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Farmers Work to Cool Livestock and Chickens as Heat Gets Extreme

The health of animals and farmers’ incomes are under threat as temperatures soar in the U.S. The health of animals and farmers’ incomes are under threat as temperatures soar in the U.S. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content…

Farmers Work to Cool Livestock and Chickens in Sweltering Conditions

The health of animals and farmers’ incomes are under threat as temperatures soar in the U.S. The health of animals and farmers’ incomes are under threat as temperatures soar in the U.S. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content…

Sugar Shortage Threatens Candy Production Ahead of Halloween, Holiday Seasons

Buyers and producers debate agriculture policy requiring companies use mostly U.S. sugar. Buyers and producers debate agriculture policy requiring companies use mostly U.S. sugar. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and…

How satellite technology is helping transform agriculture

The government is implementing various projects related to crop production forecasting and drought assessment which involves use of satellite images such as Forecasting Agricultural Output using Space, Agro- meteorology and land-based observations (FASAL) project for crop production, forecasting of field crops, National Agricultural Drought Assessment and Monitoring System (NADAMS) for Agricultural drought assessment.FASAL and NADAMS are operationalized by Mahalanobis National Crop Forecast Centre (MNCFC) an attached…

Why These Surfers Want to Restore a Rainforest

Hometree’s restoration effort, says Ó Foghlú, will be based on the advice of ecologists and foresters. But the tentative vision is to return pine forests to the upper slopes of the valley, willow and alder to the floodplain, and oak and birch to the valley sides. The group will also work to regenerate blanket bogs and protect species-rich grasslands.But reforestation won’t be easy. Parts of these hills are so bereft of native trees that woods can’t easily regenerate. Centuries of heavy rainfall have also leached nutrients…

This Startup Wants to Give Farmers a Closer Look at Crops—From Space

Aspia Space is joining the ranks of companies and space agencies working on remote sensing, tracking the physical attributes of things on the ground by using sensors on satellites. The majority of Earth observation satellites, like NASA’s long-running Landsat program, use sensors for optical images—essentially, photos from space. But at any given time, the majority of the Earth is covered in clouds, as well as smoke and air pollution, which can block those sensors and create major data gaps. Radar has the benefit of…

Gene-Edited Yeast Is Taking Over Craft Beer

While the startup cofounders considered hoppy-tasting but hop-free beer potentially beneficial to brewers and the environment—as Denby said in a New York Times story after the paper was published—some hop farmers felt threatened. They feared engineered yeast could end a farming tradition and hollow out the soul of brewing, a dance of microorganisms, farmers, brewers, and hops stretching back to the 11th century.Denby declines to talk on the record about the antagonism, which caught the company by surprise, but news of the…

Harvesting Crews Hustle to Bring in Wheat Crop Hit by Drought, Late Rains

Seasonal outfits that work across breadbasket states lost business with a slow start. Seasonal outfits that work across breadbasket states lost business with a slow start. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors. If you are the owner of the content and do not…

The Supermarket Aisle Where Prices Are Still Soaring

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When Your Neighbor Is a Farm With 2,500 Hogs

Local lawmakers and state courts have taken steps to shield large-scale hog barns from lawsuits—and paved the way for them to expand. Local lawmakers and state courts have taken steps to shield large-scale hog barns from lawsuits—and paved the way for them to expand. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their…