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Tinder for Crops? How This Food-Technology Company Is Improving Plant-Based Food
What if there was a matchmaking platform, akin to Tinder or Bumble, but instead of singles swiping right for a chance at romance, plant-based food developers were matched with optimized, high-quality ingredients? At food-technology company Equinom, this isn’t an unrealized dream of the future—it’s the company’s current day-to-day reality. Founded in 2012 by Gil Shalev, …
Positive for the environment and for the grower: The benefits of introducing herbaceous crops among mandarin trees
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A Diverfarming project study compares the environmental footprint and the economic performance of traditional mandarin monocropping as opposed to growing mandarin intercropped with herbaceous crops and the use of deficit irrigation The transformation towards intensive agriculture has led to agricultural practices in Europe that have centered on increasing the yield and …
NRCS funds conservation innovation with $14.6 million investment in tools, technology development | Crops
USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is awarding more than $14.6 million in grants to support the development of innovative systems, tools, and technologies for production and conservation on agricultural lands. Funds are provided through the Conservation Innovation Grants program, which awards grants to organizations, universities, and others that are developing innovations to support farmers, ranchers, …
San Diego County’s Freezing Temps Break Records – NBC 7 San Diego
Records were broken overnight Wednesday as temperatures plummeted into the 20s and 30s in most parts of the county due to a cold front passing through Southern California. Four of the National Weather Service’s San Diego County stations reported record-breaking temperatures amid an overnight freeze warning: Ramona’s low temperature of 19 degrees broke its 2002 …
Record-breaking heat threatens southern crops
St. George, South Carolina — A rare October heatwave in the Southeast and Midwest pushed into the Northeast Wednesday and sent temperatures soaring. Records were broken in 164 cities Wednesday as nearly half the country had temperatures above 90. St. Georgia, South Carolina, is now in the grips of a flash drought, brought on by …
Wild wheat genetics offer climate hope for food crops
Image copyright Eviatar Nevo Image caption Scientists are excited by the presence of “beneficial mutations” in wild relatives of wheat Wild relatives of food crops, such as wheat, host an abundant array of genetic material to help the plants cope with a changing climate. In a study over 28 years showed that populations of wild …
France to declare natural disaster after storms rip through crops | World news
France will declare a state of natural disaster after rain and hail storms lashed a swathe of the south-east on Saturday, devastating crops. The flash storms, which brought hailstones as big as pingpong balls to some areas, killed two people in France and Switzerland, and injured at least 10 others. The worst-hit area, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alps …