Why Non-Farmers Should Care About John Deere’s Repair Memo
[ad_1] Michael Calore: Well, it’s sort of like being here in San Francisco and on one side of you, somebody’s talking about Bitcoin and on the other side of you,…
Right-to-Repair Advocates Question John Deere’s New Promises
[ad_1] Deere’s new agreement states that it will ensure that farmers and independent repair shops can subscribe to or buy tools, software, and documentation from the company or its authorized…
This Ancient Grain-Sowing Method Could Be Farming’s Future
[ad_1] Today, Ethiopian farmers are feeling the pressure to grow modern monoculture crops, thanks in part to a national push to become an agricultural powerhouse. “If you export grains, you…
One Solution to the Food Waste Problem: Eat Your Garbage
[ad_1] The villains of climate change tend be what we put out: carbon-spewing cars, soot-emitting power plants, farting cows. So it follows that we might make a dent in the…
A GMO Purple Tomato Is Coming to Grocery Aisles. Will the US Bite?
[ad_1] In December 2004, plant scientist Cathie Martin went to the greenhouse to check on her tomatoes. The tiny fruits, about the size of gumdrops, were still green. These miniature…
How Drought and War Are Really Affecting the Global Food Supply
[ad_1] Even if those differences average out nationally—possibly even globally, when you balance Southern Hemisphere production against the US and Western Europe, or the Americas against Central Europe and Asia—there’s…
How the Inflation Reduction Act Affects Food and Agriculture
[ad_1] Black farmers are “going to have to do some paperwork to document the discrimination that occurred, but we can work through that,” Lloyd Wright, a retired farmer and former…
Extreme Heat Is Becoming More Dangerous for Farmworkers
[ad_1] And it’s only going to get worse. In a 2020 paper, University of Washington researchers calculated that the average number of “days spent working in unsafe conditions” due to…
The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
[ad_1] The LSU report, though, became best known for its proposed solution, which focused on counteracting levees. The authors suggested that some water and mud be diverted out of the…