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Paul Houle

🦠 Emulsion technique boosts plant growth with bacteria

phys.org/news/2025-03-emulsion

phys.orgEmulsion technique boosts plant growth with bacteriaResearchers have demonstrated a technique for successfully encapsulating bacteria that can then be stored and applied to plants to improve plant growth and protect against pests and pathogens. The technique opens the door to creating a wide range of crop applications that allow farmers to make use of these beneficial bacteria in conjunction with agrochemicals. The paper, "Pickering Emulsion for Enhanced Viability of Plant Growth Promoting Bacteria and Combined Delivery of Agrochemicals and Biologics," is published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
#agriculture#plants#microbes
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petersuber

Update. "Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can Say"
newrepublic.com/post/193395/ag

"A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of #Agriculture’s Research Service division revealed Sunday that the agency has banned some key language from its vocabulary, including the words “climate” and “vulnerable,” as well as the phrase “safe drinking water.” Other baffling entries on the memo’s banned language list are “greenhouse gas emissions,” “methane emissions,” “sustainable construction,” “solar energy,” and “geothermal,” as well as “nuclear energy,” “diesel,” “affordable housing,” “prefabricated housing,” “runoff,” “microplastics,” “water pollution,” “soil pollution,” “groundwater pollution,” “sediment remediation,” “water collection,” “water treatment,” “rural water,” and “clean water,” among dozens of others."

The New Republic · Leaked Memo Reveals Insane Ban on Words Agriculture Department Can SayThe Department of Agriculture is no longer allowed to use the phrase “safe drinking water.”
#Censorship#DefendResearch#Trump
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Derek Caelin is writing a book

"Big Data applications are intrinsically socio-technical; their development and deployment are a product of social interactions between people, institutional and regulatory settings, as well as the technology itself. "

“If they don’t tell us what they do with it, why would we trust them?” Trust, transparency and benefit-sharing in Smart Farming
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

#Agriculture#SmartFarming#Data
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🇨🇦 Michael Porter 🇨🇦

Mastodon! I'm delivering a talk to a couple of grade 9 classes in a month on the use of space (mainly satellites, but probes to other planets, comets, etc., will be included).

How does your work benefit from satellites?

I'm thinking of a direct use of the data, as opposed to stuff like “internet access” or “my bank relies on satellites to transfer my grant money from one account to another” 😄

Anecdotes, rants, personal stories are all fair game 😊
(To the inevitable suggestion that I just Google this, yes, I can, and have, but I want the human element - I want to be able to say "someone I ‘know’ uses satellites for their job, and this is what they like about the tech”)

Hashtag suggestions are welcome.
(Also - question: Does Mastodon discriminate hashtags with different capitalization? Are #Astronomy and #astronomy functionally different? We *really* need some kind of ISO standard 😉)

#Archaeology #Physics #SolarActivity #Geology #SevereWeather #Climate #ClimateChange
#Satellite #Satellites #Agriculture #oceanography

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Petra van Cronenburg

House #sparrows, once one of the most common #bird species, are becoming increasingly rare in #Europe. Several studies have already shown a direct link between the decline in species and industrialised #agriculture ( #herbicides, #insecticides, #glyphosat).
A new #study shows chronic exposure to #tebuconazole, a widely used #fungicide impairing offspring growth and survival in farmland birds

Study: sciencedirect.com/science/arti

via @cnrs ▶️ cnrs.fr/fr/presse/un-des-fongi

#birds#decline#biodiversityLoss
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Euractiv

#Brazil ready to export more food amid trade war, says #agriculture ministry official: "We are ready to support any country that requires an increase in Brazilian exports - even for geopolitical considerations," said #LuisRua, trade secretary at #Brazil's Ministry of #Agriculture. euractiv.com/section/agricultu

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Megan Lynch (she/her)

Idaho lawmaker's family farm raided by ICE

I'm so impressed by this reporter. He also reported on the West Ada County school district that went after a teacher for her "Everyone is welcome here" poster.

In this climate, in a state as full of fucking Nazis as Idaho has become, this kind of reporting takes bravery. They're lucky to have this guy.

youtube.com/watch?v=yg4PBvaNeF #Fascism #USpol #Immigration #Agriculture #Idaho

YouTubeIdaho lawmaker's family farm raided by ICEBy KTVB
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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@economics-that-works
@gerrymcgovern
@breadandcircuses

8 min

The bee population die off that has stricken the United States agricultural sector is a four alarm fire.

They don’t have a solid idea why this is happening, but this die off is occurring in parallel to the mass die off of insect populations all over the world and the unraveling of the food web.

youtube.com/watch?v=4f56HW7hXm

YouTubeDevastating news about America's bees. And our farms and food chain.By Parkrose Permaculture
#economics#climatechange#agriculture
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DionyZack 🍉✊🏽♀️🇳🇨

NPArevolutionnaires📢 La pénurie américaine d’œufs menace de s’étendre: Le mois dernier, le pays a produit 720 millions d’œufs de poule de moins qu’en février 2024, soit une baisse de 10 %. Les prix, ont connu un pic à 7,56 euros la douzaine, voire 14 euros dans certains endroits (en France, les prix varient entre 2 et 4 euros). L’épidémie de grippe aviaire n’en […] npa-revolutionnaires.org/la-pe 📢NPA-R #PénurieDoeufs #GrippeAviaire #PrixDesAliments #Agriculture #Consommation

NPA RévolutionnairesLa pénurie américaine d’œufs menace de s’étendre - NPA RévolutionnairesLe mois dernier, le pays a produit 720 millions d'œufs de poule de moins qu'en février 2024, soit une baisse de 10 %. Les prix, ont connu un pic à 7,56 euros la douzaine, voire 14 euros dans certains endroits (en France, les prix varient entre 2 et 4 euros).…
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Mériol Lehmann

« Mes cousins produisent du lait au Canada. Et ils s’en tirent mieux avec leur ferme que ceux des États. Je mets souvent au défi des fermiers américains d’aller voir ce qui se passe au Canada. Les fermiers reçoivent un prix juste – pas un prix élevé, un prix juste. » #agriculture plus.lapresse.ca/screens/51357

La Presse · Dossier | Gestion de l’offre | Une frontière, deux mondes (3 articles)Chaque fois qu’un différend commercial s’annonce à l’horizon, les producteurs laitiers retiennent leur souffle : le système de la gestion de l’offre servira-t-il de monnaie d’échange à la table de négociation ? Nous sommes allés à la rencontre de fermiers qui vivent de part et d’autre de la frontière canado-américaine pour soupeser les bons et les moins bons côtés de ce système de contrôle de la production agricole.
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