Fertilisers Price Index down by 44.2% in the year to July 2023
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-api/agriculturalpriceindicesjuly2023/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=AgPricesjuly23&utm_term=AgPricesjuly23
#CSOIreland #Ireland #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Farming #Prices #AgPrices #Livestock #Cattle #Sheep #Pigs #MilkStatistics #MilkProduction #Dairy #Milk #Tillage #Crops #Agronomy #CensusofAgriculture

#Seattle’s #Black #Farmers Collective nurtures communities and #crops
https://www.hcn.org/issues/55.9/agriculture-seattles-black-farmers-collective-nurtures-communities-and-crops

https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ms/milkstatisticsjuly2023/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon&utm_campaign=Milk+Statistics+July+2023&utm_term=Milk+Statistics+July+2023

#CSOIreland #Ireland #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Farming #Prices #AgPrices #Livestock #Cattle #Sheep #Pigs #MilkStatistics #MilkProduction #Dairy #Milk #Tillage #Crops #Agronomy #CensusofAgriculture

A dispute had erupted between the two families over the issue. Around 11 a.m. on Thursday, around a dozen people armed with sticks and agricultural tools attacked the members of the other family
#FamilyBeaten #Death #Pigs #Crops
https://www.news18.com/india/jkhand-two-women-among-three-of-family-beaten-to-death-after-pigs-destroy-crops-six-arrested-8559090.html

The number of pigs slaughtered between January and July 2023 fell by 10.4%
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ls/livestockslaughteringsjuly2023/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Mastodon&utm_campaign=Livestock+Slaughterings+July+2023&utm_term=Livestock+Slaughterings+July+2023
#CSOIreland #Ireland #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Farming #Prices #AgPrices #Livestock #Cattle #Sheep #Pigs #MilkStatistics #MilkProduction #Dairy #Milk #Tillage #Crops #Agronomy #CensusofAgriculture

Michigan native vegetation.

clovers

https://www.everwilde.com/store/Dalea-candida-WildFlower-Seed.html

#Michigan
#NativePlants
#clover
#farming
#crops (ground cover)
#CoverCrop

#BiomassConnect has collated the latest Hub Site updates.

☀️ June 2023 was one of weather extremes in the UK. It was the hottest June on record and also very dry. Not ideal for establishing new plants. See how our trial #biomass #crops are faring with a round-up from each of our 8 hub sites across the UK. 🌱

https://loom.ly/a2SwEZk

#SouthAmerica's scorching winter is decimating #crops and threatening lives

Story by Marina E. Franco, August 15, 2023

"This winter in South America has been one of the hottest on record, intensifying crises created over the last year by severe #droughts, #wildfires and #floods in some regions.

"Why it matters: Experts say the #Extremeweather is already threatening critical #biodiversity and the lives of millions in a region where many reside in slums or informal housing with little #infrastructure.

"Threat level: Much of the northern hemisphere has experienced deadly #heatwaves and weather disasters this summer. July was the hottest month on record.

"In South America, the 'hot' winter effect stems both from the El Niño phenomenon that warms ocean temperatures and from man-made #globalwarming says Alejandro Max Pastén, head of hydrological prediction at Paraguay's Weather Service.

"'What's being done so far to stem this is either not yet panning out or simply not enough, and the effects are increasingly plain to see,' adds Pastén, who also leads the atmospheric sciences department at Paraguay's Universidad Nacional de Asunción.

"Extreme weather has caused significant reductions in crops for local consumption and for exports, which contribute to many of South America's economies. For example, drought has slashed #Argentina's #soybean yields to the lowest in 24 years, threatening its status as world's largest exporter of #soybeanoil and meal.

"Increased and irregular #glacier melting has put lives and livelihoods in danger since many people depend on regular meltoff for drinking water and #agriculture. It is also used to supply #hydroelectric power generation, which could be affected as glacier water becomes more scarce.

"The World Meteorological Organization has warned that a diminished hydroelectric power supply is increasing demand for fossil fuels in a region that has 'major untapped potential for #renewable energy.'

"What's happening: Heat waves have hit several South American nations since July, the second month of winter. The average temperature in #BuenosAires in early August is 59°F — this year it's been 86°. Temperatures in #Chile hit 100° this month.

"#ExtremeHeat has worsened drought conditions and also made the region more prone to dangerous landslides when it rains.

"Parts of #Uruguay have been under a 'water emergency' since June because of drought, and that same month #Bolivia had a mix of drought, heavy rains and frost."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/other/south-america-s-scorching-winter-is-decimating-crops-and-threatening-lives/ar-AA1fjeWT

#ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

How to grow #crops
https://boingboing.net/2023/08/14/how-to-grow-crops.html
#gardening #farming

Fertilisers Price Index down by 43.4% in the year to June 2023
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-api/agriculturalpriceindicesjune2023/?utm_source=mast&utm_medium=mast&utm_campaign=agprices
#CSOIreland #Ireland #Agriculture #Agribusiness #Farming #Prices #AgPrices #Livestock #Cattle #Sheep #Pigs #MilkStatistics #MilkProduction #Dairy #Milk #Tillage #Crops #Agronomy

This tag team is deadly! Understanding the interaction between #Phytophthora and #Fusarium and its impact on #soybean can help us develop the #crops of the future. Read on!🔓⬇️🎉https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13505 …
@wileyplantsci
#JIPB #PlantSci #CropSci #phytopathology #PlantPathology #PlantScience

Map of the Week: Barley Production - find out more at http://wrld.at/motw279 #maps #cartograms #cartography #worldmapper #motw #food #farming #agriculture #foodproduction #barley #crops

I wrote about farms like this one when I did a story about #UnityMaine, the home of the #CommonGroundFair -- a celebration of #OrganicFarming in #Maine. It makes me so sad to see them having to go out of business because #MaineDEP and #EPAFail led to #sludge being marketed as "fertilizer".

‘I don’t know how we’ll survive’: the #farmers facing ruin in #Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis

Maine faces a crisis from #PFAS-contaminated produce, which is causing farms to close and farmers to face the loss of their livelihoods

by Tom Perkins, 22 Mar 2022 06.05 EDT

"Songbird Farm’s 17 acres (7 hectares) hold sandy loam fields, three greenhouses and cutover woods that comprise an idyllic setting near Maine’s central coast. The small organic operation carved out a niche growing heirloom grains, tomatoes, sweet garlic, cantaloupe and other products that were sold to organic food stores or as part of a community-supported agriculture program, where people pay to receive boxes of locally grown produce.

Farmers Johanna Davis and Adam Nordell bought Songbird in 2014. By 2021 the young family with their three-year-old son were hitting their stride, Nordell said.

"But disaster struck in December. The couple learned the farm’s previous owner had decades earlier used PFAS-tainted sewage sludge, or '#biosolids', as fertilizer on Songbird’s fields. Testing revealed their soil, drinking #water, irrigation water, #crops, chickens and #blood were #contaminated with high levels of the #ToxicChemicals.

"The couple quickly recalled products, alerted customers, suspended their operation and have been left deeply fearful for their financial and physical wellbeing.

"'This has flipped everything about our lives on its head,' Nordell said. 'We haven’t done a blood test on our kid yet and that’s the most terrifying part. It’s fucking devastating.'"

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-know-how-well-survive-the-farmers-facing-ruin-in-americas-forever-chemicals-crisis

#EPA #InformedConsent #PFOS #WaterIsLife #ToxicWaste #FoodProduction

2022: #Maine bans use of sewage sludge on #farms to reduce risk of #PFAS poisoning

Sludge used as crop #fertilizer has #contaminated #soil, #water, #crops and #cattle, forcing #farmers to quit

by Tom Perkins, Thu 12 May 2022 11.00 EDT

"Maine last month became the first state to ban the practice of spreading PFAS-contaminated sewage sludge as fertilizer.

"But it’s largely on its own in the US, despite a recent report estimating about 20m acres of cropland across the country may be contaminated.

"Most states are only beginning to look at the problem and some are increasing the amount of sludge they spread on farm fields despite the substance being universally contaminated with PFAS and destroying livelihoods in Maine.

"'Maine is at the forefront of this because we’ve seen first-hand the damage that sludge causes to farms,' said Patrick MacRoy, deputy director of the non-profit Defend Our Health Maine. The new law also prohibits sludge from being composted with other organic material.

"PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of chemicals used across dozens of industries to make products resistant to water, stains and heat. Though the compounds are highly effective, they are also linked to #cancer, #KidneyDisease, #BirthDefects, decreased #immunity, #liver problems and a range of other serious diseases.

"Sewage sludge is a semi-solid mix of human excrement and industrial #waste that water treatment plants pull from the nation’s sewer system. It’s expensive to dispose of, and about 60% of it is now lightly treated and sold or given away as 'biosolid' fertilizer because it is high in plant nutrients.

"Maine and #Michigan are the only two states that are routinely checking sludge and farms for PFAS, and both are finding contamination on farms to be widespread.

"Maine’s legislature banned the practice of spreading sludge as fertilizer in April [2022] after environmental officials discovered astronomical levels of PFAS in water, crops, cattle and soil on farms where sludge had been spread, and high PFAS levels have been detected in farmers’ blood.

"#Contamination from PFAS-tainted sludge has already poisoned well water on around a dozen farms, and has forced several Maine farms to shutter. The state is investigating about 700 more fields where PFAS-contaminated sludge was spread in recent years. Farmers have told the Guardian that many of their peers with contaminated land won’t alert the state because they fear financial ruin.

"Maine also approved the creation of a $60m fund that will be used to help farmers cover medical monitoring, for buyouts and for other forms of financial assistance.

"'Folks have been left out to dry without any real help so we’re grateful to see that,' MacRoy said. The sludge legislation comes after Maine last year enacted the nation’s first ban on non-essential uses of PFAS in products. It goes into effect in 2030.

"In Michigan, environmental officials have downplayed the detection of PFAS in sludge and on farms, and although the state prohibits highly contaminated sludge from being spread, it allows higher levels of the chemicals in sludge than Maine. State regulators have also identified PFAS polluters and required them to stop discharging the chemicals into the sewers.

"Questions remain about whether that’s enough to keep PFAS out of Michigan’s food supply. Instead of implementing a wide-scale program to test livestock, crops and dairy, the state identified 13 farms it considered most at risk and has claimed contamination on other farms isn’t a risk.

"Michigan is ahead of most other states. In #Virginia, environmental regulators are considering permitting an additional 6,000 acres worth of sludge to be spread and have so far resisted public health advocates’ calls to test for PFAS and reject new sludge permits.

"In #Alabama, the state’s department of environmental management said in 2019 that 'the best use of biosolids is as a [fertilizer].'

"Even as the crisis unfolds in Maine, officials in Alabama are increasing the amount of out-of-state sludge that’s imported and spread on fields or landfilled, and the state in 2020 updated its biosolids rule to 'encourage' the use of #biosolids as fertilizer. Alabama does not test sludge for PFAS."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/12/maine-bans-sewage-sludge-fertilizer-farms-pfas-poisoning

#EPA #EPAFail #InformedConsent #PFOS #WaterIsLife #ToxicWaste #FoodProduction

#Crop conditions in #Nebraska have declined over the last week due to extreme #heat and severe #weather damage, endangering the health of local #farmers’ #crops. As of July 31st, #Nebraskan #farmer Debbie Borg reports that her #corn and #soybean #crops are “barely hanging on.” Read more on the impacts of current countrywide #drought: https://www.isciences.com/blog/2023/07/21/united-states-intense-surplus-continues-in-sw-w-states

#flood #drought #climate #environment #BlueWater #WaterRunoff #watermaps #sustainability #WaterScarcity #EnvironmentalScience

A Community Page highlights new tools and resources to accelerate #ClimateChange resilience in #rice

Two Essays discuss how to engineer plant traits that we don't completely understand, and how introgressions from wild relatives and traditional varieties can be used to improve the resilience of modern #crops

#ClimateChange #plants #engineering #sustainability #sustainabledevelopmentgoals #foodsecurity
@PLOSBiology

https://plos.io/3pTSI6U

Twelve undeniable signs globalists are engineering THE END of humanity

- Far beyond mere #depopulation, this is engineered global #genocide against an entire species (humans)
- Radical Left is at WAR with food, energy, transportation and commerce that keeps humanity alive
- Planetary-scale #terraforming now under way with CO2 sequestration machines
- Agricultural #crops are being decimated through monopolization of the seed supply: #GMO Frankenfood pesticide poisons
- #CDC about to push ANNUAL #COVID jabs to achieve accelerated depopulation and #infertility of the human race
- #Geoengineering being aggressively deployed to cause huge crop failures stemming from #droughts and floods
- How to protect your assets and freedoms by using #decentralized content platforms and #crypto money systems

https://www.brighteon.com/9fdca79e-066f-4f7c-8d70-8355996e395b

This is wild. Rent some #bees to deliver #microbes to your #crops to fight pests.

Someone who understands the whole microbe intervention with the crops explain whether this is a good thing?

https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/bee-vectoring-technologies-uses-the-power-of-bees-to-safeguard-crops-with-all-natural-solution-1.1948320?twclid=2-1xgmoklewo4jibytazveawojx

#WashingtonState #wildfires threaten animals, homes, #crops

Story by Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, July 27, 2023

"A wildfire that started in #Klickitat County, Washington, on Friday afternoon destroyed more than 30,000 acres in less than a day and continues to grow as it feeds on brush, grass and forest vegetation.

"Fire crews are working to extinguish the #NewellRoadWildfire near #Bickleton, which has resulted in the evacuation of residents in the rural area, and is threatening #farms, #livestock, #homes and #wind and #SolarFarms, reported KOMO News.

"'It's very difficult terrain to fight fire,' said Allen Lebovitz, a spokesperson for the state's Department of Natural Resources, as Reuters reported. 'We are under a red flag warning. That's a #firefighter's worst nightmare because the #humidity is dropping precipitously. The winds are picking up. And so the fire carries extremely fast.'

"The wildfire is burning just to the north of where the #Oregon-Washington border is represented by the #ColumbiaRiver. It has destroyed several structures and is threatening a #NaturalGas #pipeline.

"Lebovitz said the fire was heading in the direction of the #Yakama Indian Reservation."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/washington-state-wildfires-threaten-animals-homes-crops/ar-AA1er4ah?rc=1&ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=981bee14b02942c4bb3675d430fab3a1&ei=9

this prediction seems optimistic: i expect cereal crop yields will crash to nearly nothing long before 2050

Crop yields are going to suffer year-on-year, with one prediction suggesting yields may be down by as much up as 30% by 2050

#food #crops https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/sourcing/cereal-crops-decimated-by-europes-heatwave/681361.article