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The Future is Now: We’re Creating Energy from Tomato Waste
Ketchup AND powering your smartphone, theoretically, maybe, at some point in the future!
Agricultural Aftershocks: How Japan is Combatting a Decline in Farming
Still reeling from the 2011 nuclear disaster, Japan also faces an aging farmer population. Now, the private sector is offering solutions to the nation’s food-security fears.
USDA Gives America a Failing Grade In Eating Well
But we’re doing better than before.
US Farmers Gearing Up To Start Exporting To Cuba
Farmers are basically standing on the beaches of Key West, gazing longingly towards Havana.
Still Life with Mass Hysteria: Are GMOs Really That Bad?
If consumers really understood GMO technology – and its potential to reduce malnutrition and pesticide use worldwide – would we still be so worked up?
The Origin of the Araucana Chicken is a Murky, Fascinating Mystery
Theories place it as the lynchpin of a mass migration across the oceans.
This Closed-Cycle Method Could Dramatically Lower Dairy Farms’ Energy Use
The grains feed the cows and the cows feed the grain.
A Twenty-Something’s Quest to Distribute His Neighbors’ Backyard Fruit
Orlando may seem an unlikely breeding ground for agricultural innovation, but one budding nonprofit is challenging that notion in an unorthodox way.
#ChickenWeek Video of the Day: Cat Adopts So Many Chicks
So many!
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