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These crops, being embraced by big agriculture in the U.S., carry genes that imbue them with resistance to herbicides and lace their tissues with a bacterial toxin harmless to humans but fatal to pests that may try to feed on them.
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Willemse was a pioneer in what's now known as precision agriculture, and which may be the biggest advance in farming since tractors replaced horses.
«If we get people excited for agriculture and learning where food comes from, we could really start to change agricultural processes, and make a really big impact in the world,» she says.
Agriculture is the next biggest arena in the state, with six of the first exempted operators.
But the same big - data demos were being done in many sectors, including transportation, security, agriculture, and finance.
«The biggest mega-problem facing agriculture is how do we clean up our act, maintain scalability so that we can feed everybody — and even those who are to come — but do it in a sustainable way.»
Sure, NASA has a big advantage when it comes to generating viral hits due to its mission servicing the fundamental human need for exploration, knowledge, and new discovery (Department of Agriculture, eat your heart out), but even the most powerful content can get bungled in its execution and delivery.
How we came to do this is a twisting tale that science writer Maryn McKenna elegantly unspools in her extraordinary new book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats, which was published in September.
Regulation is also starting to play a bigger role, as regulators explore cellular agriculture as a viable food source in the future.
As Africa's biggest exporter of iron ore to China, South Africa is suffering from a slump in mining, as well as in other sectors like manufacturing and agriculture.
Two big challenges in urban farming today are securing financing and educating cities on ways to nurture urban agriculture in their communities, Herbert says.
Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show big gains in Americans» spice consumption since the 1970s, including 600 percent more chile pepper, 300 percent more cumin, and a whopping 1,600 percent more ginger.
Compare this to the fierce determination and focus of our other cousins, the New Zealanders, who worked out long ago that to be relevant in global agriculture, you have to be big, nimble, and at the risk of sounding xenophobic, in control of your own destiny.
The US is the world's biggest cattle importer according to the US Department of Agriculture, with imports of almost 2 million head in 2015, though its imports are mostly trucked across from Mexico and Canada.
«I want Big Spoon to help support farmers and other people participating in sustainable agriculture that contribute to the products we make.»
«He said that not only are our big export trade deals in Asia, China, Japan, Korea, opening up more markets for him and so many other Australian agricultural exporters - but also he praised the Department of Agriculture.
From investing in sustainability enhancing technology to supporting regenerative agriculture programs, the big food company is taking on one of today's most pressing environmental issues.
The role of big food industries in boosting organic agriculture is further illustrated by the New Zealand dairy sector.
And our Big Government - hating new Agriculture Secretary is currently attempting to return deep fat fryers to our schools, an effort which scored big points for him on Fox News but might be a tad less beneficial for the 36 % of kids in my state who are already overweight or obeBig Government - hating new Agriculture Secretary is currently attempting to return deep fat fryers to our schools, an effort which scored big points for him on Fox News but might be a tad less beneficial for the 36 % of kids in my state who are already overweight or obebig points for him on Fox News but might be a tad less beneficial for the 36 % of kids in my state who are already overweight or obese.
My sense is that we've hit upon a perfect storm of sorts: the financial interests of Big Agriculture and Big Food are part if it, surely, but we also have a society in which, as Marion Nestle noted, [j] unk food and obesity are key indicators of political divisions in our society.
The dairy industry is big business in the United States, with powerful influence within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the government agency charged with providing sound leadership regarding our food system.
Schools across the country have made big changes in the cafeteria as a result of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's updated nutrition standards for school meals.
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Cambiemos enjoys strong ties to big business in both industry and agriculture.
«Looking forward, machine learning, big data and self - driving vehicles will further increase the potential for automation in both agriculture and manufacturing, reducing the need for human labour.»
Formed in 2004 the group has been focusing on capitalizing on the area's biggest industry, agriculture.
They pretend to be fiscally conservative, but never protest wars of choice that cost a $ 1 billion in taxpayer money a day, or surreal levels of subsidies to BIG agriculture and energy companies that make a total mockery of every aspect of the Free Market.
The NPP flagbearer noted that though Ghana is bigger in land size and population, the export value of Ghana's agriculture is $ 2 billion, whereas that of Ivorian agriculture is $ 12 billion.
Dangote, whose cement unit is Nigeria's biggest listed company, has been investing in agriculture as the country's government seeks to diversify away from oil, which accounts for 90 percent of the nation's export earnings and the bulk of revenue.
«New York has really jumped ahead in a big way,» said Richard Ball, the state's agriculture commissioner.
Any deep cuts would be tough to handle in a rural area where agriculture is the next biggest driver of the economy.
«These IPM programs are very big in Africa because they get funding from international funding agencies to develop more sustainable agriculture,» explains Chiasson.
It also endangers freshwater supplies, which in turn could have a big impact on agriculture.
The authors, which included federal and academic scientists, found big changes in store for the $ 200 billion U.S. agriculture industry.
«Theres a pretty substantial group now thats looking at the big picture, beyond just killing weeds,» says Tony Svejcar, a U.S. Department of Agriculture researcher in Oregon.
«The big news is that we now have evidence of a function for RNA that is being exchanged between dodder and its quarry,» said Jim Westwood, professor of plant pathology, physiology, and weed science in Virginia Tech's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, an author of the paper.
Competitive grants are catching on at two agencies — the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency — that haven't been big investors in such awards in the past.
That hole at the bottom is big enough for a royal larva to fall through, confirms insect physiologist Steven Cook at the honeybee research lab in Beltsville, Md., run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service.
Bowman, chair of the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology in UD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, said that the paper was part of a bigger project looking at whether there was a competitive exclusion between white - tailed deer and sika deer.
In a new report entitled «Edible Insects: Future prospects for food and feed security ``, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) says that farmed insects could make a big contribution to our diets — they contain lots of protein and are cheap to produce.
McKibben: Well, it's not quite the same, because we're not, you know, we [wouldn't] try to, sort of, do a big political campaign around it, but it is the way that this, you know, the things like this locavore movement and local agriculture in general have spread very rapidly from local farmers» market [s] to the fastest growing part of the food economy in this country and have been for a decade now, they're just booming everywhere.
In the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicinIn the household energy and food and agriculture sectors, the proposal with the biggest impact on both climate change and public health was a 10 - year programme in India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicinin India to replace 150 million indoor biomass - burning stoves with low - emissions cooking stoves, according to lead author Paul Wilkinson, also at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
In the longer run, maybe nucleic acid based drugs will become heavily used once improved delivery systems are discovered.The second big change is to agriculture.
That's a very big chance that agriculture, and maybe even some cities in the Southwest, might have to be abandoned.
Ok, this one starts to get a little controversial... but, remember that agriculture is also a relatively new phenomenon in the big picture of the human diet when you expand far back in history a couple of million years.
The Big History shows that civilizations flourished in favorable areas for agriculture and trade, such as river basins and coastal areas.
We are living in interesting times; in the long run, the development of the poorer areas of the world will be a big plus, particularly for US agriculture and resource extraction industries, but there will be bumps along the way.
Rogers is a big believer in raw materials, agriculture, and the future of Asia.
I also grew up in a poor valley region in California where we have a lot agriculture and huge Hmong immigrant population so I went to school with a lot of Hmong people (little known by Americans - as there are mostly Chinese, Thai, Korean people in the bigger cities) and got to go to a few food / culture festivals and see their beautiful embroidery -
All of agriculture needs to make a big shift in its methods in order to correct its many damaging practices including increasing atmospheric CO2, cruelty to animals, and feeding low levels of antibiotics which produce resistant human disease organisms.