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Tanzania's tomato harvest goes to waste: solar-powered cold storage could be a sustainable solution

Feeding Africa’s growing population is a big development challenge for governments, policy makers and agriculture experts. Adding to the challenge is the high level of food loss and waste that most small-scale farmers experience.

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Farmers face a higher risk of suicide. The Texas Agriculture Department wants $500,000 a year to change that.

The department’s helpline is less than a year old. But advocates hope state lawmakers fully fund it as farmers and ranchers continue to face hard economic times and isolation.

The Texas Tribune

Animals Farmed: salmon farm disease, chicken tariffs in Africa and the return of China’s wildlife farms

Welcome to our monthly roundup of the biggest issues in farming and food production, with must-read reports from around the web

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Soaring egg prices put pressure on consumers and businesses

Chickens may not be able to fly very far, but the price of eggs is soaring

The Independent UK

Agriculture among 180,000 fee-free TAFE courses offered as part of government plan to address labour shortages

This year, 180,000 fee-free TAFE places are on offer for courses related to industries with recognised skills shortages such as agriculture.

ABC News

Grain harvest expected to break Frankland River farm's records despite late finish

With thousands of tonnes of grain expected to be harvested, Frankland River farmer Grant Bernhardt is all smiles after his first year of farming in Western Australia.

ABC News

Fermanagh County show to move to new Castle Irvine home

The agricultural show returns on 11th and 12th August this year

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English farmers turning to cultivating nuts as climate heats

Hazelnut and walnut trees among cultivars becoming commercially viable

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Who wants to buy a grape farm with no income? Flooded farmers find soggy grapes a tough sell

Winegrape growers are preparing for a delayed and diluted vintage due to heavy rains and flooding, which has destroyed some crops and left others infected with downy mildew.

ABC News

Egg prices soar by 85% and shoppers warned over milk shortages as cost of living crisis bites

The price of eggs has risen by an eye-watering 85 percent in a year, and fears are also mounting over a milk shortage as the prices paid to farmers continues to fall even further

Daily Mirror

‘Holy grail’ wheat gene discovery could feed our overheated world

Harvests that form a vital element of the diets of 4.5 billion people are being devastated by global heating. Now research has found a key to create a heat-resistant variety

The Guardian - UK

Overtime law was supposed to help these California workers. Many make less money now

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As a 2016 California law requiring agricultural employers to pay overtime continues to roll out in 2023, farmworkers and employers say the policy is costing them money.

Tribune News Service

CBH breaks receival records, with millions of tonnes to come as WA grain growers top last year's harvest

WA's main grain handler, the CBH Group, breaks receival record with millions of tonnes yet to come.

ABC News

Undercover video finds cows on dairy giant farm that supplies Iceland and Costa Coffee ‘in filthy conditions’

Exclusive: One cow ‘hit in the udder’ and others struggled to walk, footage shows

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Ministers ‘run scared’ of targeting meat consumption in land use strategy

Exclusive: England plan will omit aim of reducing area used for animal farming, key to cutting emissions

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Post-Brexit £1,000 farming payments ‘too little, too late’, says NFU

Environmental cash incentives part of government scheme to replace EU common agricultural policy

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Queensland mango farmer encourages first-time fruit pickers, young people to fill labour shortages

Central Queensland teenager Bella Mahiny never thought she would end up in a shed packing mangoes over her summer holidays. She is filling a worker shortage and loving it.

The Independent UK

Bird flu outbreak in commercial poultry in Norfolk as protection zone set up

There have been 156 confirmed cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in the UK since October 1.

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James Dyson: our £120m farm investment dwarfs the CAP payments we’ve had

Letter: Brexit provides the freedom to devise a subsidy regime to replace the EU’s flawed common agricultural policy

The Guardian - UK

Just 224 farmers were paid under post-Brexit farming scheme last year

Exclusive: Leaked figures show tiny fraction of England’s farms received payment under sustainable farming incentive

Birmingham Post

Shares in Carr's Group suspended after full-year results delayed

The group said its unaudited performance for FY22 'was in line with its expectations and ahead of the prior year'

Irish Mirror

Community plunged into grief following death of young Galway farmer in tragic accident

Colie Kearney from Ballyturn, Gort, died in an accident involving a tractor while he was feeding cattle on Monday morning

Bangkok Post

BCG model for rice farms

Four agricultural associations have joined hands to promote the Bio-Circular-Green (BCG) model in rice farms across ten provinces, covering about 50,000 rai of paddy fields, with the aim of getting them to produce premium-quality rice.

Salon

Food and agriculture stories for 2023

There’s a great need for change, change that large institutions will likely fight

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Saudi Arabia Announces $1 Bn Plan to Increase Agricultural Production in Greenhouses

Saudi Minister of Environment, Water and Agriculture, Abdulrahman al-Fadhli, approved the expansion plan in the plant resources sector and greenhouses with new investments valued at $1.06 billion until 2025. The plan is done in cooperation with the relevant authorities and private sector companies, which aim to raise production capacity by…

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