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Area farmers wait, hope
2013-06-23 06:39:49| Agriculture - Topix.net
In most Ohio and Michigan fields, planting has been on schedule, soil has had adequate rain, crops are coming in nicely, and the recent drought is history.
During Record Drought, Frackers Outcompete Farmers for Water Supplies
2013-06-21 18:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: The impacts of 2013's severe drought are apparent across the nation in forests, on farms and on once snowy peaks. Meanwhile, the oil and gas industry is demanding unprecedented amounts of water for hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking. Fourth-generation Colorado farmer Kent Peppler told the Associated Press (AP) that he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he cant afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep-pocketed energy companies...
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Australia: Climate change means tough time for Northern Rivers farmers
2013-06-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Northern Star: FARMERS across the Northern Rivers are facing a future of higher temperatures, more pests and less ground water, warns a report released this week by the Australian Climate Commission. And these are only some of the risks facing the agricultural sector detailed in the report Critical Decade 2013. Some main points from the report The nation's highly respected Climate Commissioner Professor Will Steffen described the risks to the farming sector as "substantial". "Farmers are on the frontline of...
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Farmers Call for Land Agents to Help British Farming
2013-06-21 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Rural land agents must help champion the tools farmers need to be able to put more British food on more British plates, NFU President Peter Kendall said yesterday (20 June).
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Grow-at-home mushroom kits create DIY fungi farmers
2013-06-17 20:21:57| Grocery - Topix.net
College students Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora were just a few months short of careers in corporate banking when they learned in a class lecture that it was possible to grow gourmet mushrooms on leftover coffee grounds.
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