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Hurricane Harvey Is Decimating What Was Predicated to Be the Best Cotton Crop in Years

The rains are destroying the cotton crop from all sides.

by Dan Nosowitz
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California Tightens Restrictions on Controversial Pesticide Chlorpyrifos

Activists maintain their call for a complete ban of the insecticide.

by Dan Nosowitz
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How Safe Is Oilfield-Produced Water for Crop Irrigation? A New Study Wants to Find Out

Could oilfield-produced water, a byproduct of oil extraction, be the key to crop irrigation during droughts?

by Andrew Amelinckx
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Swiss Supermarket to Start Selling Bug Burgers

Interested in a mealworm falafel?

by Dan Nosowitz
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Farmers Say It’s Nearly Impossible to Follow Monsanto’s Dicamba Directions

Yet another lawsuit regarding Monsanto’s dicamba system. This one targets the insane 4,500-word instruction label.

by Dan Nosowitz
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Costa Rica Let a Juice Company Dump Their Orange Peels in the Forest”and It Helped

How a controversial experiment actually bore fruit.

by Dan Nosowitz
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Yes! A New Study Finds Moderate Beer Drinking May Lower Bad Cholesterol

There have been more than 60 prospective studies (meaning researchers follow test subjects over a period of time to determine the effects of the factors they're studying on the sub...

by Andrew Amelinckx
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These Milk and Sugar Pods Dissolve in Coffee and Could Replace Single-Serve Containers

Why use plastic when you can use sugar?

by Dan Nosowitz
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The Humane Society of the United States Is Taking on Factory Farming

The Humane Society of the United States is working with farmers and ranchers to promote humane farm practices. It turns out they’re not anti-animal agriculture as some in the industry claim.

by Andrew Amelinckx
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