The Latest Breaking News on Agriculture

Let’s be like Paris and ban pesticides in cities, say UK campaigners

More than 150 councillors join 15,000 members of the public calling for urban areas to be free of the chemicals

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2024

‘There is nothing to replace coca’: Colombia’s struggling farmers tempted by illegal crops

A government initiative to help communities move away from farming coca has stalled, while a surge in global cocaine use has made demand for the plant higher than ever

The Guardian - UK · Aug 28, 2024

Farmworkers not protected from bird flu

“They should give us something more,” one dairy worker from Larimer County said in Spanish

Salon · Aug 27, 2024

Growing Australia: how a refugee from Iran helped expand the pistachio industry

Mehran Mahdavi is among the many migrants whose skills and knowledge transformed our horticulture industry – and taste buds

The Guardian - AU · Aug 24, 2024

‘We’ve got baby owls again’: how farming policy is helping English wildlife

Some fear the ambitious environmental land management scheme is at risk, just as farmers are beginning to embrace it

The Guardian - UK · Aug 23, 2024

Supreme Court asks Punjab, Haryana to continue talks with farmers

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the States of Punjab and Haryana to continue their meetings with the protesting farmers, to persuade them to clear the highway along the Shambhu border. Read further on Dynamite News

Dynamite News · Aug 22, 2024

China opens anti-subsidy probe into EU dairy imports in EV tariff rebuff

China opened an anti-subsidy probe into dairy imports from the European Union on Wednesday, stepping up tension with the bloc a day after Brussels published its revised tariff plan for China-made electric vehicles.

Radio France Internationale · Aug 22, 2024

The case for going "flexitarian"

"A national flexitarian diet would reduce the amount of U.S. farmland by roughly the size of South Dakota"

Salon · Aug 21, 2024

China opens investigation into EU dairy exports as trade tensions flare

European milk and cheese producers have become the latest target in a simmering trade war with China

The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2024

Human manure or ‘nightsoil’ makes great crop fertiliser – but attitudes to poo-grown produce differ drastically

Would you eat potatoes grown in human poo? And how would you feel if the marigolds in your local park sprouted from human manure? In the midst of climate crisis, human manure offers significant environmental benefits. But can we overcome the “yuck factor” to embrace this sustainable solution?

The Conversation · Aug 20, 2024