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Is there really such a thing as low-carbon beef?
Only one There are many ways to describe a piece of beef. Stroll through the meat counter of a US…
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Can synthetic palm oil help save the world’s rainforests?
Via Zoom, Kelleher showed off a bluish photo of Xylome’s proprietary yeast strain, which grew from an oil-producing species called…
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Self-Driving Cars Here — If You Know Where To Look
Self-driving car seems to be an idea that is always several years away from reality. But maybe we haven’t looked…
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John Deere’s self-driving tractors debate AI in agriculture
Deere & Co. helped mechanize agriculture in 1837 with the first commercially successful steel plow. On Tuesday, the company unveiled…
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Growing peppers on the ISS is just the beginning of farming in space
The sensory experience of growing a productive tree can also help reduce the psychological impact of long-term space travel. There’s…
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Antibiotic use in US farm animals has decreased. Now it’s not
That is arguably the best the US can do, especially with the pro-business Trump administration coming to power. But the…
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Your rooftop garden can become a working solar powered farm
Long territory cats, weather vanes, and the occasional miser, the roofs are increasingly thick with solar panels. Rooftops of homes…
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Limit your passion for food technology
There are two problems with this approach. First, the promises of technologies to reduce emissions from agriculture often far exceed…
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Prairie livestock producers facing shortage of feed, water as winter sets in
The implications of final summer time’s searing drought are being felt on farms and ranches throughout the Prairies, the…
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