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#agriculture

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Megan Lynch (she/her)

State Launches SprayDays California, Pesticide Application Notification System

"The California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has launched SprayDays California, a first-of-its-kind statewide system designed to provide transparent, accessible and timely notifications and information about the use of specific pesticides, called “restricted material pesticides.”"

californiaagnet.com/2025/03/26 #California #Agriculture

California Ag Network · State Launches SprayDays California, Pesticide Application Notification System - California Ag NetworkThe California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has launched SprayDays California, a first-of-its-kind statewide system designed to provide transparent, accessible and timely notifications and information about the use of specific pesticides, called “restricted material pesticides.” Restricted material pesticides are a category of pesticides subject to California’s strictest regulations, including requirements on where they can be used, who can use …
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Nordafrica
Au moment où le sommet "Nutrition pour la croissance" réunit à Paris 75 États, fondations et agences onusiennes pour s'atteler à l'épineux sujet du financement de la lutte contre la malnutrition, un "Village des solutions" accueille ONG, membres de la société civile et institutions pour mettre en lumière les réponses concrètes déjà mises en place sur le terrain. France 24 vous en présente trois.#Afrique #Environnement #Santé #Alimentation #Agriculture #Humanitaire #Pourallerplusloin #Malawi #Ouganda #Madagascar #Malnutrition
L'instant + : Applis, bouillie, insectes... ces initiatives contre la malnutrition en Afrique
FRANCE 24 · L'instant + : Applis, bouillie, insectes... ces initiatives contre la malnutrition en AfriqueBy Cyrielle CABOT
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David Griffith

4yo has had a great day:
- we fed calves and Highland cows at the farm (where there was much poo and many animals covered in poo)
- we did swimming for 2 hours and he got to ride the big slide by himself (about 50 times...)
- he rode a horse for the first time and not only was there a lot of poo but the horse stopped partway through the ride to do a wee
- we shared two big scones
- he told a lot of people at the cafe and the restaurant about all the poo
#poostodon #poo #agriculture

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Flipboard Culture Desk

"A growing body of fiction and film ... deals with farmers' threatened way of life and their increasing unrest as a result of policies meant to curb climate change or temper its effects," writes Bartolomeo Sala in The Dial. Here's his story about "Creation Lake" by Rachel Kushner, "Cosas Vivas" by Munir Hachemi, "As Bestas," directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen and "Alcarrás," directed by Carla Simón. "The conflict between farmers and the green transition is a new phenomenon," Sala says. "Yet the way that recent works of fiction portray this conflict often feels remarkably familiar, playing into an old idea of the countryside as a remnant bound to be destroyed by the march of progress."

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#Farming #Agriculture #ClimateChange #Film #Cinema #Movies #Fiction #Books @bookstodon

The DialRural Fictions — The DialFarming vs. the earth in contemporary film.
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Denise Gutzmer

Texas farmers, ranchers lose billions to 2024 weather disasters

The total incurred damages in Texas was over $3.4 billion.

Drought and excessive heat contributed to more than 66% of Texas’ losses. The most severe drought impacts occurred between June and September.

Texas cotton farmers saw $1.8 billion in losses, and there was a loss of $768 million in forage and rangeland damage and $257 million in wheat losses from drought.

Early in 2024, the Smokehouse Creek Fire caused $123 million in losses, according to Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. It was the largest wildfire in Texas and burned more than 1.2 million of acres in the Panhandle.

#Texas #drought #weather #cotton #fire #agriculture

texasfarmbureau.org/texas-farm

Texas Farm Bureau · Texas farmers, ranchers lose billions to 2024 weather disasters - Texas Farm BureauFor the third year in a row, Texas led the nation with the most significant agricultural losses related to weather.
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sima78🐺

Lu dans Le Klan du Loup
#loup #biodiversite #nature #censure #agriculture

Censure et Polémique : Un Film sur le Loup Déprogrammé Sous la Pression des Agriculteurs

La liberté d’expression mise à mal : un documentaire sur le Loup censuré par des syndicats corporatistes agricoles.
Une décision controversée

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loup.eu/censure-film-loup-agri

Illustration d'un tampon encreur avec le mot "censuré".
Le Klan Du LoupUn Film sur le Loup Déprogrammé Sous la Pression des AgriculteursCliquez sur l'illustration pour lire l'article. Pensez à le partager
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Donncha

Rural Banter in Cork

Tucked away on the serene Sherkin Island in County Cork, I stumbled upon a timeless moment that felt plucked from another era. Two older men, clearly no strangers to the soil beneath them, were deep in conversation.

This photo was taken in 2015 while on a visit to the island. I hope they are still living on the island, chatting away.

Apertureƒ/11CameraCanon EOS 6DFocal length105mmISO100Shutter speed1/50s

#2015 #agriculture #candidMoment #Canon6D #Cork #countryside #elderlyMen #farming #Ireland #Photo #Photography #ruralLife #SherkinIsland #tractor #vintageTractor

Two elderly men converse surrounded by tall grass and greenery on Sherkin Island, Cork, Ireland. One seated on a vintage red tractor, while the other stands beside him gesturing mid-conversation, both dressed in workwear and bathed in warm sunlight.
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Miss Gayle

Honest agriculture is local and regional. It is not factory farming. It is not trying to grow water intensive crops in the desert.

It is food security by more traditional means, not corporate profiteering. Not necessarily without tools, but definitely without disregard for the present and future growing conditions. Honest agriculture is reality based, focusing on the needs of the community.

Link: resilience.org/stories/2025-03

To Garden Honestly Adrian Ayres Fisher originally published by Ecological Gardening March 26, 2025 Honest gardening requires that we take stock of and work within existing conditions, that we don’t try to make the garden something that it isn’t or couldn’t be. Honest gardening is a kind of truth telling, the way art or literature can be. About the image: The great painter Joan Mitchell spent her childhood in Chicago. She once said she painted from nostalgia. The impressionist style image of a golden wheat field with purpose stalks in the foreground is from a large, astonishing, lively work worth seeing in its entirety. I photographed it at the Tate Modern, London in 2024. "This geographic location, this history, this soil, climate, air, this piece of what was an oak woodland savanna, now built up, and moving into a future of climate change and extreme weather. This is gardening with something that feels like memory, of this place as it might have been 150 years or so ago. It is gardening with something that feels like nostalgia for an imagined future of restored ecosystems and societal health but is most likely planning for a range of possible futures ranging from dire to less dire, and always hoping for the survival of biodiversity, of ecosystem complexity."
#Garden#Agriculture#FoodSecurity
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ABC Feeds

Bitter broccoli ploughed into soil as epic dry continues in Victoria
By Jane McNaughton

One farmer in Victoria's west has lost hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of broccoli, during a dry spell described by another as the worst since the millennium drought.

abc.net.au/news/rural/2025-03-

ABC News · Bitter broccoli, smaller potato crops amid prolonged dry weather in west VictoriaBy Jane McNaughton
#Agriculture#VegetableGrowing#VegetableCrops
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