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The future of food: droughts, wrecked crops, and empty plates
Climate change could bring back the farm crisis.
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What’ll we eat in 2050? California farmers are placing bets.
What will we eat in 2050? California farmers are placing bets.
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Farm animals are about to get a lot more shots
Big pharma is trying to get farms off antibiotics by investing in vaccines.
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Democrats say they want to support farmers, but what the heck does that mean?
Everyone wants to preserve family farms, but it's easier said than done.
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‘Farmhouse porn’ will make you want to quit your job and raise cattle
There's not a Tumblr, yet. But there is a Pinterest board, brought to you by undercaffeinated editors at Modern Farmer.
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Squirrel population explosion: Less cute than it sounds
Because it was so warm last winter, there are now tons of squirrels around. And they're hungry.
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Swarms of robots could replace tractors on farms
Most farm machinery right now consists of huge machines. But in the future, farm machinery could be “a swarm of planting, tending, and harvesting robots running game theory and swarm behavior algorithms to help optimize every inch of arable space in a given field,” Popular Science reports. That’s one Iowan’s vision, anyway, and he’s created […]
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Monsanto WISHES it could make corn this cool
“Glass Gem” corn looks almost CGI, but it actually comes out of the ground that way. It’s the product of a small farm and a retro, handcrafted approach to agriculture — “genetic modification” from back when genetic modification meant painstaking generations of selective breeding.
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‘Antibiotic-free’ pork has the same rate of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
We really do try to Pollan it up and do the whole “eat food, not too much, mostly plants” bit. But “mostly plants” obviously means “sometimes bacon.” And maybe the farmers’ market wasn’t open, so we bought that bacon at the store. Oh, but it was good bacon! “Raised without antibiotics” bacon! That’s something, right? […]
