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Farmers adapt to big rains but send trouble downstream
2015-02-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Minnesota Public Radio: As rains have gotten heavier, Minnesota farmers in recent years have been expanding a 150-year-old drainage system, pulling billions of gallons more water off soggy land and letting the state's corn and soybean fields thrive. They have laid thousands of additional miles of water-absorbing plastic tubes underneath their fields and, as a result, they have pushed upward the number of bushels per acre of the crops that dominate Minnesota's agricultural landscape. They have held their own and even flourished...
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USDA Invests $18 Million to Train New Farmers, Ranchers
2015-02-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - The US Department of Agriculture's Deputy Secretary Krysta Harden (USDA) has announced more than $18 million in grants to educate, mentor and enhance the sustainability of the next generation of farmers.
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Groceries Code Adjudicator’s Powers Welcomed by Farmers Union
2015-02-02 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - The decision to give The Groceries Code Adjudicator the power to fine retailers and their direct suppliers unfair trading practices is a positive step toward ensuring malpractice is eradicated from this part of the supply chain, said the National Farmers Union (NFU).
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Money coming for sugar farmers, says PM
2015-01-30 08:50:23| Sugar Industry News
BARBADOS\' FINANCIALLY-TROUBLED sugar industry will soon be getting an injection of cash.
What Do Farmers Think Climate Change?
2015-01-28 16:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: As a sociologist, J. Gordon Arbuckle Jr. spends a lot of time studying what shapes farmers' views and responses to climate change. It's a subject that has not gotten much attention, even as more research focuses on how to reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions and how to make farming more resilient to the impacts of extreme weather. "Our research so far has shown pretty clearly that although most farmers believe that climate change is occurring, a minority attribute it to human activity,"...
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