China to promote modernization of farms in pledge to stabilise grain output
China will accelerate the pace of agricultural and rural modernization and stabilise grain planting area in its quest to ...
Why farms, not wet markets, are the pandemic threat you should be worrying about
We call them farms but the great bulk of food producing businesses in the west are better described as agricultural ...
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China to promote modernization of farms in pledge to stabilize grain output
China will accelerate the pace of agricultural and rural modernization and stabilize grain planting area in its quest to ...
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Taxing Farm Animals’ Farts and Burps? Denmark Gives It a Try.
Cows and pigs produce a large share of planet-warming methane. A new tax is part of a plan to clean that up. Denmark is home to five times as many pigs and cattle as people. A dairy farm in ...
World's biggest iceberg, A23a, is on the move again
The world’s largest iceberg is on the move again, drifting through the Southern Ocean after months stuck spinning on the same ...
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Smithfield Foods reduces hog footprint in deal with Murphy Family Ventures
Dec 2 (Reuters) - Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest ... close 35 farm sites in Missouri and close a plant in North Carolina. Pork producers lost money last year as pig prices and consumer ...
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Iowa Farm Bureau members gather for 106th Annual Meeting and County Leadership Conference
Bill Northey, Larry Sailer and Sam Cogdill were recognized as Iowa Farm Bureau’s Distinguished Service to Agriculture (DSA) ...
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Indigenous Mayans want their sacred cenotes to have personhood status
Cenotes provide an important water source to Ek’s community of Homun, in the Mexican state of Yucatan, and a livelihood for locals who lead tourists from around the world into the caverns to ...
Mega-Farms Are Driving the Threat of Bird Flu
In the West, where herds of thousands of cattle are common, researchers are seeing cases rise at poultry and dairy operations ...
On the range with Pennsylvania’s professional farm sitters
Pennsylvania has tens of thousands of farms, most family-owned. So who’s watching the animals when they’re gone?
Seattle Times21d
Taxing Farm Animals’ Farts and Burps? Denmark Gives It a Try.
That’s because there are five times as many pigs and cows in Denmark as there are people. Nearly two-thirds of its land is taken up by farming. And agriculture is becoming its largest share of ...
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Wisconsin PSC approves 1.3 GW Vista Sands, one of the largest solar projects in the US
Doral Renewables hopes to begin construction on the 1,300 MW solar farm and 300 MW battery energy storage system in March ...