agriculture, Tag

Guest post by Jim Steele, Published in the Pacifica Tribune January 15, 2020 What’s Natural? No Meat for You! New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced NYC’s New Green Deal and his plan “to save our earth”...

Daniel Pryor of the Adam Smith Institute, David E Hanke, Georgina Ferry and Prof Mick Watson respond to an article by George Monbiot claiming that lab-grown food will end farming and save the planetIt’s encouraging to find...

The fashion industry has recently experienced a rise in fur bans, thanks to successful pressure by animal rights advocacy groups and heightened consumer awareness...

Do we really have to tolerate local, state, national or UN officials telling us what we may eat? Guest post by Duggan Flanakin, The average American ate some 220 pounds of red meat and poultry in 2018, according to the US...

What’s Natural column Guest post by Jim Steele, published in the Pacifica Tribune Wednesday December 18, 2019 Victims if 1876 Famine in India When I graduated high school in 1968 there were rampant predictions of environmental...

Created specifically for the farmers working at the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano, this automated, solar-powered chicken coop, by Designers on Holiday, combines two important agricultural tasks: giving a chicken brood...

Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing the climate Cattle grazing on public lands near Steens Mountain, Oregon. BLM/Greg Shine, CC BY Frank M. Mitloehner, University of California, Davis As the...

From The Telegraph Climate change is making horses fat as it’s causing an abundance of grass to grow, top vet warns Brendan McFadden 29 November 2019 • 4:39pm Gillies Moffat, director of a veterinary centre in Hythe,...

Farmers feeling pain and frustration head to Dublin to protest.~cr From Reuters Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Farmers shut down busy parts of central Dublin for a second successive day on Wednesday by parking dozens...

While many meat eaters don’t want to think about the actual slaughter of a turkey, they might comfort themselves with the thought that their Thanksgiving dinner was humanely raised...

In a first-of-its-kind study, the World Wildlife Fund, World Resources Institute and United States Forest Service collaboratively found that a disconcerting 62 percent of the U.S. wood products studied were mislabeled. Mislabeling...

From PBS By —Courtney Vinopal Science Updated on Oct 23, 2019 10:00 AM EDT — Published on Oct 22, 2019 3:56 PM EDT For decades, the conventional wisdom surrounding organic farming has been that it produces crops that...

From The GWPF Brazil’s 2019-20 grain and oilseed crops are poised to reach record production of 245.8mn metric tons (t), boosted by an increase in acreage and a recovery in the soybean crop, which will also likely break...

Automating agriculture is a complex proposition given the number and variety of tasks involved, but a number of robotics and autonomy companies are giving it their best shot...