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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SeekAndDestroy
Agriculture:
🎵 Bodhidharma
#Agriculture
https://agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/track/bodhidharma
https://open.spotify.com/track/1NoYnWzMQ1mY67jo7gDakq

Study Shows Plant-Based Agroforestry Could Double Rural Income in Brazil https://vegconomist.com/agriculture-agribusiness/study-shows-plant-based-agroforestry-could-double-rural-income-brazil/

Study Shows Plant-Based Agroforestry Could Double Rural Income in Brazil - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new study presented at the COP30 summit in Belém has found that shifting from livestock farming to plant-based agroforestry can significantly increase the

Concordia researchers are transforming urban living in Montreal by modeling a sustainable solar-powered 15-minute city, enhancing community bonds and reducing greenhouse gas emissions through local agriculture and green transportation.
https://www.enn.com/articles/…

Genetic Mutation Could Pave the Way for Self-Fertilizing Cereal Crops and a Revolution in Agriculture https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/genetic-mutation-could-pave-the-way-for-self-fertilizing-cereal-crops-and-a-r…

Genetic Mutation Could Pave the Way for Self-Fertilizing Cereal Crops and a Revolution in Agriculture
In laboratory experiments, the researchers successfully engineered this change in barley and found that the mechanism worked there as well.

Microsoft agrees to buy a record 2.85M soil carbon credits from Indigo Carbon linked to regenerative US agriculture; a source values the deal at $171M-$228M (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate…

CSBP Grow Better podcast
We developed this podcast to help share knowledge with growers on leading crop nutrition, sustainable agriculture and other relevant local and global issues impacting the agricultural industry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/csbp-g

Its nice to encouraging stories like this - and exciting.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agricu…

Its nice to encouraging stories like this - and exciting.
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agricu…

"Insect-Friendly Agriculture Helps UK Watercress Farm Thrive"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Farming

Insect-Friendly Agriculture Helps UK Watercress Farm Thrive | Happy Eco News
Insect-friendly agriculture methods have sustained The Watercress Company's UK farms for 25 pesticide-free years, supporting 1.7 billion insects across 16 hectares. The approach protects rare chalk streams while producing 0.5 million weekly bags of residue-free watercress. The company supplies 80 percent of UK retail watercress, proving chemical-free farming works commercially.

Trump to unveil US$12 billion in long-awaited farm aid | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/commodities/agriculture/trump-unveil-long-awaited-farm-aid-program

Cloud Atlas hackers target Russian agriculture sector ahead of industry forum https://therecord.media/cloud-atlas-targets-russian-agriculture

Agriculture Secretary Brooke
Rollins gave a candid message to Americans about the continued impasse and concerns that millions of people could soon miss out on food benefits.
“My message to America is, first, the fact that your government is failing you, right now,”
said Rollins, whose department oversees the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.

Mike Johnson Steps In After Trump Official Tells Americans: 'We Have Failed You'
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins gave a candid message to Americans about the shutdown – a little too candid for the House speaker.

“All my life I’ve wanted to ‘see’ into the soil,” he said. “Maybe now we can.”
Cheap “soilsmology” can apparently let farmers find out what's going on in their soil without disruptive coring or plowing. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/<…

US Department of Agriculture says no food aid benefits will be issued next month (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-department-agriculture-says-no-food-aid-benefits-will-be-issued-next-month-2025-10-26/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p34#a251026p34

Investigation Finds Over 300 Industrial Agriculture Lobbyists Participated In COP30 Climate Talks https://plantbasednews.org/news/environment/industrial-agriculture-lobbyists-cop30-climate-talks/

Investigation Finds Over 300 Industrial Agriculture Lobbyists Participated In COP30 Climate Talks
More than 300 industrial agriculture lobbyists attended this year’s COP30 event in Brazil, according to a new investigation

🌼🌷🏵️ Q&A: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds and promote biodiversity
#agriculture

Q&A: Recruiting flowers to combat weeds and promote biodiversity
Rebecca Stup '23, MS '26, is a master's student in the lab of Antonio DiTommaso, a weed ecologist and associate dean and director of the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station (Cornell AES). DiTommaso's lab has been exploring planting wildflower strips along farmland as a strategy to increase biodiversity, attract pollinators and combat weeds.

These 2 reports are related:
‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/10…

These 2 reports are related:
‘Even the animals seem confused’: a retreating Kashmir glacier is creating an entire new world in its wake
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/10…

I somehow missed that Agriculture finally dropped a full length album but its immediately one of my favorite metal albums
https://agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/album/the-spiritual-sound

Stop rainforest destruction! Stop Fonterra using palm kernel! #environment

Is diesel behind the US takeover of Venezuela?
Diesel is the main fuel used in road transport, mining and quarrying, and agriculture. Fuel oil is used in shipping but with the regulations of 2020 on sulphur emissions, it is closer to diesel in character and this in turn impacts on the scarcity of diesel.
The US has to import the crude oil to make diesel. Its own crude is too light
Venezuela's oil is very heavy.

The Trump administration announced it is #suspending $129m in federal benefit payments to #Minnesota amid allegations of widespread fraud in the state.
The secretary of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Brooke Rollins, shared a letter on Friday on social media that was addressed to Minnesota’s governor,…

California is turning drought-stricken farmland into a massive solar opportunity.
The Westlands Water District in the San Joaquin Valley plans to generate 21 gigawatts of solar energy on fallowed agricultural land. It's a win-win: preserving what farmland remains viable while putting dry, empty fields to work producing clean energy.
The project includes battery storage and community benefits too.

21 Gigawatts of Solar for California Land That Can No Longer Be Used for Agriculture - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. There’s a water district in San Joaquin Valley in California where there’s empty land that “can no longer sustain irrigated agriculture.” The Westlands Water District board of directors have decided on a plan for this land. They are going to ... [continued]

"Congo Reforestation Solutions: Student Group Plants 2,000 Trees to Fight Deforestation"
#Congo #Trees #Deforestation

Congo Reforestation Solutions: Student Group Plants 2,000 Trees to Fight Deforestation | Happy Eco News
Congo reforestation solutions developed by Green Congo Initiative have planted 2,000 trees across eastern provinces. The student-led organization trains youth in environmental conservation while addressing annual forest loss of 500,000 hectares. Community-based programs include climate education, sustainable agriculture, and native species planting to restore degraded ecosystems.

Underlings are so annoying!
Sometimes you can make this problem go away by exploiting weak labor power (see: factories, agriculture, sanitation).
Sometimes you can create a toxic org culture when information •only• flows down the hierarchy, so no pushback can ever reach your sensitive ears. (Public school administrations are rife with this.)
Sometimes you can do it by making your catastrophic failures look like a string of successes to the people up the chain. (Large corporations are swimming in this.)
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‘Like wastelands’: Sri Lanka tea plantations suffer Cyclone Ditwah’s wrath | Agriculture News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/10/like-wastelands-sri-lanka-tea-plantations-suffer-cyclone-ditwahs-wrath?traffic_source=rss

« Écologistes : l’épuration qui vient »
https://reporterre.net/Ecologistes-l-epuration-qui-vient

« Écologistes : l'épuration qui vient »
La désignation de plus en plus forte des écologistes comme ennemis de l'agriculture et de la nation française préfigure une potentielle épuration, prévient le journaliste Nicolas Legendre dans cette tribune.

Beyond technology and biology, he has a passion for agriculture, the science and beauty of which have encouraged him to start his own vegetable garden and plant dozens of fruit-bearing trees with fragrant and succulent, sweet and sour fruits.

Kennst du unser #Solawi #CSX Follower-Startpaket?
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Solawi + X - Mastodon Starter Pack
Hier sammeln wir Solawis und andere gemeinschaftsgetragene Projekte und Organisationen (CSX) im Fediverse. CS steht für Community Supported = Gemeinschaftsgetragen. CSA = Community Supported Agriculture = Solidarische Landwirtschaft, kurz Solawi. CSX steht für unterschiedliche Organisationen im Sinne des Gemeinschaftsgetragenen Unternehmertums, eine graduell marktunabhängige Wirtschaftsform. Betriebskosten werden durch eine Umlagefinanzierung seitens der Verbraucher:innen gedeckt statt durch…

"What will be the condition of the world our children inherit? What will we feed them if we destroy the ecosystems on which agriculture depends? In short, we can’t nurture healthy people on a sick planet."
—Mary Evelyn Tucker, Co-Director of Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology, in her piece in the new issue of the YDS journal Reflections

The Gardener's Lodge
Through conversations with experts, industry leaders, and passionate enthusiasts, discover fresh insights into horticulture, gardening, agriculture, and ecology...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/growing-media/…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin next week
to block nutrition assistance funding for states led by Democrats
that have not provided data on fraud in the program, Secretary Brooke Rollins told President Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday.
USDA sought data from states earlier this year related to their administration of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits, Rollins said Tuesday.
She added the data was needed to address fraud t…

🐿️ Midwest Farms Are Going Nuts
#agriculture

Midwest Farms Are Going Nuts
A shift toward growing chestnuts, pecans and walnuts is reviving soil once exhausted by dreary corn and soy.

"Six surprising places solar power is taking off"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Six surprising places solar power is taking off
From rooftops and roads to farmers' fields and the open sea, solar power can already be captured almost anywhere. The next frontier? Harnessing the sun's energy in space to power life on Earth.

Profluent, which wants to use AI for protein design in drug discovery, raised $106M led by Bezos Expeditions and Altimeter, bringing its total funding to $150M (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/20

Jeff Bezos Is Backing An AI Startup Aiming To Make Proteins Programmable
Profluent has raised $106 million to scale up use of its AI models for biology in drug development and agriculture.

A decade of transformation: Regeneration International now connects 700 organizations worldwide, driving the shift to regenerative agriculture. Their 5th People's Food Summit reached 10 million people, while new initiatives expand across Africa and Latin America. Now launching a certification standard and training course to help farmers transition away from harmful chemicals toward practices that heal soils and communities.

"Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines"
#Philippines #Bats #Animals

Six new tube-nosed bats described from the Philippines
Researchers have recently described six new-to-science species of tube-nosed bats from the Philippines, named after their unique nostrils that protrude from the snout. All the specimens were collected from either primary or secondary forests, currently threatened by mining and shifting agriculture, the authors write in a new study. “These bats are notoriously elusive, so the […]

Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must to continue to fund SNAP, -- the nation’s biggest food aid program, -- using contingency funds during the government shutdown.
The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown.
The program serves about 1 in 8 America…

Judges order the Trump administration to use contingency funds for SNAP payments during the shutdown
The rulings Friday came a day before the payments were due to be halted. SNAP is used by 1 in 8 Americans to buy groceries and is a major piece of the nation’s social safety net.

💪 Increasing plant diversity in agricultural grasslands boosts yields, reducing reliance on fertilizer
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-diversity-agricultural-grasslands-boosts-yields.html

Increasing plant diversity in agricultural grasslands boosts yields, reducing reliance on fertilizer
Higher plant diversity in agricultural grasslands increases yields with lower inputs of nitrogen fertilizer. That is the headline finding of a landmark, international study led by Trinity College Dublin that paints a promising picture for more sustainable agriculture.

California is turning a water crisis into a clean energy opportunity.
The Westlands Water District plans to build up to 21 GW of solar on farmland that's been fallowed due to water shortages in the San Joaquin Valley. The project aims to preserve agriculture viability while creating new jobs for farmworkers in the renewable energy sector.

California water district plans up to 21 GW of solar on fallowed farmland
A California water district has adopted a long-term plan to develop up to 21 GW of solar generation on agricultural land fallowed due to water shortages.

Stop Octopus Farming! #AnimalRights

STOP Octopus Farming
We, the undersigned, pledge to boycott and not visit The Canary Islands until the octopus farm proposal is dropped and octopuses are recognised as sentient beings in Gran Canaria. The Spanish company Nueva Pescanova has invested €65 million to build the world's first commercial octopus farm in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. As the first demand of the Plant Based Treaty states, we should not be building new slaughterhouses or animal farms but relinquishing animal agriculture facilit…

When the Trump administration began freezing federal funding for climate and ecosystem research, one of the programs hit hard was ours: the U.S. Geological Survey’s Climate Adaptation Science Centers.
These nine regional centers help fish, wildlife, water, land – and, importantly, people – adapt to rising global temperatures and other climate shifts.
The centers have been helping to track invasive species, protect water supplies and make agriculture more sustainable in the face of…

From invasive species tracking to water security – what’s lost with federal funding cuts at US Climate Adaptation Science Centers
The people who manage America’s aquifers, wetlands, shorelines and recreation areas rely on federal science as they face new and rising risks in a changing climate.

"Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at COP30"
#COP30 #ClimateSummit #Greenwashing

Look Out for These 8 Big Ag Greenwashing Terms at This Year’s Climate Summit
Food and farming companies at COP30 in Brazil will claim agriculture is the solution to climate change — even though food systems drive a third of global warming.

🍛 From space science to dinner plates: Reimagining the future of farming indoors
#food

From space science to dinner plates: Reimagining the future of farming indoors
Extreme weather events, from heavy rainfall to heat waves and droughts, are increasingly threatening crop yields globally, so new solutions are needed for agriculture.

South Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much #SouthAfrica…

South Africa's coal mines are leaking methane, and no one knows how much
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It is released from natural sources (like wetlands) and human activities (coal mining, and oil and gas production). It is also emitted by agriculture (especially livestock and rice paddies), and decomposing waste in garbage dumps.

The prospect of families not receiving food aid has deeply concerned states run by both parties.
Democratic lawmakers have written to Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins requesting to use contingency funds to cover the bulk of next month’s food aid benefits.
But a USDA memo that surfaced Friday says
“contingency funds are not legally available to cover regular benefits.”
The document says the money is reserved for such things such as helping people in disaster areas…

"Insect-Friendly Agriculture Helps UK Watercress Farm Thrive"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Insects #Farming<…

Insect-Friendly Agriculture Helps UK Watercress Farm Thrive | Happy Eco News
Insect-friendly agriculture methods have sustained The Watercress Company's UK farms for 25 pesticide-free years, supporting 1.7 billion insects across 16 hectares. The approach protects rare chalk streams while producing 0.5 million weekly bags of residue-free watercress. The company supplies 80 percent of UK retail watercress, proving chemical-free farming works commercially.

Analysis: Sustainable Diets Missing From Nearly 99% of Climate Media Coverage https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/analysis-sustainable-diets-missing-from-nearly-99-of-climate-media-coverage-2025-11-24/

Analysis: Sustainable Diets Missing From Nearly 99% of Climate Media Coverage
Center for Biological Diversity: Only 3% of 10,000+ Articles Mentioned Meat, Animal Agriculture

"Global peatlands revealed as critical frontier in fight against climate change"
#Peatlands #Environment #Climate

Global peatlands revealed as critical frontier in fight against climate change
Global peatlands—huge expanses of partially decayed vegetation—store more carbon than is naturally present in the atmosphere but are under pressure from drainage-based agriculture. New research from Murdoch University reveals that peatlands present a major opportunity to arrest natural greenhouse gas emissions.