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The science is in, and this popular weedkiller really might be harmful
In vindication for herbicide critics, EPA says atrazine may harm animals
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Ethiopian farmers made a desert bloom again
Ethiopian farmers innovate to fight drought -- and win big.
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The way we make fertilizer sucks, but we haven’t had a good alternative … until now
Researchers may have found a way to create carbon-free fertilizer using sunlight and nanotech.
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Farm stands turn your backyard kale into cold, hard cash
Farm stands enable your neighbors to sell you farmers-market-quality produce with lemonade-stand convenience. But not all cities are psyched about them.
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Chick-fil-A is using a classic picture book about farming to brainwash kids
The scary thing is that this works, on some level.
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Agricultural training ground The Farm School is bucolic, educational, and stupid expensive
Students learn to grow organic vegetables, tend livestock, and manage forests. Only problem? The cost.
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Indoor farm in Brooklyn helps feed hundreds of families
In Bedford-Stuyvesant, an increasingly hip but historically low-income Brooklyn neighborhood, one food pantry is also an indoor farm. The New York Daily News visited the Child Development Support Corporation, where every Thursday morning clients harvest lettuce, bok choy, and collard greens that help feed hundreds of families. Right now the greens are all grown hydroponically […]
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Critical List: Trader Joe’s signs Fair Food agreement; newborn baby tapir
Trader Joe’s signed a Fair Food agreement with Coalition of Immokalee Workers that increased the price the company pays per pound of tomatoes. Energy Secretary Steven Chu defended the Energy Department’s loan guarantee program, after a independent review outlined possible improvements to the program’s oversight. The White House is pointing out that the review showed […]
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Insane Disney WWII propaganda video boosts Big Ag
Ever wonder why U.S. agriculture gets such huge subsidies for things like corn and wheat? It turns out it's because we're trying to smother Nazis under flour drifts and build a corn bridge from London to the Black Sea. At least, that appears to be the contention of Disney animators in 1942. This video illustrates […]