America's dumbest crop: grass
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How Denmark plans to roll out the world's first cow burp tax – government is investing billions in technologies to help farmers cut livestock emissions
10 votes -
China cut fertilizer use and still increased crop yields (2018)
14 votes -
Earth has now passed peak farmland. What's next?
23 votes -
Canadian crops beat global emissions—even after seventeen trips across the Atlantic
26 votes -
A tree a minute: One man planting 1440 trees in a day
7 votes -
California farmers are installing solar, providing financial stability and saving water
12 votes -
Less rain, more wheat: How Australian farmers defied climate doom
15 votes -
Nebraska sues neighboring Colorado over how much water it’s drawing from the South Platte River
19 votes -
Why America built a forest from Canada to Texas
14 votes -
We are setting out to rewild an Icelandic wetland in a complex project involving birds, freshwater habitats and large areas of degraded peatland
10 votes -
US cattle ranchers may have to relearn how to fight an old enemy — the New World screwworm
29 votes -
Groundwater is rapidly declining in the Colorado River Basin, satellite data show
31 votes -
A newly surfaced document reveals the US beef industry’s secret climate plan
35 votes -
How dairy robots are changing work for cows (and farmers)
11 votes -
The Loess plateau was the most eroded place on Earth until China took action
7 votes -
Wyoming pays $150,000 to settle lawsuit over botched prosecution of hemp farmers
12 votes -
Beekeepers say catastrophic honeybee losses are cause for alarm
37 votes -
Cattle gallstones are worth an absolute fortune — and the Department of Agriculture wants American farmers to get involved
12 votes -
Breakfast for eight billion
7 votes -
US indoor marijuana grow operations are consuming a staggering amount of energy
12 votes -
‘The dead zone is real’: why US farmers are embracing wildflowers
34 votes -
In a first, Arizona’s attorney general sues an industrial farm over its water use
26 votes -
Making farming better for bees: can we breed crops that produce more nectar and pollen?
4 votes -
How guayule, a small shrub, could help the US rubber industry
12 votes -
In the US, regenerative farming practices require unlearning past advice
19 votes -
Large wildfires choke 60% of Brazil and large chunks of neighboring countries in smoke
17 votes -
Bat loss linked to death of human infants
27 votes -
Heat-treated seeds could offer farmers a chemical-free solution for pest control – following success in Sweden and Norway, ThermoSeed looks to expansion into Asia
14 votes -
Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon
38 votes -
Danish insect farm sets sights on feeding Europe's livestock – Enorm intends to produce more than 10,000 tonnes of insect meal and oil a year
23 votes -
Hay grown for cattle consumes nearly half the water drawn from Colorado River, study finds
23 votes -
Denmark will introduce a levy on farm emissions in what is set to be one of the world's first carbon taxes on agriculture
26 votes -
Rice has a methane problem that a startup is promising to fix
15 votes -
Plant apocalypse: how new diseases are destroying EU trees and crops
7 votes -
Farmers reduce methane emissions by changing how they grow rice in Vietnam
14 votes -
The best way to help bees? Don’t become a beekeeper like I did.
34 votes -
Cattle are drinking the Colorado River dry
27 votes -
This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it's spreading
11 votes -
They grow your berries and peaches, but often lack one item: insurance
9 votes -
Cutting-edge tech made the Netherlands a major exporter of food (2022)
15 votes -
Potty trained cows are no joke for the climate (2021)
21 votes -
How a solar revolution in farming is depleting world’s groundwater
16 votes -
How the UN is holding back the Sahara desert
8 votes -
How beavers can fully revitalise a farm
5 votes -
US court bans three dicamba based weedkillers and finds Environmental Protection Agency broke law in approval process
24 votes -
Vertical panels let solar and farming coexist
7 votes -
Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962)
8 votes -
Why the government drops flies on California
10 votes -
Why is the Colorado River running dry?
15 votes