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US farmers caught in trade war with China
Jul 08, 2018 (AFP)
The Illinois soybean grower is more optimistic than others that things will work out, but many farmers in the Midwestern farm belt are not so sure, following th...
Cherry picking: China looks to replace US farm goods in trade war
Jul 04, 2018 (AFP)
But this alone may not be enough, said Zhao Xiaoyu, a Beijing fruit merchant, who believes Chinese consumers will be biting into domestic cherries and lower qua...
Ancestral people of Chaco Canyon likely grew their own food
Jul 04, 2018 (SPX)
A multidisciplinary team of experts from the University of Cincinnati determined that the sandy soils of Chaco Canyon were not too salty to grow crops such as m...
Iraq's treasured amber rice crop devastated by drought
Jul 03, 2018 (AFP)
For the first time, this season Kazaali has not planted the treasured amber rice local to Diwaniyah province. Facing an unusually harsh drought, the agriculture...
Utah soil's slippery grip on nutrients
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
Something different is happening in Salt Lake's soils, according to postdoctoral researcher Rose Smith, lead author of the new study. Several natural processes ...
Study links shrinking bee population, climate change
Jun 28, 2018 (UPI)
To better understand how global warming affects bee health, scientists from Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanic Garden exposed bee nests in Arizona ...
Mandatory labels reduce GMO food fears
Jun 28, 2018 (SPX)
Led by Jane Kolodinsky, an applied economist in UVM's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the study compared levels of consumer opposition to GMO foods in...
US trial over Roundup cancer link set to open
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
The stakes are high for Monsanto, which could face massive losses should it have to pay out damages over the product, whose main ingredient is glyphosate, a sub...
Nestle suspended from 'sustainable' palm oil body
Jun 28, 2018 (AFP)
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, a non-profit group that counts members from across the palm oil supply chain, suspended Nestle Wednesday and revoked the...
Mesopotamians were drinking beer from individual vessels 3,500 years ago
Jun 27, 2018 (UPI)
But new research suggests that as early as 3,500 years ago, Mesopotamians were drinking beer out of individual vessels, just like modern pint drinkers. The bioc...
China lifts ban on import of British beef
Jun 27, 2018 (AFP)
"China has today lifted its longstanding ban on exports of beef from the UK, in a landmark move for British producers estimated to be worth 250 million ($329 mi...
China drops tariffs on soybeans for some Asian nations
Jun 26, 2018 (AFP)
As part of the Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement with neighbours Bangladesh, India, Laos, South Korea and Sri Lanka, Beijing will drop tariffs to zero on several imp...
Industrial microbes could feed cattle, pigs and chicken with less damage to the environment
Jun 26, 2018 (SPX)
Protein-rich microbes, produced in large-scale industrial facilities, are likely to increasingly replace traditional crop-based feed. A new study now published ...
Palm oil 'decimating' wildlife, solutions elusive: report
Jun 26, 2018 (AFP)
Habitat loss due to expanding plantations has pushed some of the planet's most iconic species -- including orangutans, tigers and some gibbons -- to the brink o...
Early detection of 'olive tree leprosy' with drones
Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)
Using high-tech cameras that detect heat and the electromagnetic spectrum from X-ray to radio waves, researchers were able to spot diseased trees that, on the g...
China lifts French beef ban as PM ends visit
Jun 25, 2018 (AFP)
The beef ban was imposed over a decade ago as Beijing started closing off its markets to all European imports, and later to US beef imports, in the wake of the ...
China dog meat fest opens as S. Korea goes the other way
Jun 22, 2018 (AFP)
The annual Yulin dog meat celebration opened without a hitch on Thursday, a day after a South Korean court announced it had ruled that the slaughtering of dogs ...
France eases rules on wine stocks to mitigate weather risks
Jun 22, 2018 (AFP)
The move comes after a series of fierce hailstorms battered fields across France in May, the latest in a series of weather-related losses that many growers attr...
Monsanto faces first US trial over Roundup cancer link
Jun 21, 2018 (AFP)
The stakes are high for Monsanto, which could face massive losses should it have to pay out damages over the product, whose main ingredient is glyphosate, a sub...
Indonesia takes a bite out of food waste one wedding at a time
Jun 20, 2018 (AFP)
Called a Blessing to Share, the service supplies leftover wedding dishes to some of the poorest members of society in the sprawling capital. Even as it struggle...
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