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Today’s quick hits, Dec. 23, 2024
Dec 22, 2024 · Vaden for deputy secretary: President-elect Trump said he would nominate Stephen Vaden, a member of his USDA landing team in 2017 who later was head of USDA’s legal shop, for Agriculture deputy secretary in his second term.(Trump) Producer got $215 million: USDA provided financial assistance to an average 1 million producers annually from fiscal 2019-23 in amounts ranging from a few dollars ...
Transforming the Delta | Food and Environment Reporting Network
Dec 20, 2024 · In the last third of the nineteenth century, the Delta was a place people flocked to, a land of opportunity for Blacks and whites alike. Cotton farming had begun before the Civil War, using enslaved labor, but only near the riverbanks. At the end of the war, 90 percent of the Delta in Mississippi remained forested, swampy wilderness—an unclaimed frontier.
FERN’s Friday Feed: The weeds are winning
Herbicide resistance is growing. Cue the novel weed-whacking strategies. MIT Technology Review “Since the 1980s, more and more plants have evolved to become immune to the biochemical mechanisms that herbicides leverage to kill them.
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Project 2025 plan for USDA: Repeal crop subsidies, move SNAP to …
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This app set out to fight pesticides. Once VC stepped in, the app ...
Oct 24, 2024 · Before 2013, many Silicon Valley investors were wary of agritech, the name given to the application of advanced technologies and computing to agriculture.Farming is more complex and fragmented than other sectors of the economy, in part due to the uncertainties of weather, environmental pressures, global markets, and local policies.
The rotten secret plaguing America’s grocery stores
Jun 6, 2024 · Suggitt argues that measurement and data reporting has increased since Molidor’s reports. Some of that comes from consumer demand that brands be more transparent; some of that comes from regulatory pressure, such as the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposal to increase what companies have to disclose when it comes to climate change impacts.
FERN’s Friday Feed: What happened to the Honeycrisp?
How Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre Serious Eats “The Honeycrisp apple redefined what an apple could be. It was different from any other apple most American shoppers had encountered before, especially for consumers who frequented conventional grocery stores rather than farmers markets, where tastier heirloom varieties could be found even during the heyday of the Red Delicious.
Report: agriculture runoff is leading cause of water pollution in the …
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