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Small Chinese County Reverses Desertification with Arduous Tree-Planting Method Across 240,000 Acres https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/small-chinese-county-reverses-desertification-with-arduous-tree-planting-method-…

Small Chinese County Reverses Desertification with Arduous Tree-Planting Method Across 240,000 Acres
"In my childhood, we had to cover our bowls while eating, otherwise they would be filled with sand," Wang told China Daily. 

On Moving My Parents Across the Country https://muz4now.com/2021/on-moving-my-parents-across-the-country/

On Moving My Parents Across the Country
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

AgriCruiser: An Open Source Agriculture Robot for Over-the-row Navigation
Kenny Truong, Yongkyu Lee, Jason Irie, Shivam Kumar Panda, Shahab Ahmad, Md. Mukhlesur Rahman, M. Khalid Jawed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25056

AgriCruiser: An Open Source Agriculture Robot for Over-the-row Navigation
We present the AgriCruiser, an open-source over-the-row agricultural robot developed for low-cost deployment and rapid adaptation across diverse crops and row layouts. The chassis provides an adjustable track width of 1.42 m to 1.57 m, along with a ground clearance of 0.94 m. The AgriCruiser achieves compact pivot turns with radii of 0.71 m to 0.79 m, enabling efficient headland maneuvers. The platform is designed for the integration of the other subsystems, and in this study, a precision spray…

Emergency power outages across Ukraine as Russia launches mass missile, drone attack: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/emergency-power-outages-across-ukraine.html

A report tied Iowa’s water pollution to agriculture. Then the money to promote it mysteriously disappeared https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/30/iowa-agriculture-water-pollution

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Lettuce Financial, which offers an accounting, payroll, benefits, and tax compliance service for one-person businesses, raised $28M led by Zeev (Elaine Pofeldt/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/elainepo…

Lettuce Financial, A Fin-Tech Platform Targeting Solopreneurs, Raises $28 Million And Acquires A Benefits Startup
Lettuce is expanding its AI-powered operating system and expects to offer improved health benefits through the acquisition of Besolo.

If you’d like U.S. forest lands to remain unpaved, speak now or forever hold your peace. 
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins just opened a 21-day public comment period on her proposal to ❌ rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule,
which has safeguarded 58 million acres of undeveloped national forest land from development and logging since 2001. 
Public lands at risk include 635,000 acres of “some of the most remote and ecologically intact landscapes in Los Padr…

Public Invited to Comment on Paving Los Padres National Forest
Forest Service accepting comments on rollback of Roadless Area Conservation Rule that protects undeveloped forest lands.

Cannabis-Legalisierung: Geringer Handlungsbedarf, Kritik an Onlineplattformen
Zur Auswirkung der Teillegalisierung gibt es erste Forschungsergebnisse. Der Umfang der Zweckentfremdung von Medizinalcannabis bleibt unbekannt.

Trump says Xi agrees to 'work together' with US on ending Russia's war against Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/30/trump-says-xi-agrees-to.html