Your Rooftop Garden Could Be a Solar-Powered Working Farm
Long the territory of cats, weather vanes, and the occasional fiddler, roofs are growing thick with solar panels. A home or business rooftop is an ideal…
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Curb Your Food Tech Enthusiasm
There are two problems with this approach. First, the promises of technologies meant to reduce emissions from agriculture often far exceed what they can…
ADM Buys Stake in Startup Farmers Business Network
Archer Daniels Midland Co.
invested in Farmers Business Network and announced a partnership with the…
The Next Big Thing for RNA? Fixing Moldy Food
Of all the fungi out there, Botrytis cinerea is the one that keeps farmers up at night. The scuzzy fungus has a voracious appetite. It’ll happily munch…
Alibaba Founder Jack Ma Touring Dutch Research Institutes to Pursue Interest in Agriculture…
Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma has been touring Dutch research institutions to pursue his interests in agriculture technology, Hong Kong newspaper South China…
CISA says BlackMatter ransomware group behind recent attacks on agriculture companies | ZDNet
CISA, the FBI and NSA officially implicated the BlackMatter…
Growing Crops Under Solar Panels? Now There’s a Bright Idea
Heavy precipitation that can damage crops is also on the rise, since a warmer atmosphere holds more moisture. “In times when there is extreme heat or extreme…
Another Global Pandemic Is Spreading—Among Pigs
A disease outbreak blossoms in China. Exactly how it emerges, far from the eyes of any surveilling scientist, no one can quite explain. It spreads with…
How Healthy Is a Farm’s Soil? Check How Active Its Microbes Are
But industrial agriculture is endangering these microbes. When farmers focus on turning over field after field of the same crop, and kill nonprofitable…
Oregon Is Burning Trees in Order to Save Them
With a fast response, they were able to keep it restricted to the "generally infested area," an 89-square-mile tract of land where sudden oak death runs…