can still mar many a well-planted harvest. Not anymore, says Japanese plant physiologist Shigeharu Shimamura, who has moved industrial-scale farming under the roof.
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Study of Organic Crops Finds Fewer Pesticides and More Antioxidants
Adding fuel to the debates over the merits of organic food, a comprehensive review of earlier studies found substantially higher levels of antioxidants and lower levels of pesticides in organic fruits, vegetables and grains compared with conventionally grown produce.
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Laboratory-grown beef: meat without the murder, but would you eat it?
Growing meat in labs could cut hunger, tackle climate change and end animal slaughter, but creator Professor Mark Post says the biggest beef will be convincing consumers
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Better use of world’s existing cropland could feed 3 billion more people: study
The world’s existing cropland could feed at least 3 billion extra people if it were used more efficiently, a new study has found, showing that the large increases in population expected in the next three decades need not result in widespread hunger.
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The Hidden Dangers of Lead in Urban Gardens
When Ryan Kuck’s young twins both tested positive for elevated lead levels in their blood he was worried — but not surprised. A longtime urban gardener in Philadelphia, Kuck regularly encounters problems caused by the rampant lead contamination of his city’s soil. But this time, as a parent, it was different.
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Watch a cocoa farmer try chocolate for the first time
N'Da Alphonse grows cocoa in Ivory Coast. He harvests the pods, removes the pulp-covered beans, and dries them before selling them to brokers. He'd never seen or tasted the food made from his beans, until a Dutch TV show brought him a sample, as part of a story on class divisions and the global food trade.
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Mishak Henner’s Apocalyptic Photos Show How Factory Farming is Destroying The American Landscape
The images, discovered by Henner while researching satellite photographs of oil fields, look like post-apocalyptic wastelands.
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