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Commentary: Toxic pesticide drift hurts all of us

When I started farming corn and soybeans on our 320-acre family farm in Greene County, Iowa, in 1976, herbicides like dicamba were a go-to to control weeds. Dicamba is quite toxic, but it helped control broadleaf weeds in my corn crop — until it didn’t.

Tribune News Service

Agency keen on fruit quality controls

The Internal Trade Department is implementing 22 measures to manage fruit supply for this year's harvest, with production estimated to grow by 3% to 6.78 million tonnes.

Bangkok Post

Beef exports resume between Brazil and China after four-week suspension of trade

After a four-week trade suspension, Brazil has confirmed it will resume exporting beef to China.

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Mouse numbers rising in SA as strong rainfall, grain yields create 'perfect storm' for plague

The pests' numbers are on the rise in SA's Riverland, with an academic warning early intervention will be crucial to their management.

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Spruce up Your Portfolio This Spring With These 3 Agriculture Stocks

The agriculture industry’s future looks promising, given its stable demand despite market downturns and promising growth prospects. Against this backdrop, quality agriculture stocks Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), ICL Group (ICL), and Dole plc (DOLE) might be solid buys this spring to spruce up one’s portfolio. Read on….

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Mounting debt, dip in quality: As rain leaves crops damaged, Rajasthan farmers face double whammy

“It was his last harvest,” said Ramesh, referring to his relative Prithviraj Berwa, who died by suicide last week after his crop was damaged in Rajasthan’s Bundi district – in untimely rain which lashed north India over the last few days.

Newslaundry

A vegetarian of 45 years – and I'm campaigning for Scotland’s livestock sector

THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released a stark report outlining the disastrous effects we face if we don’t take…

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Farmers struggle in Argentina as drought withers their crops

The ground crackles as Guillermo Cuitino walks through dry farmland in Argentina that should be green and lush this time of year

The Independent UK

Biological defleecing method could see wool pulled off a sheep's back through corn protein injection

Researchers are pushing to solve the "number one issue in the Australian wool industry", and it all comes down to a protein from corn.

ABC News

With stakes high, Brazil meat industry dominates Lula delegation to China

More than a quarter of business leaders traveling to China with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva next week come from Brazil's booming meat industry, highlighting the high stakes for a sector reliant on Chinese demand for most of its exports.

Reuters

African smallholder farmers count the cost of fertilizer price spike

Helplessly watching her maize turn yellow as she waited for free fertilizer from the government, Zimbabwean farmer Marian Kanenungo had nothing but makeshift compost from an anthill to help save her crop - and she had low hopes of that.

Reuters

FDA gives 2nd safety nod to cultivated meat, produced without slaughtering animals

GOOD Meat, which grows chicken and other meat from animal cells in a production facility, is the second company to cross this hurdle. The move brings no-kill meat closer to sale in the U.S.

WEKU

Rice panel eyes 6% increase in output

The government's marketing-led production strategy calls for rice output of 29.3 million tonnes of paddy for the 2023/24 season.

Bangkok Post

Climate change: farmers in Ghana can't predict rainfall anymore, changing how they work

Climate change affects all spheres of life, particularly those aspects that depend on the environment. Farming communities are a case in point.

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West Australian pastoralist Michael Thompson takes fight to Commonwealth over live sheep exports phase-out

Michael Thompson runs cattle in Western Australia, but he has launched a campaign to fight the federal government's phase-out of the country's live sheep export industry.

AAP

Queensland launches agriculture emissions road map

An emissions reduction plan for Queensland's agriculture sector focuses on advancements in feed for livestock and green fertiliser options.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Over 2 trillion yen to be spent to hold down prices for households

The government has decided to use over 2 trillion yen from the fiscal 2022 reserve fund for measures to tackle inflation, according to government sources.

The Times of India

India hosts roundtable on millets to strategise production and consumption globally

India hosts roundtable on millets to strategise production and consumption globally.

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Farming family hopes to show cattle and carbon can co-exist, in bid to reduce emissions

Selling their family farm to a carbon developer, Luke and Ally Quartermaine want to be part of the solution to reduce cattle industry emissions.

ABC News

Hot chips set to return to menus as potato harvest gets underway

Wet weather and fewer potato imports are creating trying times for fish and chips shops, but growers say the start of the potato harvest across Tasmania and Victoria should ease demand.

Bangkok Post

Durian from China? Hainan gears up for first harvest of SE Asia's 'king of fruits'

China is gearing up for the harvest of its first domestic durian crop this summer after more than four years of cultivation, although it is not expected to challenge Southeast Asia's stranglehold on sales of the pungent smelling fruit.

ABC News

Plan to reduce emissions will have unintended consequences on agriculture, farmers say

Farmers are raising concerns the federal government's plan to reduce the emissions of big polluters would rely too heavily on carbon credits from agriculture.

The Guardian - UK

Country diary: Life on the farm is pregnantly poised

Long Dean, Cotswolds: The sows are weeks from farrowing, last year’s calves have been weaned ahead of the new births – and we’re anxiously waiting for rain

Zenger

The Little-Known Jackfruit Trade Is Earning Rural Ugandan Farmers Nearly 20 Percent Of Yearly Income

A Uganda-based jackfruit processing company has taken a share of the rising vegan meat market in the Netherlands.

Salon

The heinous history of Canadian sugar

The painful, shameful history of sugar cultivation and production

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