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🥪 Wheat that makes its own fertilizer may reduce pollution, offer lower costs for farmers
#wheat

Wheat that makes its own fertilizer may reduce pollution, offer lower costs for farmers
Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have developed wheat plants that stimulate the production of their own fertilizer, opening the path toward less air and water pollution worldwide and lower costs for farmers.

"From compost to crops: banana peels show surprising power as eco-friendly fertilizer"
#Bananas #Compost

From compost to crops: banana peels show surprising power as eco-friendly fertilizer | The Optimist Daily
Banana peels could help crops grow taller and stronger, offering a natural alternative to synthetic fertilizers, new research finds.

Senator Baldwin:
Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds.
A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada.
Those have shot up because of tariffs.
About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage.
This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.
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Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social)
Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

Hmmm, he want want to chat with farmers on this one.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tariffs/article/trump-says-he-will-put-very-severe-tariffs-on-canadian-fertilizer-if-needed/

🌾 Scientists show how to grow more nutritious rice that uses less fertilizer
#rice

Scientists show how to grow more nutritious rice that uses less fertilizer
The cultivation of rice—the staple grain for more than 3.5 billion people around the world—comes with extremely high environmental, climate and economic costs.

Cyberattack on Russian port operator aimed to disrupt coal, fertilizer shipments https://therecord.media/cyberattack-on-russian-port-operator

"They know how to eat methane,”
said Josh Silverman, the company’s CEO and founder.
“We’re not creating something new.
We’re not teaching them to do something they don’t normally do.
They’ve evolved for a million years to do this.”
https://www.w…

These pink microbes could help reduce planet-warming methane emissions
Microscopic organisms are being deployed to capture methane from sources such as farms and landfills, with the potential for reuse as fertilizer and fish food.

Good Morning #Canada
Many people, that includes you, are worried about #Skynet assuming control of all military systems, but what happens when it starts harvesting our crops? Canadian agricultural scientists are blindly charging ahead in their efforts to fill our farms with robots. It started with self-driving tractors pulling conventional equipment and evolved to fully autonomous vehicles that plow, plant, fertilizer, weed, and harvest. Organic farming is seeing the biggest benefits as robots can hand weed 2 hectares per day, eliminating herbicides.... and farm workers. Almost 15% of Canada’s dairy farms use robotic milking cubicles where cows enter when they need milking, with no cold human hands involved. IMO, using robots to replace hard back breaking labour or tedious driving of equipment up and down a farm field is a good use of technology. But I hope the tech is not priced out of the reach of small farms.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Robotics #Farming
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2024/08/these-self-driving-weed-cutting-robots-transform-the-future-of-farming-says-u-of-g-researcher/