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FFA’s Kayla Rossi: Responsibly Managing Livestock
Supporting ag's future is paramount to feeding a growing population. This requires advancements from our farmers and scientists. FFA's Kayla Rossi contributes to this endeavor with her family's responsibly managed livestock operation.
Soil and Crop Management
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Would a ‘traffic light’ label help prioritize your nutrition?
A new food label proves European food manufacturers' commitment to consumer health. This stoplight-like label helps shoppers quickly determine a product's overall nutrition. How will U.S. food producers react?
Health
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Will more ethanol fight inflation…or fuel it?
Prices for gasoline, food and other staples continue to rise and rise. The latest initiative is to increase the amount of ethanol allowed in our gas tanks. But will this temper gas prices? Or just increase food prices for consumers?
Food Regulations and Policy, Food Trade
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Goodbye “GMO”, Hello “Bioengineered”
Have you seen the new GMO labels? As of January 1st, the USDA requires food companies to label products as “bioengineered” if any ingredients are genetically modified. What will this mean for GMOs and consumer acceptance?
Food Regulations and Policy, Health
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Ukraine Conflict Clouds Outlook for Global Food System
Ukrainians are needlessly suffering from this invasion. But tragically, more suffering will follow as Putin’s aggression triggers a disrupted food system, higher food costs and, even worse, food insecurity for our most vulnerable.
Food Security
Energy, Food Costs: The Unexpected Pain of Ukraine Invasion
While it is uncertain whether Russia's invasion of Ukraine will have serious immediate consequences for U.S. consumers, it could have profound longer-term implications for food costs, the global supply chain and trading system that makes our modern lifestyle possible.
Food Security, Food Trade
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How Smart People Change Their Minds
It's easy to see when the choices others make are bad for them. However, our brains try to protect us from disappointing or conflicting info, resulting in overconfidence with our own abilities and beliefs than we should have.
Health
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Supplements: Health solution or illusion?
Most of us take a supplemental nutrient to ease joint pain, make our digestive system happy, or get veggie nutrients we may have missed during the day. But do they really make us healthier? Or are they just a bandage over a bigger problem?
Health
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FFA’s Nicholas Mello: The Importance of Seed Science
In partnership with the Future Farmers of America, we will be highlighting a series of finalists from 2020 and 2021 to share their stories and passions. Today, read about Nicholas Mello of California and his hybrid corn seed experimentation.
Agricultural Technology, Soil and Crop Management
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‘We see the storm coming’: U.S. struggles to contain deepening global food crisis (Politico)
Biden officials are scrambling to limit the damage from fast-spreading food shortages sparked by Russia’s war in Ukraine, but they face complex political and logistical challenges.
Food Security, Food Trade
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Agrifoodtech ventures raised record $52bn in 2021, nearly doubling 2020 total (AgFunder News)
$52bn represents an 85% increase over 2020’s $27.8 billion total, indicating the accelerating demand from investors and consumers for sustainable food system technologies.
Food Technology
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Inflammatory Bowel Disease Linked to Microplastics in Your Gut (Futurism)
A new study conducted by top scientists in China found a link between microplastics and IBD, or inflammatory bowel disease.
Health
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A Farmer’s Quest to Beat California’s Waves of Drought (Wired)
Don Cameron went all in on a trickle-down survival tactic. It could help save America's agricultural heartland—even if he doesn't survive the new water war.
Conservation
