While 2017-18 has seen a record global wheat crop of 758.2m tonnes, increasing reliance on wheat yield rather than area …
Record-high wool price leaves Australian growers in shear delight
The price of wool has reached an historic high after decades of poor returns and Australian woolgrowers are saying the …
Russia Gets Another Market for its Wheat After Deal With Iran
Iran is giving Russia another market to offload its massive wheat harvest. The Persian Gulf nation has agreed to buy …
China to lift over 10 mln people out of poverty in 2018
BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) — China will further reduce the poor rural population by over 10 million, including 2.8 million …
Crops Are Harvested Without Human Input, Teasing the Future of Agriculture
Hands Free Hectare (HFH) is a company based in the United Kingdom that set out to develop automated agriculture — …
From Russia, With Love: Wheat for Half the World
Russian food exports are skyrocketing thanks to the world’s appetite for the country’s wheat. Food shipments from the Black Sea …
Future of precision agriculture is about to take flight
In the late ’90s and early 2000s Southeast Community College instructor Rich Douglass mounted cameras to a kite and began …
Precision agriculture is changing farming
Agriculture is the backbone of Montana’s economy and during the recent MATE Show in Billings, farmers could see some of the latest …
World has knowledge and tools to stop deforestation
“We have the knowledge and tools to stop global deforestation […] but it calls for ambitious, concerted action across all agricultural …
Sustainable agriculture provides a lifeline to Mali’s women
Agriculture is often a key route out of poverty for many in developing countries, especially among women. And in the …
Agriculture and Autonomy in the Middle East
By Sean Keller / Local Futures In Rojava, a region in Syria also known as North Kurdistan, a groundbreaking experiment in communal living, …