Massive floating fish farm sets new record in China

A semi-submersible aquaculture platform that holds more than 14 million gallons (64,000 cubic meters) of water – around 20 Olympic swimming pools' worth – has begun operating in the waters off the Chinese city of Sanya, Hainan Province. It's expected to produce more than 4,000 tonnes of ocean-farmed fish in the first year.

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Mystery Solved: The Decades-Old Secret Lurking Beneath North Carolina’s Blueberry Farms

A newly identified pest is raising concerns for North Carolina’s blueberry industry. What began as a mystery beneath North Carolina’s blueberry fields has now been traced to a surprising culprit: a giant root-feeding beetle never before confirmed attacking blueberries anywhere else in the United States. Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified the insect [...]

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Zimbabwe tobacco hits new highs under smallholder contracts

Rows of green tobacco plants stretched towards the bush in a vast field of a crop that has rebounded to record levels in Zimbabwe, driven largely by smallholders contracted to Chinese firms. A few dozen aspiring tobacco farmers inspected the broad leaves on a field day of training in the cultivation of the plant, of […]

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Seed-Sharing No Longer Illegal After Landmark Kenya Court Ruling Against Global Seed Monopolists

Kenya’s highest court recently struck down as unconstitutional a law that forbade seed sharing, a long practiced traditional means of diversifying crop production and resilience. The law, whether inadvertently or by design, made Kenya another country within the network of those whose seed industry is virtually controlled by a small group of international conglomerates like […]

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LEARNING ABOUT WINE Why Should You Care How Old the Vines Are?

This week we welcome a new contributor, Mitchell Rabinowitz. Watch for LEARNING ABOUT WINE every Monday. Why Should You Care How Old Vines Are? You should care about vine age when it tells you something concrete about how a vineyard behaves, how it handles difficult weather, and what kind of wine it can produce without ... Read more

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PRESSING MATTERS by Alan Ramey available April 15

PRESSING MATTERS The debates, controversies, and mysteries that have shaped the world of wine ALAN RAMEY $39.00 available online About Pressing Matters People have been drinking wine for thousands of years. So by now we must have worked out the best way to grow, make, and appreciate it – right? In fact, if anything, our ... Read more

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Urine From Music Festival Toilets is Fertilizing a New Biodiverse Forest With Odor-Free Nutrients

In a UK first, a new forest is set to be grown with fertilized nutrients recovered from urine collected from music festival toilets. The woodland in Wales will feature 4,500 native British trees, like beech, grown with fertilizer made with pee from the Boomtown festival, Bristol Pride, and even the London Marathon. The first seed, […]

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‘Grain Bank Accounts’ Free Indian Farmers from Middleman Through Online Marketplace

From the Indian state of Bihar comes the story of a life-changing argi-tech application that’s giving farmers unprecedented control over the financial destiny of their crop. Called Ergos, this digital “grain account” is linked to a network of “grain banks” where farmers can store their crops, monitor inventory and national prices, and sell when they’re […]

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