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Britain’s Pig Farmers Disapointed as Supermarket Choose Imported Gammon
2015-12-21 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Most retailers have let their customers down by offering an abysmal selection of British gammons this Christmas. Worst performer in NPA’s GammonWatch survey across 68 towns and cities, is Asda.
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Farmers Urged to Check Animals in Extreme South Australian Heat
2015-12-21 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
AUSTRALIA - Livestock and poultry owners have been reminded to take special care of their stock over the coming days of extreme heat, as animals suffer from the heat as well.
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Delta farmers reach voluntary metering goal for irrigation wells
2015-12-19 03:16:17| Waste Management - Topix.net
The latest installations brought to 1,820 the number of wells that have been equipped with flow meters to help members of the Delta Sustainable Water Resource Task Force determine how best to manage the alluvial aquifer that supplies most of the irrigation water used by Delta farmers. The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said farmers have installed flow meters on the 10 percent of the permitted irrigation wells needed in each of the 19 Delta counties to meet a goal set to avoid mandatory monitoring of the wells.
Scientists peg Anthropocene to first farmers
2015-12-19 00:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: A new analysis of the fossil record shows that a deep pattern in nature remained the same for 300 million years. Then, 6,000 years ago, the pattern was disrupted -- at about the same time that agriculture spread across North America. "When early humans started farming and became dominant in the terrestrial landscape, we see this dramatic restructuring of plant and animal communities," said University of Vermont biologist Nicholas Gotelli, an expert on statistics and the senior author on the new...
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Can the Paris agreement protect poor farmers from climate change?
2015-12-14 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Purity Gachanga is one small-scale farmer who is beating climate change. On her several acres of land in Embu North district in central Kenya, she keeps cows and goats that produce milk, grows trees for fodder, and collects water to irrigate her food crops in a pond filled with tilapia fish. Since she started out in the 1970s, she has overcome increasingly erratic rainfall by using new technologies and trying out different crops and trees. She even turns her animal manure into biogas, harnessing...
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