#agriculture
Saving our soil: How to extend US breadbasket fertility for centuries.
The Midwestern United States has lost 57.6 billion tons of topsoil due to farming practices over the past 160 years.
Researchers recently reported that no-till farming, which is currently practiced on 40 percent of cropland acres in the Midwest, can extend our current level of soil fertility for the next several centuries. This has implications for everything from food security to climate-change mitigation.
#climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #farming #food #agriculture
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/05/230525141241.htm
C'est une activité assez cool pour le soir.
Bisous au terreau les copains
#semis #agriculture #bio #maraîchage #JdF
How Intensive Farming Practices Are Wiping Out Europe’s Wild Birds | via a huge @Natures_Voice collaboration & published by @PNASNews
by @GrrlScientist via @ForbesScience / @Forbes
#agriculture #farming #pesticides #herbicides #fertilizers #birds https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/05/29/how-intensive-farming-practices-are-wiping-out-europes-wild-birds/
With fertilizer prices soaring due to the weak yen and the Russia-Ukraine war, compost made from livestock waste is being re-evaluated in parts of Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/29/national/domestic-fertilizer-resources/?utm_content=buffer7c476&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #agriculture #inflation #kyushu #kagoshima #kumamoto
#Republican legislation would overturn #Biden’s #Labor Department rule changing how much many #agriculture employees are paid
https://govtrackinsider.com/republican-legislation-would-overturn-bidens-labor-department-rule-changing-how-much-many-59c8c923b872
Map of the Week: Strawberry Production - find out more at http://wrld.at/motw269 #maps #cartograms #cartography #worldmapper #motw #strawberry #fruit #strawberries #summer #food #foodproduction #agriculture #farming
New bean genome unveils potential to boost food security in drought-prone regions
An international team of researchers has fully sequenced the genome of a climate resilient bean that could bolster food security in drought-prone regions.
https://globalplantcouncil.org/new-bean-genome-unveils-potential-to-boost-food-security-in-drought-prone-regions/ via University of Southampton #plantscience #plantsci #agriculture #crops #cliamtechange #foodsecurity #food #plants #beans
Locusts are terrifying, particularly when they are swarming. Their ability to decimate the agricultural output of a region has been shown time and again.
One aspect of their "gregarious" swarming phase is their competitive cannibalism of each other.
Now, scientists have genetically identified the pheromone compound used to prevent this, possibly opening new control methods.
#Locust #Agriculture #Pheromone #Genetics #Biology #Biotechnology #Science #Scicomm
« T’as vu, j’ai dit du bien des pesticides ! » Marc Fesneau, le ministre de l’Agriculture. Ça tombe bien, il y en a partout, y compris dans les terres qui n'ont pas été traitées. #agriculture #écologie #pesticides
Une présence généralisée des pesticides dans les sols agricoles de France, selon une étude-pilote https://justpaste.it/7w0b5
L'Atlas des pesticides vient de paraître en France et démontre leur vertigineuse consommation https://www.francetvinfo.fr/replay-radio/un-degre-de-conscience/l-atlas-des-pesticides-vient-de-paraitre-en-france-et-demontre-leur-vertigineuse-consommation_5822573.html #france #agriculture #pesticides #environnement #pollution #consommation #industrie_agroalimentaire #agriculture_intensive #1st_revue #0_archivebox #2nd_frm
Space Economy Executive Briefing: 30 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers
#MarketDataAndAnalysis #PolicyLawRegulation #QuickOverviews #Socioeconomic #SpaceEconomy #ActiveDebrisRemoval #Agriculture #ArtificialIntelligence #AsteroidMining #BlueOrigin #BusinessModels #China #ClimateChange #CommercialCrewProgram #Competition #Constellations #Defense #Earth #EarthObservation #EconomicD
...in order to save humanity, we must not only exponentially increase our efforts to decarbonize our society, but also to have a second #GreenRevolution.
Now I know, we have been messing with our oceans, too, maybe even beyond repair beyond the children of #GenerationAlpha, but maybe there is to solution to the food problem by focusing on #algae and the like:
https://mastodonapp.uk/@palmoildetectives/109662507433798809
In order to have that time, we must rediscover #agriculture by combining age-old...
Y'all have no idea how many small farmers on this #island talk to me about needing help. If anybody wants to do some #farm visit/work trade in #Hawaii holla bc I can hook you up. #agriculture #permaculture #travel #learn
#Exposition "#Paris, capitale de la #gastronomie, du Moyen Âge à nos jours"
Belle expo dans un lieu tjs magique (#Conciergerie). Quelques siècles de nourriture : des banquets royaux au dîner de la #Cop21, en passant par le ventre de Paris (#Halles), quelques détours #circuitscourts avec le grenier alimentaire qu'est l'Île-de-France, sans oublier l'#histoire des restaurants, bistrots et autres bouillons, et les objets qui en sont indissociables
https://www.paris-conciergerie.fr/agenda/paris-capitale-de-la-gastronomie-du-moyen-age-a-nos-jours
#agriculture #maraichage
L’association AlVelAl0 tente d’enclencher une transition locale vers le régénératif, avec une approche de la durabilité à 360°. C’est la philosophie des « 4 retours ». Le « retour de la terre », Le « retour économique », le « retour social », et le « retour de l’inspiration ».
L'article complet sur https://reporterre.net/En-Andalousie-l-agriculture-regenerative-s-epanouit-sur-des-sols-asseches
#agriculture #regenerative #secheresse #antidote
#menschenrechte #umwelt #protest #indigenous #people #humanrights #ecology #environment #agriculture #exports #drought
Seit November letzten Jahres protestiert eine Gruppe von Frauen aus den benachbarten Wichí-Dörfern Misión Chaqueña und Carboncito gegen die Abholzung ihres Waldes. In der brennenden Sommerhitze des Chaco sitzen die Frauen täglich im Protestcamp in dem Waldstück, das die beiden Ortschaften im Norden der argentinischen Provinz Salta voneinander trennt.
https://www.pressenza.com/de/2023/05/eine-krise-jagt-die-naechste/
#indigene #Volk #menschenrechte ##Ökologie #umwelt #agrar #Dürre #protest #indigenous #people #humanrights #ecology #environment #agriculture #exports #drought #protest
Eine systematische Förderung der kleinbäuerlichen Produktion, öffentliche Investitionen und die Eindämmung der ökologischen und sozialen Lasten durch die industrielle Landwirtschaft wären dringend notwendig, um den multiplen Krisen im Chaco Salteño zu begegnen.
https://lateinamerika-nachrichten.de/artikel/eine-krise-jagt-die-naechste/
"We’ve lived through a number of #FlashDrought events, and they’re not pleasant. People suffer. #Farmers lose crops. #Ranchers may have to sell off cattle. In 2022, a flash drought slowed barge traffic on the #Mississippi River, which carries more than 90% of U.S. #agriculture exports.
If a flash drought occurs at a critical point in the growing season, it could devastate an entire #crop."
https://fortune.com/2023/05/26/what-is-flash-drought-agriculture-climate-change-global-warming/
It's great to see more & more objective, fact-based reporting on #GMOs and GM plants in particular, in German media. 👍
Great job @deutschewelle.
"We have 30 years of safety information showing that GM food is completely safe to eat, and 30 years of information showing it's not dangerous for the environment"
#plantscience #plantresearch #geneticengineering #gmo #gmfoods #agriculture
We are happy to announce that Sarah Heiligtag, the founder of the farm sanctuary HOF NARR, will present at the IARC2023. Sarah will give an overview of the transFARMation project she has worked on for the past 5 years, which has supported 125 farms to change into cruelty-free places.
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▶️ https://ar-conference.org/sarah_heiligtag
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#IARC2023 #AnimalRights #AnimalLiberation #AnimalRightsConference #AnimalRightsActivist #AnimalRightsActivism #agriculture #transfarmation #biovegan #stockfree
[Commentary] Because of the growth and further intensification of animal production, humans inflict more suffering on animals now than they did in 1975. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2023/05/26/commentary/world-commentary/animal-food-production/?utm_content=buffer205cb&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #opinion #commentary #food #agriculture #animals
Bon bah ça y est, depuis avant hier, tous les #oignons sont plantés. Environ 3000. Par contre j'ai planté plus dense que ce que j'avais anticipé. Bon on verra.
#agriculture #maraîchage #bio #JdF
Dimanche 28 mai 2023, on va pique-niquer à #Gonesse.
Mais pas que...
De 11h à 17h : Ateliers affiches et collage, chansons, #musique, #chants, Stéphane DERRADI et #chorale, conférence débat sur "#Agriculture et #alimentation"
On y va à #vélo. 🚲
Si ça vous tente de venir avec nous, départ 9h30 vers Corentin-Cariou (accès canal St-Denis) à Paris.
Sinon... rendez-vous sur place ? 😉
🥦🍆🍅🥕🥔🫑🌶🌽
#ZADimanche #DesLégumesPasDuBitume #CPTG
https://ouiauxterresdegonesse.fr/
"Cultivating farmer prosperity: Investing in regenerative agriculture"
This report from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development on what the transition to a regenerative agriculture model looks like an interesting read. I appreciate that it looks at the topic from a farmer's perspective.
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#sustainability #regenerative #agriculture #farming
Can satellite imagery fight illegal logging in Mexico?
Egypt defers payments for wheat imports amid dollar crunch
"It’s now a year since I published Regenesis, a book that has incited levels of fury shocking even to me. I’ve spent much of this time trying to work out what makes people so angry. I think it’s because the book challenges what the cognitive historian Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply embedded in our minds that it affects our preferences without our conscious knowledge"
George Monbiot on "storybook farming".
#Farming #Agriculture #ClimateEmergency
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/26/farming-good-factory-bad-global-food-crisis
Automated counting and measuring method for efficient maize trichome identification
A research team from China recently utilized computer vision, artificial intelligence, and deep learning techniques to develop an automatic algorithm to count and measure maize trichomes.
https://globalplantcouncil.org/automated-counting-and-measuring-method-for-efficient-maize-trichome-identification/ via NanJing Agricultural University #plantscience #plantsci #maize #corn #trichomes #science #agriculture
EU extends Ukraine tariff suspension, Zelenskyy wants it permanent https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/eu-extends-ukraine-tariff-suspension-zelenskyy-wants-it-permanent/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #agriculture #EUinternalmarket #foodprices #Russianinvasion #tariffs
EU extends Ukraine tariff suspension, Zelenskyy wants it permanent https://www.euractiv.com/section/enlargement/news/eu-extends-ukraine-tariff-suspension-zelenskyy-wants-it-permanent/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #agriculture #EUinternalmarket #foodprices #Russianinvasion #tariffs
"This economic arrangement, which many of today's farmers call a new form of serfdom, not only devastates farmers but incentivizes a food system that is causing rising obesity rates, limited access to fresh foods in inner-city areas, and nearly one-third of greenhouse gas emissions globally." https://prospect.org/power/2023-05-24-how-washington-bargained-away-rural-america/ #USPol #congress #agriculture #farmers
"brazen" is a good description of this "climate-friendly beef", but not for the reason Tyson wants us to think
"You're telling me that Tyson just received $61 million in taxpayer money to create climate-friendly beef? And that we don’t know what climate-friendly beef means? And that the entity that is supposed to label it climate-friendly won't tell us how they're going to figure that out?"
"The risk of flash droughts, which can develop in the span of a few weeks, is on pace to rise in every major agriculture region around the world in the coming decades," per #research from the University of Oklahoma.
#drought #agriculture #flashdrought
https://theconversation.com/farmers-face-a-soaring-risk-of-flash-droughts-in-every-major-food-growing-region-in-coming-decades-new-research-shows-206265
“A World Bank report has cautioned that ‘the impact of rising sea levels and intensified storm surges in Guyana would be among the greatest in the world, exposing 100% of the country’s coastal agriculture and 66.4% of coastal urban areas to flooding and coastal erosion.’”
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #SeaLevelRise #Guyana #agriculture #flooding
George Monbiot's latest is well-written as always, but it's a tough read. Agriculture is an absolute requirement for human society, we have 9 billion people to feed, but modern agriculture is destroying everything it needs, and we need, to survive.
#food #agriculture #climate #biodiversity
#Phytophthora 'the #plant destroyer' meets its match with a new identification tool.
#agriculture #phytopathology #IDphy
https://phys.org/news/2023-05-phytophthora-destroyer-identification-tool.html
Jusqu’à la dernière goutte … ?
#eau #écologie #multinationales #agriculture https://confpeps.org/jusqua-la-derniere-goutte/
Are you hungry for change? [Promoted content] https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/opinion/are-you-hungry-for-change/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #agriculturalinnovation #agriculture #Agrifood #ClimateChange
The number of pigs slaughtered between January and April 2023 fell by 11.0%
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ls/livestockslaughteringsapril2023/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon&utm_campaign=Livestock+Slaughterings+April+2023&utm_term=Livestock+Slaughterings+April+2023
#CSOIreland #Ireland #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Farming #Prices #AgPrices #Livestock #Cattle #Sheep #Pigs #MilkStatistics #MilkProduction #Dairy #Milk #Tillage #Crops #Agronomy #CensusofAgriculture
A U.K. farm tests curbing greenhouse gases — by making sheep burp less.
Semafor reports from southern England: https://www.semafor.com/article/05/24/2023/uk-farm-greenhouse-gases-sheep-methane
See How The Colorado River Water Gets Used Up
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/22/climate/colorado-river-water.html <-- shared media article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-020-0483-z <-- shared paper
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“Hint: It’s less about long showers and more about what’s for dinner…"
#GIS #spatial #mapping #hydrology #water #waterresources #wateruse #watermanagement #waterconservation #like #sustainability #ColoradoRiver #agriculture #irrigation #foodsupply #watersecurity #waterindustry #waterinfrastructure #watercrisis #USA #regulations #regulatoryaffairs #ColoradoRiverCompact #USWest #westernstates #western #administration #waterrestrictions #planning #populationgrowth
Shavuot—or the Feast of Weeks—is a Jewish holiday, celebrated between May 25–27. The holiday has both an agricultural and biblical significance.
Let's discover the intriguing names of Shavuot and the stories they hold 🌸✨ Each name sheds light on the profound significance of this time. 🌾🔔
#shavuot #shavuot2023 #hebrew #jewish #judaism #agriculture #torah #israel #mazeldon
https://www.instagram.com/p/CsoFh74Lx4L/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
#USDA #ClimateChange #agriculture #forestry
'The new hub builds on the experience with 10 regional Climate Hubs throughout the United States and the Caribbean to compile, share and significantly expand knowledge, understanding, and implementation of climate-smart agriculture and forestry practices in the United States.'
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2023/05/22/usda-climate-hubs-go-global
If you're in the UK, #Regenesis is now out in paperback!
An incendiary page-turner, Regenesis argues farming is destroying the planet and explores lower-impact solutions.
#Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Scicomm #Food #Agriculture #Farms #Farming #Livestock #Vegan #Veganism #Vegetarian #Vegetarianism @bookstodon
#menschenrechte #umwelt #presse #fridaysforfuture #landwirtschaft #umweltschutz
#indigenous #human #rights #humanrights #ecology #environment #press #berlin
#climate #agriculture #protection
In ganz #deutschland werden #Landwirt:innen und #Klimaaktivist:innen in den kommenden Wochen mit gemeinsamen #aktionen gegen das #eu - #mercosur - Abkommen demonstrieren, am 26.05. zum Beispiel in #hannover, #ulm oder #bonn vor dem Bundesministerium für #wirtschaft und #klimaschutz
In Africa, a man is using termites to help land recover from desertification: “By breaking up the soil and providing more nutrients, the termites helped to improve the planting conditions for crops and trees.”
https://www.treeaid.org/blogs-updates/how-one-man-stopped-the-desert
#Agriculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #Trees
RIP to the "It ain't much, but it's honest work" meme guy. The man behind the meme was a big proponent of #NoTill #SoilScience and an internationally-known #agriculture expert. Salute, Dave Brandt!
From Costa Rica to West Africa, the practice of bokashi — the use of fermented waste as fertilizer — has taken root, especially as the cost of chemical fertilizer has surged due to the war in Ukraine. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/23/national/teruo-higa-bokashi-interview/?utm_content=buffer6b51e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #news #japan #food #agriculture
The names have been released of the 7 farmworkers killed in the crash outside of Albany, OR last week.
7 people on their way home from growing and picking your food, in a country that gives them no status and no protections in exchange for that hard, skilled, necessary work.
Eduardo Lopez
Alejandro Jimenez Hernandez
Josue Garcia Garcia
Luis Enrique Gomez Reyes
Javier Suarez
Alejandra Espinoza Carpio
Juan Carlos Leyva Carrillo
https://www.myjournalcourier.com/news/article/names-of-farmworker-victims-in-deadly-oregon-18113455.php
On news that the #ColoradoRiver states have agreed to sharp reductions in their water use, a reminder that more than half of the water pulled from the river goes to livestock feed.
#agriculture #water #climate #colorado #arizona #california
Chart from: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/22/climate/colorado-river-water.html
Qu'est ce que c'est compliqué l'#irrigation !
Beaucoup de pièces, de raccords, de toutes les tailles, de toutes les formes, et quand on y connaît pas grand chose c'est un peu comme un grand #puzzle.
Bon la bonne nouvelle c'est que j'ai plus de #pression que ce qu'on m'avait annoncé. On m'avait dit 3 bars, ce qui est un peu limite, mais en fait c'est plutôt 5 bars, ce qui me permettra d'envisager de l'#aspersion et pas que du gouttes à gouttes.
#eau #agriculture #maraîchage #bio #JdF
Colorado Potato Beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata Canon 7D EFS-60 2.8 f/2.8 1/320 iso: 600 Milovice, CZE August 24 2019 #Ceetles #Chrysomelid #invasiveSpecies #Chrysomelidae #LeafBeetles #Pest #insects #invertebrates #macro #Agriculture
Béchu est vraiment, mais alors vraiment une saleté de menteur ! Même la PQR débunke ses mensonges (bravo à la Nouvelle République du Centre pour ce débunkage). Avec Marc Fesneau, c'est un beau duo de crapules écocidaires.
https://www.lanouvellerepublique.fr/deux-sevres/commune/mauze-sur-le-mignon/desinfox-bassines-non-le-brgm-n-a-pas-pris-en-compte-le-changement-climatique
#environnement #agriculture #BassinesNonMerci
#NoBassaran #EauSecours
#Macronie #Macron
Tea or chai? Celebrating International Tea Day
La conduite principale est enfin déroulée (⬆️). Heureusement qu'un bon #ami a pu venir me donner un coup de main pour ça, ça aurait été très galère sinon. Comme elle est relativement rigide, ça se comportait quelque part entre l'accordéon et le ressort.
#eau #agriculture #bio #maraîchage #JdF
Happy #WorldBeeDay Bees are critical pollinators, mitigating #climatechange, creating #biodiversity. They are ecosystem architects of the highest order! #Industrial #agriculture for #meat #soy and #palmoil are their greatest enemies #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #pesticides #pesticidefree
Learn more about The Three Sisters of Indigenous American Agriculture
https://www.nal.usda.gov/collections/stories/three-sisters
We're using #3Sisters technique for the bulk of our vegetables that @penny eats but the remaining yard will be in the #EnglishGarden style, which has nothing to do with #Indigenous North American #Agriculture, as we try to reduce our lawn.
#Dartmoor in #springtime. The landscape of Dartmoor is quite varied although it is geologically a #granite intrusion into the Earth’s crust it has been shaped by weathering, erosion and human intervention, such as #agriculture and #forestry. Here we see a #river #valley in the background and a #TreeStump in the foreground. The weather was as benign as can be expected there as you can tell by the blue #sky and light clouds.
Growing food and draining water resources, Ogallala aquifer https://www.axios.com/2023/05/17/future-of-food-production-hinges-on-water #agriculture #sustainability #water #food
Arizona's farms are running out of water, forcing farmers to confront climate change.
NPR reports: https://www.npr.org/2023/05/18/1176657700/arizona-farms-running-out-water-farmers-climate-change-colorado-river
Dans le Lot-et-Garonne, guerre de l’eau et lutte des classes
Dans ce département aux riches terres agricoles, un conflit sur l’eau s’est noué autour du lac de Caussade, construit illégalement par la chambre d’#agriculture. Ses dirigeants perçoivent les écologistes comme des ennemis. Et ils nient très largement la réalité du dérèglement climatique.
Europe has lost about one quarter of its bird population over the last 40 years.
A new study from the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that intensive farming is the key factor in this decline, even more so than global warming or urbanisation.
FRANCE 24's Science reporter Shirli Sitbon looks at the reasons why intensive farming has been singled out.
A team of more than 50 researchers, analysing data collected by thousands of citizen scientists in 28 countries over nearly four decades, found that it is intensive agriculture, above all, that is behind the decline in the continent’s bird populations.
The use of pesticides and fertilisers was identified as the most significant factor behind the loss of 550 million birds from the skies over Europe.
#Birds #Agriculture #Farming #Pesticides #HabitatLoss #Environment #Europe
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/15/intensive-farming-is-biggest-cause-of-bird-decline-in-europe-study-says?CMP=GTUK_email
Plus j'étudie la #TEK (Traditional Ecology Knowledge), plus je découvre toute l'ingéniosité des peuples autochtones pour vivre en parfaite symbiose avec leur environnement.
Ces connaissances touchent aussi bien le #design, l'#architecture mais aussi l'#agriculture et le #textile
Si vous souhaitez découvrir ce domaine : https://futuromium.substack.com/p/48-une-tete-a-tek
$15M Alternative Chicken, Fish Challenge Finalists Named
An international #challenge #competition seeking #sustainable but realistic alternatives to natural #chicken and #fish #protein named its six finalist teams.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44774
#News #Science #Business #Biotechnology #Food #Engineering #Agriculture #Cells #Plants #Fermentation
"The average upland hill farmer on Bodmin and Dartmoor at the moment takes between 85% and 92% of their annual income from EU subsidies. All of these subsidies are going by 2028. People say these farms are viable businesses that sell food – they’re not, they’re nine-tenths funded through subsidies and grants. We’re looking at alternative ways of producing food that put nature at the forefront.”
#Farming #Agriculture #Environment #TemperateRainforest #Rewilding
Digital Editor Kit @oconnell appeared on the Progress #Texas podcast to discuss their coverage of the Texas Department of #Agriculture's transphobic new dress code: https://nitter.nl/ProgressTX/status/1654582550994583553#m
Tune in on Apple podcasts (or find it in the usual places): https://apple.co/3LlG3k2
Read Kit's latest on the dress code: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-dress-code-transphobia-texas-agriculture/
#podcast #LGBTQIA+ #transphobia #news #politics #trans #transgender #HumanRights
New podcast episode!
This one’s a deep dive on the US food system during Jim Crow, how Southern landowners used starvation to control Black and poor white farm workers, and how that laid the groundwork for the food system we have today.
https://shows.acast.com/farm-to-taber/episodes/king-cotton-jim-crow-and-pellagra
Shading crops under solar panels -- known as "agrivoltaics" -- is win-win:
it can increase farm output while greatly reducing carbon emissions.
Corn, lettuce, potatoes, tomatoes, wheat and pasture grass have already been proven to have increased yields.
Councils and the dairy industry are failing to warn rural people of the reproductive risks of drinking nitrate-contaminated water when pregnant, despite international scientific studies and warnings from the New Zealand College of Midwives: https://www.greenpeace.org/aotearoa/press-release/gore-district-council-and-ecan-deny-science-on-nitrate-risks-greenpeace/
#nzpol #agriculture #farming #pollution #water #newzealand #greenpeace
From the archives: Visit #Texas Agriculture commissioner Sid Miller’s creepy $55k office/taxidermy museum. https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-agriculture-commissioner-office/
#corruption #politics #news #agriculture #weird #photography
Since I broke the story of #Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's new transphobic dress code in the @TexasObserver, he's doubled down on his bigotry in the media.
For my latest update, I spoke with an employment lawyer, a former #gender law educator turned senior attorney for Lambda Legal, and #LGBTQIA+ advocates about why this dress code opens the department up to serious legal liability, and how decades of precedent suggest it could easily be ruled discriminatory: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-dress-code-transphobia-texas-agriculture/
#Transphobia #queer #nonbinary #trans #transgender #news #Politics #agriculture #SocialMedia #birdsite #Fascism
(CW: eye contact with Sid Miller in main image)
“[The dress code] would obviously be Exhibit A in any potential lawsuit for discriminatory treatment.”
NEW: Legal experts told Editor Kit @oconnell how half a century of precedents make Texas #Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller's transphobic policy a bad idea https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-dress-code-transphobia-texas-agriculture/
(📸 Sid Miller tastefully dressed in his tasteful office, via
Michael Donhauser/picture-alliance/dpa/AP)
#LGBTQIA+ #trans #Newstodon #news #transphobia #SCOTUS #law #politics #Texas #history #
Someone on #birdsite (@bostonandbaby1) just pointed this out to us and well... 😂
The #Simpsons' Richard Texan vs. #Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller (of the infamous 'dress code'): https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-department-agriculture-dress-code-transgender/
So many unanswered questions like... why does someone who dresses like a Simpsons character get to tell anyone else how to dress?
#agriculture #queer #LGBTQIA+ #transphobia #trans #news #memes #cartoons #fashion
#Texas #agriculture #commissioner makes #Texas #DepartmentofAgriculture a #hostileworkplace under #TitleVII as he issues #Transphobic #dresscode for #employees.
The #Transphobic policy comes as #LGBTQ+ #advocates are fighting a #Genocide pushed by #hateful #RepublicanParty politicians across the country.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA #Texas #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate
https://19thnews.org/2023/04/texas-agriculture-commissioner-issues-anti-transgender-dress-code-for-employees/
The internal department memo is just the latest attempt by state officials in Texas to crackdown on trans and gender non-conforming people.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7ebag/texas-ag-transgender-dress-code-memo
#News #texas #Gender #extremism #Politics #agriculture #anti-transpolicies #SidMiller #civilrightsacts
Our friends at @texastribune picked up the story from us: https://www.texastribune.org/2023/04/24/sid-miller-agriculture-department-texas-anti-trans-dress-code/
and reprinted the entire dress code policy for those who wish to see the entire document: https://static.texastribune.org/media/files/1b355128e99f3d7ef0fc260db35f4df5/Dress%20Code%20and%20Grooming%20Policy.pdf?_ga=2.217282963.425595656.1682370506-411444715.1679887173
@oconnell #LGBTQIA #Texas #transgender #Transphobia #queer #agriculture #politics #news
Dealing with #RussianKnapweed after it has become established is… a challenge.
Some notes:
* It basically laughs at glyphosate (roundup). If you don't use it at exactly the right time it barely seems to notice and even then about the best you can hope for is to scorch the surface, not the root
* AFAICT 2,4-D either doesn't phase it or it actively likes it unless you combine it with something else. Completely ineffective on its own
* Fire helps it by killing competition
UPDATE—We've added more from the leaked #Texas Department of #Agriculture dress code to Kit @oconnell's story. Specifically the closing section where standards for men and #women are outlined as well as penalties for violating the policy. This should add more context to discussions: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-department-agriculture-dress-code-transgender/
#transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #news #politics #USpol #trans #queer #workers
Biotech Partners on Synthetic Proteins to Protect Crops
A developer of synthetic #antibody-like #proteins for protecting #crops is collaborating with a global #agricultural chemical company on sustainable #biologic #insect controls.
https://sciencebusiness.technewslit.com/?p=44717
#News #Science #Business #Agriculture #Collaboration #SyntheticBiology #Europe #Biotechnology #Chemistry #Pests #Sustainable
I've a new story out today @TexasObserver based on a document leaked to me from the #Texas Department of #Agriculture.
Workers are now expected to dress "in a manner consistent with their biological gender" (whatever that means!) according to a memo released April 17. An employee told us they fear for #LGBTQIA+ coworkers: https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-department-agriculture-dress-code-transgender/
#transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #trans #gender #queer #news #Workers #politics #HumanRights #transgender #Republicans
”Employees are expected to comply with this dress code in a manner consistent with their biological #gender.”—#Texas Department of #Agriculture memorandum
Ag Dept employees received an unwelcome surprise in a new dress code issued last week that seems aimed at oppressing #transgender and #nonbinary workers, reports Digital Editor Kit @oconnell based on a document leaked to us:
https://www.texasobserver.org/sid-miller-department-agriculture-dress-code-transgender/
#transphobia #LGBTQIA+ #news #politics #USpol #trans #HumanRights #GregAbbott #Republicans
#vss365 prompt: #bumblebee
I sing a song of single tone,
A constant, mesmerizing drone,
And displace pollen as I fumble.
Industrious, alert and humble,
I see you have sufficient clover.
But if my days are almost over,
I fear you’re short on revery
To make a prairie without me.
#poetry #smallpoems #riddlepoems #science #biology #emilydickinson #environment #bees #agriculture #climatechange #poetrycommunity
@jake4480 good to know for #agriculture ?
What's the biggest cause of the West’s water crisis? Vox reports that the Colorado River is going dry ... to feed cows.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-water-alfalfa-dairy-beef-meat
The Philippine Supreme Court decision to stop the release of Golden Rice and Bt Eggplant was based on the people’s right to balanced and healthful ecology. The genetically modified orgqnisms are patented to transnational agrochemical corporation Syngenta.
#Philippines #GMO #Biosafety #Food #GeneticEngineering #Asia #TootSea #Syngenta #Environment #Agriculture
This is a must-read Vox piece on what's causing the water crisis in the West: Cows.
There's no way around it. We're draining the Colorado river for cows. Everything else is a literal drop in the bucket. Municipal conservation cannot solve the problem. Drying up golf courses and lawns cannot solve the problem.
It's. The. Cows.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/23655640/colorado-river-water-alfalfa-dairy-beef-meat
#climate #climatechange #agriculture #cattle #cows #colorado #coloradoriver #drought
“Support for #farming is being cut all over the place, and I don’t know when it will end.”
Cotton growers in #Mexico say they are struggling under new rules which ban seeds that depend on the controversial, likely cancer-causing pesticide glyphosate: https://www.texasobserver.org/mexico-cotton-gm-seeds-glyphosate-farmers/
Published in partnership with our friends at Global Press Journal.
(📸 Photo by Lilette Contreras)
#environment #health #agriculture #pollution #news #politics
Life-Giving but Lethal: The Culprit Behind Dead Zones and the Threat to Our Water Supply
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The unchecked flow of phosphorus into our waterways — often from farm runoff — contributes to “dead zones” and toxic algae blooms.
At the same time, as an essential ingredient in fertilizer, phosphorus turns vast swaths of land green, nourishing crops and animals. It makes life possible for billions of people.
12-year-olds can't buy cigarettes — but they can work in tobacco fields. NPR explains how child labor laws are more lenient in agriculture than in other industries, and efforts to change that have repeatedly failed.
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/17/1168824035/child-labor-tobacco-legal-dangerous
A better articulated article about #ClimateBreakdown happening in #Pakistan. Being ignored both here locally and abroad.
Breakdown isnt just 'storms' or 'floods', its much more fundamental. We don't need to 'imagine' #ClimateChange compromising #agriculture, its already happening as illustrated in the article.
Unfortunately, its in Urdu: you'll need to translate it into English first to read it.
https://loksujag.com/story/wheat-crisis-south-punjab
#ClimateDiary #ClimateCrisis #Heatwave #GlobalSouth #LokSujag #Paktodon
Did you work to kill #chickens or clean #farms during the 2015 #avianinfluenza outbreak in #Iowa? You might be eligible for back #wages.
The federal government is trying to locate people who worked in #Osceola, #Sioux, and #Cherokee counties in Iowa during the 2015 #birdflu outbreak.
#agworkers #agriculture #farmworkers #wagetheft
https://iowastartingline.com/2023/04/12/you-might-be-owed-money-if-you-worked-during-2015-iowa-bird-flu-outbreak/