Tag: Agriculture
Jonathan Shell Wins Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Race
Democrats’ losing streak in statewide elections for agriculture commissioner continues.
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Foreign exchange student excels at agriculture speech contests | News
GERONIMO — Last ye [...]
Cryptocurrency Bill Advances Out of U.S. House Agriculture Committee
However, the House Agriculture Committee markup sharply contrasted with the verbal scrum down the hall in the Financial Services Committee Thursday. W [...]
‘Pro crypto bill’ passes out of US House Agriculture Committee
Tact was pervasive in the United States House of Representatives Agricultural Committee’s consideration of the Financial Innovation and Technology for [...]
Agriculture Dept. to Invest $300 Million to Measure Greenhouse Emissions
The Agriculture Department said on Wednesday that it would establish a monitoring and data collection network to measure greenhouse gas emissions and [...]
States sue 3M, DuPont over ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water
Just outside of Bangor, Maine — the hometown of renowned horror author Stephen King — more than 500 students, faculty and staff arrive at Hermon High [...]
Agriculture Dept. Proposes Limits on Sugar and Salt in School Meals
The proposed guidelines are part of the Biden administration’s push to address childhood obesity, diabetes and other diet-related diseases.
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Low Mississippi, retail overstock trailers: Latest supply chain stress
The towboat Roberta Tabor pushes barges up the Mississippi River in Granite City, Illinois, US, on Friday, July 9, 2022. Grain transport is down from [...]
Impact on Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand: Nomura
Rice production in India has fallen by 5.6% year on year as of September in light of below-average monsoon rainfall, which has affected harvest, Nomur [...]
Yuguda, Obaseki, Adeosun advocate investment in agriculture to tackle forex shortage | The Guardian Nigeria News
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, has advocated massive investment in agriculture, especially oil palm, as strategi [...]
UN says the global food crisis is about affordability, not availability
Food prices remain stubbornly high as Russia's war in Ukraine drags on, exacerbating existing pressure from supply chain disruptions and climate chang [...]
The other reason why food prices are rising
The United Nations' worst-case scenario calculation is that global food prices will rise by an additional 8.5% by 2027.More expensive fertilizers are [...]
U.S. to give Cambodia $25 million in agriculture aid.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The U.S. government is giving $25 million in agriculture development aid over five years to projects in Cambodia to help allevi [...]
Meet the Canine Officers Guarding American Agriculture
DULLES, Va. — As a throng of travelers at Dulles International Airport elbowed their way to the baggage carousel on a recent sweltering afternoon, a f [...]
Why the global soil shortage threatens food, medicine and the climate
Soil can be considered black gold, and we're running out it.The United Nations declared soil finite and predicted catastrophic loss within 60 years."T [...]