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Iraq, a major Middle East grain importer, is interested in purchasing Russia’s durum wheat, agriculture watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor said in a statement following talks with officials from the Iraqi Trade Ministry. According to the statement, the officials were asked to provide the Iraqi side with data on production volumes in different regions of Russia, as well […]
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson The 2018 farm bill is a vital piece of legislation that is often overlooked in Washington. It covers much more than just farms and farmers — every farm bill also affects conservation, trade, nutrition, jobs and infrastructure, agricultural research, forestry and energy. Since the turn of the year, Congress and the Trump administration […]
President Donald Trump barely addressed critical issues for America’s farmers — trade and immigration — in a roughly half-hour speech to the American Farm Bureau Federation on Monday afternoon. Though he spoke at length about low unemployment, a soaring stock market, tax cuts, and reduced regulation, Trump only touched on trade late in his address, […]
At least 2,500 people have turned up at a mass prayer at the Western Wall following calls by Israel’s agriculture minister seeking divine intervention to end the drought plaguing the country for a fifth straight year. Farmers, the president of Israel’s Farmers Union as well as the country’s highest religious authorities, represented by chief rabbis […]
Published time: 24 Dec, 2017 22:32 With Israel facing another dry winter, its agriculture minister is thinking unconventionally and has invited farmers and the general public for a mass prayer at the Western Wall with hopes it will finally “rip the skies open.” “Unfortunately, after four years of drought, we’ve only had a little bit […]
International startup accelerator Techstars announced today that it is launching a new ag tech accelerator in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota. Called the Farm-to-Fork Accelerator, the program will be managed by Brett Brohl, previously an entrepreneur in resident at Techstar’s Retail Accelerator, also based in Minnesota. Cargill and Ecolab, some of the largest players in the ag tech […]
Enlarge (credit: USGS) As the human population grows and the human middle class grows in developing countries, we are going to need more. More food, more meat, more energy. And producing more is going to require more resources. Since we are just about tapped out of the resources required for food production—namely water and land—we […]
Getty Images More than a dozen wildfires are sweeping across Northern California’s wine country. The fires in Napa and Sonoma counties have killed at least 10 people and destroyed more than 1,500 homes and businesses, the Los Angeles Times reported. More than 100 people have reportedly checked into local hospitals for fire-related injuries or health issues, like burns, smoke inhalation, and shortness […]
Published time: 19 Apr, 2017 11:49 There’s a world of opportunities for investors in Russia’s agriculture commodities market with farming in the country flourishing under international sanctions. Following the Western penalties imposed on Russian companies in 2014 and subsequent countersanctions introduced by Moscow in response, some local officials took the opportunity to boost the development […]
