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University of Idaho awarded more than $25 million in scholarships
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Western View: Calling Out Media Bias
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China Reports Soft Inflation Data
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Groundwater Monitoring Improves
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Partnership Keeps Pressure on Nut Cargo Theft
Verisk’s CargoNet business and WAPA align to mitigate cargo theft in the tree nut industry Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, announced an alliance between its CargoNet® business…
Agri View: Food Label
…Reflects Updated Information about Nutrition Science “Added sugars,” in grams and as percent Daily Value, will be included on the label. Scientific data shows that it is difficult to meet…
Strong May Results for U.S. Beef, Pork Exports
Red meat exports from the United States gained momentum in May with shipments of both beef and pork increasing significantly. Data released by the U.S. Meat Export Federation and the…
Weigh a Bee
…scale and obtaining time-stamped data for individual bees. “We were working with very small signals, at the low end of the technology, so noise in the data was an issue,”…
Agri View: Money Crops
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Almond Forecast Up
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Food Security
…vulnerable populations. This, coupled with the recent availability of consumer price data in food-insecure countries, has been a motivating factor for ERS to develop a new tool to assess international…
Drone Data Becomes Cheaper with FAA Rules
…drone data. FAA Rules Reduce Cost for Drone Data All Drone Solutions Owner Mark Hull says the biggest difference the new FAA rules will make in August is simply reducing…
Agri View: The Computer Age
…maintenance and efficiently apply fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and water. Computer-aided Applications Farmers rely on computers to help them assess and use the data from satellite images and from various other…