How climate change is driving Australian farmers mad
Everybody has to eat, but for all their efforts farmers can easily lose a year's worth of crops due to ...
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How feeding pigs with leftovers can save the rainforest
In 2001 a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the United Kingdom was traced back to a farmer that illegally fed uncooked ...
Bacterial infections turns amoebae into the world’s tiniest farmers
In 2011 the Queller-Strassmann lab, then at Rice University, made a surprising announcement in Nature Letters. They had been collecting ...
Extra salted: California’s almond industry is being crippled by salty ground water
Almonds use a lot of water — about one gallon per nut. As their surface water has been cut off, ...
And then I threw it on the ground: first signs of farming come from the middle east, some 23,000 years ago
Who, where and when "invented" farming? A new study pushes back the advent of farming by a couple of thousand ...
Biggest indoor farm is 100 times more productive than conventional agriculture
An inspired entrepreneur, Shigeharu Shimamura, took an old semiconductor factory that was abandoned following the 2011 Japan disaster and turned ...
Headless chicken solution envisions Matrix-style farming
Each year, billions of chickens are raised all over the world with the sole purpose of providing meat at the ...