…the largest market in prior decades, has declined in importance as China, Canada, Mexico, Asia and the rest the rest of the Americas have risen. (For data on top export…
Bayer AgVocacy Forum: Be an #AgVocate
…CEO of The ODIN and former NASA bioscientist Charles Baron, co-founder and vice president of Farmers Business Network, a crowd-sourced program for data-driven agriculture AgVocacy Forum will be moderated by…
Connecting Drones in Real Time
…to the cloud in real time, even while operating beyond line-of-sight. The Botlink XRD is an FCC-approved cellular device that allows users to send and receive data through a secure…
Agri View: Food Protection
…information plus directives and notices, compliance guidelines, data collection and reports, and more. E. coli and Ground Beef Focus on Ground Beef (USDA) Includes concerns about E. coli. E. coli…
Agri View: Food Prices
…lowest priced eggs, and cage free production will likely remain significantly more expensive than eggs from caged sources, as data supports that production costs are higher,” he said. “Eggs from…
U.S. Should Be Better Prepared For Pests, Diseases
…of an outbreak. • More funding for the systems that safeguard U.S. agriculture. • Share data, including on animal movements, to improve disease response. (Click here to read NPPC’s testimony.)…
Agri View: Marijuana, a Hot Crop
…to these toxicants. A follow up study building on this data in 2015 determined that the trend of exposure and mortality from these toxicants increased to 85% of California fishers…
State Water Project Allocations Doubled
…to know if this winter will deeply dent the state’s historic drought. DWR’s California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) Web sites show current water conditions at the state’s reservoirs and weather…
Agri View: GMO Production
…he wouldn’t still be a farmer.” Optimistically, each winter we review our harvest data comparing our crop yield by variety to our cost of production for that crop that season,…
Open Data Powers Conservation Mapping Tool
…as part of USDA’s ongoing Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI) and presents geospatial data covering a 100 million-acre landscape in eight western states. “Bringing this data together in an easy-to-use online…
Agri View: Food Consumption
…on some of those glad tidings. Analyzing data from more than 100,000 people enrolled in the Nurses’ Health Study and the Health Professionals’ Follow-up Study, scientists at Harvard School of…
Agri View: Women and Modern Agriculture
…because of labour constraints. Do women work in fisheries and aquaculture? While comprehensive data are not available on a sex-disaggregated basis, case studies suggest that women may comprise up to…
UC Davis Hydrology Team Visits NRI Study Field
…with respect to soil water depletions, costs, carbon capture and soil improvement in a range of orchard and tomato production systems. A variety of data collection efforts are now underway…
NCBA Continues to Express Concerns with Market Volatility
…between trading actions, greater enforcement against market spoofing, monitoring and reporting of market misuse, and the release of audit trail data. “While CME has announced certain measures, the effect of…