Some U.S. farmers are picking up a technique seen more often abroad: veganic farming … Share thoughts on green issues, technology

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Some private investors are starting to make long-term bets that the world’s need for food will increase.

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US Farms, Inc., a diversified Farming and Nursery company, today announced that the Company is in the process of divesting the non-performing segments of its produce brokerage segment which includes tomatoes, asparagus and garlic operations.

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Ants took up farming some 50 million years ago, according to U.S. researchers who traced … Technology& science; Science …

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WYNNE, Ark. - Arkansas farming is a long way from 40-acres and a mule. Now it’s about real-time kinematic Global Positioning Systems, lightbar guidance systems, yield monitors, and variable-rate application systems.

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The rice fields that blanketed this remote mountain village for generations are gone. In their place rise neat rows of young rubber trees — their sap destined for China …

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… moment, staff engineer Doug McMakin and his collaborators also realized the technology … Could vertical farming be the future? Software turns photos from bad to good

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BATAVIA, Ohio — When Ford built a transmission plant near this southwestern Ohio farming community three decades ago, people thought it and the good jobs it created would last forever.

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Ten years ago Ron Scroggins got out of farming. He thought there was more money in the timber business- but now he is not so sure. He is set up shop off Highway 165, north of Eufala, but he says the rising price of fuel is slowly putting him out of business.

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KUALA LUMPUR: Did you know that it takes 5,000 litres of water to put a kilogramme of rice on your table? That’s the size of a small swimming pool, or your household water tank.

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