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A Washington Cohousing Project Could Help Preserve Farmland

Posted 2025-02-20 13:00:45

A Washington Cohousing Project Could Help Preserve Farmland

Posted 2025-02-20 13:00:45

It’s a rare sunny day in January, and about a dozen people gather on a farm in Snohomish County, Washington. The ...

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Why Are Restaurants Selling Beef From Dairy Cows?

Posted 2025-02-18 14:59:20

Why Are Restaurants Selling Beef From Dairy Cows?

Posted 2025-02-18 14:59:20

The American barbecue brisket that popped up on the menu at NYC bistro ACRU was a bit different than what one would ...

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Pulses boost SNSW profits but volatile prices a hurdle: GRDC Update

Posted 2025-02-17 05:15:59

Pulses boost SNSW profits but volatile prices a hurdle: GRDC Update

Posted 2025-02-17 05:15:59

ADDING pulses to rotations for southern NSW growers, but price volatility remains a key barrier, the GRDC Wagga Wagga ...

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Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?

Posted 2025-02-14 13:00:28

Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?

Posted 2025-02-14 13:00:28

For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard ...

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On the Ground with Grocery Stores Ditching Plastic

Posted 2025-02-11 13:00:02

On the Ground with Grocery Stores Ditching Plastic

Posted 2025-02-11 13:00:02

Lea Rainey knew that if all the plastic encasing the food she was buying at the grocery store was her pet peeve, other ...

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A Washington Cohousing Project Could Help Preserve Farmland

Posted 2025-02-20 13:00:45

A Washington Cohousing Project Could Help Preserve Farmland

Posted 2025-02-20 13:00:45

It’s a rare sunny day in January, and about a dozen people gather on a farm in Snohomish County, Washington. The ...

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Why Are Restaurants Selling Beef From Dairy Cows?

Posted 2025-02-18 14:59:20

Why Are Restaurants Selling Beef From Dairy Cows?

Posted 2025-02-18 14:59:20

The American barbecue brisket that popped up on the menu at NYC bistro ACRU was a bit different than what one would ...

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Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?

Posted 2025-02-14 13:00:28

Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?

Posted 2025-02-14 13:00:28

For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard ...

Views: 0 View more...
On the Ground with Grocery Stores Ditching Plastic

Posted 2025-02-11 13:00:02

On the Ground with Grocery Stores Ditching Plastic

Posted 2025-02-11 13:00:02

Lea Rainey knew that if all the plastic encasing the food she was buying at the grocery store was her pet peeve, other ...

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Opinion: The US Doesn’t Grow Enough Food – But We Could

Posted 2025-02-05 14:25:27

Opinion: The US Doesn’t Grow Enough Food – But We Could

Posted 2025-02-05 14:25:27

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. agriculture ...

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Grain Central - Cropping

Pulses boost SNSW profits but volatile prices a hurdle: GRDC Update

Posted 2025-02-17 05:15:59

ADDING pulses to rotations for southern NSW growers, but price volatility remains a key barrier, the GRDC Wagga Wagga Update heard last ...

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Legume cultivar developed in WA to boost farm resilience

Posted 2025-02-05 01:29:27

WAARC's HALO team has developed the world’s first cultivar of the legume pasture species, Trigonella balansae, a header harvestable crop-pasture option for WA's ...

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Sorghum harvest starts in southern Qld, northern NSW

Posted 2025-01-22 05:22:39

Sorghum harvesting is under way in northern NSW and pockets of the Darling Downs following an earlier-than-usual planting in many ...

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Spray drift near Narromine threatens major damage

A grower in NSW's Narromine district has potentially lost more than $500,000 in cotton yield following recent incidents of off-target spray ...

Posted 2025-01-20 04:06:02

ABARES cuts sorghum forecast to 2.1Mt

ABARES has cut its forecast for Australia’s 2024-25 sorghum crop to 2.1Mt, with area limitations from a big winter crop unable to counter healthy yield ...

Posted 2024-12-05 06:01:42

GIWA issues early warning on carry-over canola seed

GIWA is calling on WA growers to ensure any carry-over canola seed is stored well and germination tested prior to planting in ...

Posted 2024-12-02 01:20:16

Signs of drift damage spark concerns for cotton growers

NSW cotton growers have reported the first signs of off-target spray-drift damage as winter croppers look to control exploding weed populations in ...

Posted 2024-11-29 02:18:55

Crop Protection Forum lifts lid on resistance + PICS

Specialists from across Australia gathered at Highfields today for the annual Crop Protection Forum to find out about the latest in fungicides, herbicides, and ...

Posted 2024-11-27 06:24:42

Hopes high for above-average mungbean crop

Positive signs point to above-average mungbean production this season, with well-timed rainfall and strong global demand boosting interest in the pulse ...

Posted 2024-11-27 05:34:26

QUT project to reduce cotton industry’s GHG emissions

QUT will lead a project aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cotton production after receiving funding from the Federal Government and the ...

Posted 2024-11-25 05:25:05

Modern Farmer - News

A Washington Cohousing Project Could Help Preserve Farmland

Posted 2025-02-20 13:00:45

It’s a rare sunny day in January, and about a dozen people gather on a farm in Snohomish County, Washington. The farmer, Brett Aiello of Reconnecting Roots Farm, wants to suppress the weeds ...

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Why Are Restaurants Selling Beef From Dairy Cows?

Posted 2025-02-18 14:59:20

The American barbecue brisket that popped up on the menu at NYC bistro ACRU was a bit different than what one would typically expect from a Greenwich Village restaurant. The meat came from a dairy ...

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Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?

Posted 2025-02-14 13:00:28

For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard mysticism and charmingly earnest cluelessness around biodynamic farming. You want ...

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On the Ground with Grocery Stores Ditching Plastic

Lea Rainey knew that if all the plastic encasing the food she was buying at the grocery store was her pet peeve, other people must be frustrated by it as well. “I could have continued to be one ...

Posted 2025-02-11 13:00:02

Opinion: The US Doesn’t Grow Enough Food – But We Could

Despite having nearly a billion acres of prime farmland and a population of only 330 million people, the U.S. agriculture system, often claimed to be able to “feed the world,” can no longer ...

Posted 2025-02-05 14:25:27

In Bad Naturalist, an Author Settles on a Mountain Top and Tries to Farm

Years ago, author Paula Whyman left her DC-area home in search of a rural spot, hoping to get back to nature. What she found was 200 acres of old farmland atop a Virginia mountain. Despite having ...

Posted 2025-01-30 14:09:51

Why the West Needs Prairie Dogs

The prairie dog caught in Trap 69 was angry. And who could blame her? After waking up in her burrow on a mid-September morning, she’d waddled innocently outside for a breakfast of mini ...