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Meet the Woman Using Bitcoin Technology to Transform the Food Industry
Bitcoin is the most well-known application of a technology known as “blockchain”. It turns out this novel approach to data management has a host of other — perhaps more noble — uses.
NAFTA Will Be Replaced by the USMCA. How Does It Affect Agriculture?
NAFTA is dead, replaced by an updated, though broadly similar, trade pact: the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, or USMCA.
A New System Can Predict Crop Yields Better Than the USDA
Better predictions are, well, better.
FDA Will Now Tell You Where Contaminated Food Was Actually Sold
Also, there’s a very large recall of ground beef.
Colombia’s Coca Production Is Growing, Despite Efforts
The crop is larger than it’s ever been, and that’s bad news.
Tom Chappell’s Ramblers Way knits
Whether toothpaste or cardigans, Chappell is selling the idea that businesses should not exist just for the pursuit of profit.
Federal Court Rules in Favor of North Carolina’s Farmworker Unions
Farmworkers need unions more than ever.
Under the USDA’s Definition, 90 Percent of Iowa’s Farms Are “Family Farms”
The USDA thinks “family farm” means something different than you do.
When the cod stocks collapsed, the population also plummeted in the fishing villages around Newfoundland. But Fogo Island’s residents stayed put and reimagined a new way of moving forward.
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