Future of farming: UGA creating data-driven system that could redefine farming
Chris Starrs | Contributor A $4 million dollar federal grant awarded to Georgia’s College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences could go a long way in providing the template for the farm of the future. UGA, in partnership with Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Clemson and Kansas State, received the grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s […]
Mountain of unpaid subsidies clouds energy, agri future
26 May, 2023, 09:55 am Last modified: 26 May, 2023, 10:02 am Infograph: TBS “> Infograph: TBS The government finds itself trapped in a never-ending cycle of accumulating outstanding subsidies in the agriculture and electricity sectors as it now requires to utilise the current financial year’s allocation to settle the subsidy arrears from the previous […]
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A version of this piece was featured in Food Tank’s newsletter, released weekly on Thursdays. To make sure it lands straight in your inbox and to be among the first to receive it, subscribe now by clicking here. I just returned from Italy after attending the first General Assembly of the World Farmers Market Coalition, which concluded […]
Feeding the Future: The Most Innovative Vertical Farming Companies
Vertical farming is expected to grow in the coming years. Here are six of the top vertical farming companies in the U.S. in 2023. Source: Getty Images Article continues below advertisement Some benefits of vertical farming, which involves growing crops in vertical stacked layers, include year-round production, reduced water usage and use of fossil fuels, […]
Diversification essential to future of Bahrain’s economy: industry minister
Ex-PM Imran Khan handed over to accountability watchdog for investigation in land bribe case ISLAMABAD: Former Prime Minister Imran Khan was on Wednesday handed over by an accountability court to the national anti-graft watchdog on eight-day physical remand for investigation in a case in which he and his wife are accused of receiving land worth […]
The state of agri-tech startups in Dhaka, agriculture, and schlep blindness – Future Startup
I find agri-tech a bit of a misnomer because it does not tell the full story and sometimes misrepresents the extent of the work a company does. It is almost like calling yourself a retail-tech company when you are basically a retail shop that uses accounting software Tally to manage your finances. Misnomer aside, a […]
Bangladesh, USA Should Work Together To Face Future Challenges – OpEd
On April 4, 1972, three and a half months after gaining independence, the United States formally recognized the newly independent Bangladesh. Then US President Richard Nixon expressed his desire to cooperate with the new administration in a message to Prime Minister Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The letter stated that the US government is interested in establishing […]
Billionaires are quietly amassing farmland; What could this mean for the future of ag?
John Dealbreuin | Wisconsin State Farmer No, Bill Gates does not own 80% of all U.S. farmland. The billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft founder recently cleared the air on his 11th Ask Me Anything (AMA) session on Reddit. In response to a question, “Why are you buying up so much farmland, do you think this is […]
CSA farming may well be way of future
As proud Upper Peninsula residents, we believe in our ability to stand strong and apart from the rest of the world. We are indeed blessed to live in this beautiful part of the country with diverse landscape where some might say there are more trees than people. Many generations of us have braved […]
New Zealand needs to prepare for the future of farming
Dr Paul Henderson is a senior research fellow at the Maxim Institute. OPINION: We think we’re pretty sharp when it comes to farming, right? After all, agriculture makes up almost 80% of our exports, and roughly 40% of Aotearoa New Zealand is under the plough. We were leaders in “precision farming” in the 1980s and […]