FARM NEWS - SEED DAILY

Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved food safety systems at facilities of Upside Foods and Good Meat, a spokesperson for the agency told AFP Wednesd...

Shock to the crop system

Jun 18, 2023 (SPX)

These production shocks are a big concern in terms of food stability and many crops in the United States-such as corn, cotton, soybeans, and wheat - are all exp...

Climate warming pits geese against farmers in Finland

Jun 17, 2023 (AFP)

"There's probably around 20 to 30 hectares behind me, it is easily eaten in a day," cattle farmer Kari Pekonen tells AFP. In Finland's eastern Karelia region, h...

Canadian Prairies farmers try to adapt to a warming world

Jun 13, 2023 (AFP)

But it's unclear, they are the first to admit, if their slogging will bear fruit. Squatting in the middle of a canola field in Alberta, on the western edge of C...

Seaweed farming may help tackle global food insecurity

Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)

Producing and selling seaweed could boost incomes for farmers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), particularly in coastal regions of Africa and Southea...

Using photosynthesis for living on Mars while making space travel sustainable

Jun 09, 2023 (SPX)

In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists assess a new technique which could convert renewable, green energy from outside the Earth's atmosphere...

Indonesia, Malaysia to fight against EU palm oil 'discrimination'

Jun 08, 2023 (AFP)

The European Parliament adopted the new legislation in April that will ban imports deemed to be driving deforestation, throwing the bloc's trade muscle behind a...

California's honey bees await the famous sunshine

Jun 06, 2023 (AFP)

But beekeepers say lingering low temperatures and gray skies in the Golden State are keeping the insects indoors -- and if it doesn't get sunny soon, the bumper...

Strawberry boycott leaves Spain's farmers in a jam

Jun 05, 2023 (AFP)

The issue touches on increasingly-scarce water resources in the strawberry-growing heartlands of southern Spain where a regional government plan to legalise ill...

How chocolate could counter climate change

Jun 04, 2023 (AFP)

The substance, dubbed biochar, is produced by heating the cocoa husks in an oxygen-free room to 600 degrees Celsius (1,112 Fahrenheit). The process locks in gre...

US advances trade dispute with Mexico over anti-GMO policy

Jun 03, 2023 (AFP)

The consultations, under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), come after Mexico announced plans to phase out the use of genetically engineered cor...

Taiwan tribe despairs as drought shrinks bamboo crop

Jun 02, 2023 (AFP)

Generations of the Tsou tribe have lived off Alishan township's bamboo forests, which Vayayana says were planted by his forefathers and typically harvested in A...

Firms withheld pesticide toxicity data from EU: study

Jun 01, 2023 (AFP)

The nine studies, which looked at how different nine pesticide chemical compounds affected the developmental neurotoxicity (DNT) in rats, were however shared wi...

What's in wine? Campaigners want ingredients on the bottle

May 31, 2023 (AFP)

Wine can contain a wide array of additives to control taste, strength and appearance: sulfur, sugar, egg white, dried fish bladders, enzymes from a pig or cow p...

Planet-friendly farming takes root in drought-hit Tunisia

May 28, 2023 (AFP)

Now he grows all the food he needs and has become a pioneer of the style of ecological agriculture that is gaining fans worldwide, including in his North Africa...

SmartSat targets Australian agricultural intelligence from space

May 24, 2023 (SPX)

The name Maya Nula, which translates to "eyes here, there, everywhere" in the Dharug language of the Eora nation, aims to create an agricultural intelligence ca...

EU's next food fight: regulating gene-edited crops

May 22, 2023 (AFP)

Confronted with a deteriorating situation, divided European Union decision-makers are debating new rules for genetically modified crops. Last year's drought rav...

The Noah's Ark for plants beneath the English countryside

May 19, 2023 (AFP)

The world's largest seed bank, located in the sleepy countryside south of London, is in a race against time because two out of five plant species are threatened...

Gaza beekeeper tends hives by restive border

May 19, 2023 (AFP)

"The bees die from the gases, the rockets and dust as a result of the war," said the 29-year-old, dressed in a protective white bee suit. Ahead of World Bee Day...

The number of the world's farms to halve by 2100, study shows

May 16, 2023 (SPX)

Published in the journal Nature Sustainability, the study is the first to track the number and size of farms year-over-year, from the 1960s and projecting throu...