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New Facebook group showcases the many hats farmers & ranchers wear each day
2015-07-07 00:06:30| Beef
A new Facebook group called Farm Hats is an online coffee shop that connects producers and consumers while sharing the agricultural story about where our food comes from. Check it out and take your own felfie to join in the fun. BEEF Daily read more
Silicon Valley struggles to pitch water-saving tech to farmers
2015-07-06 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Times: Olivier Jerphagnon needed a customer. So he drove toward the farmland north of Fresno, with his marketing director by his side. They came to convince farmers that PowWow Energy's Pump Monitor software can manage irrigation via smartphone. They spotted a prospect off the side of Highway 99: a work crew near a massive pump in an unmarked almond orchard. A tall Frenchman with a boyish face and rapid-fire sales pitch, Jerphagnon, 40, can be hard to understand on the best of days. This would not...
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A farmers market for energy: new portal hopes to increase transparency
2015-07-06 01:00:00| Power Technology
Cleantech startup Open Utility and renewable electricity supplier Good Energy are hoping to give customers more democratic access to renewable energy with a new online portal. To find out more, Heidi Vella-Starr caught up with Good Energys researc
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VIDEO: Zimbabwe's 'cellphone farmers'
2015-07-03 17:05:48| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Former hotelier Tapfumanei Shinya tells the BBC why managing his land over his mobile phone would never yield results.
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Do Organic Farmers Need Special Seeds And Money To Breed Them?
2015-07-02 23:32:10| Biotech - Topix.net
Rearranging veggie genes is big business, and we're not even talking about biotechnology. Private companies and university researchers spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year breeding better genetic varieties of food crops.
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