Congress has reduced risk by using taxpayer funds to underwrite crop prices and cash revenues. — Read on www.marketwatch.com/story/bill-gates-and-warren-buffet-should-thank-american-taxpayers-for-their-profitable-farmland-investments-11615382905
Cattle on a farm in Australia wear smart sensors on their ears. The sensors stream data about their locations and health conditions to the farmer. The farming industry appears to have stagnated over the decades, however, it is currently undergoing an amazing transformation with new agri-technologies. Read more about it below. — Read on www.yahoo.com/finance/news/farms-going-different-kinds-robots-000715037.html
Learn how to take garlic as medicine — garlic is a potent natural antibiotic and immune-booster that luckily tastes great to boot. — Read on www.motherearthnews.com/real-food/garlic-as-medicine-zbcz1403
Helena Norberg-Hodge has been arguing for localism since the 1970s, but the pandemic is making the Australian activist-scholar’s ideas more relevant than ever. — Read on www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/world/australia/norberg-hodge-local-organic-australia.html
If you live in the country, or want to, but are worried about aging there, this 2017 article from Mother Earth News is for you. Readers submitted their ideas on how to simplify and downsize in order to spend as many of one’s retirement years as possible on a country homestead. Click on the below […]
‘Everyone tested positive’: Covid devastates agriculture workers in California’s heartland Read more about how California’s agricultural sector is struggling to survive during the current economic crisis, and what the implications might be. — Read on www.yahoo.com/news/everyone-tested-positive-covid-devastates-100005164.html
Here is an account by one young family that, because of economic and corona virus concerns, moved from urban California to rural Maine to live with the author’s parents. — Read on www.yahoo.com/news/relocated-central-california-tiny-coastal-130200430.html
The collapse of the “Almost Everything Bubble,” which was catalyzed by NOT created by SARS-CoV-2, is increasing the the rate of hunger across the US. Food production, processing and distribution systems have all been severely impacted and will not be able to recover in the near term. — Read on www.yahoo.com/finance/news/hunger-rate-amid-coronavirus-higher-than-during-great-depression-feeding-america-ceo-113427115.html
BEIJING (AP) — China’s leader on Saturday called the accelerating spread of a new virus a grave situation. It is not yet known how contagious or deadly it is. — Read on apnews.com/b2810cebad305f66112a0c68be0f8c9a
We haven’t seen anything like this since the Great Depression of the 1930s. — Read on www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-08-13/average-us-farm-13-million-debt-and-now-worst-farming-crisis-modern-history-upon-us