For decades, Israeli settlers have built outposts on West Bank land without official authorization that, in many cases, end up being accepted by Israel as formal settlements. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/26/world/society/israel-hilltop-settlers-expel-palestinians/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #israel #palestinians #agriculture
As more societies approach planetary boundaries like Iran's destabilizing water crisis, responses that once seemed drastic or utopian will begin to look like common sense. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/26/world/if-communism-is-the-only-option/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #iran #communism #rain #water #agriculture
Chip Butty
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In the Pacific Northwest? Want to help farmers operate more efficiently? Have experience in agricultural sales or related areas? Looking for a new job?
Harvest Source is a new type of agriculture supply company, and they are looking for you!
In the Pacific Northwest? Want to help farmers operate more efficiently? Have experience in agricultural sales or related areas? Looking for a new job?
Harvest Source is a new type of agriculture supply company, and they are looking for you!
European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen was supposed to sign the European Union’s largest free-trade agreement on Saturday, proving the bloc’s standing as a geoeconomic force. That didn't happen. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/22/economy/europe-stumbles-trump-world-order/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #eu #southamerica #trade #us #china #donaldtrump #agriculture #italy #globaleconomy
Billy Smith
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"Master's degree (2 years)
Full time
Urban Agriculture
How do we get greener and more sustainable cities? Which social, technological and economical aspects are connected with urban food production? How may urban farming become more than plants grown in the city?
Urban Agriculture will from autumn 2026 be one of three specializations in a new Master in Sustainable Food Futures. The admission requirements will still be similiar as today." https://www.nmbu.no/en/studies/master-2-year/urban-agriculture #Agriculture #Norway
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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The Frozen Gamble of Icewine
Canada's world-famous icewine is high-stakes agricultural art. To earn the 'icewine' title in #Canada, the grapes must be harvested while naturally frozen solid on the vine. Growers anxiously wait for a sustained cold snap, between -8°C and -13°C, then pick the grapes, often at night. This process yields a tiny amount of highly concentrated, sweet juice, making icewine a prized delicacy. #Agriculture #Icewine #Niagara #BC
A lax regulatory environment has led to the widespread abuse of farmworkers — including threats of violence, stolen wages and forced labor.
Experts say the Fair Food Program's reforms could help.
But few farms have signed on.
https://www.propublica.org/article/fair-food-program-farmworker-abuse-exploitation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Agriculture #Farming #Immigration #Labor #Abuse #Exploitation #Immigrants
Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide
#HackerNews #farmers #Parkinsons #pesticide #health #issues #agriculture
The price of a rice coupon that will be sold to municipalities in Japan will go down from the usual ¥500 to a uniform ¥477, the national federation of rice wholesalers' mutual aid cooperative associations has said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/12/japan/society/rice-coupon-wholesalers-group/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #rice #agriculture
Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥
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Recently I dove into the Dutch RVO webservices to get agricultural field data. Dealing with legacy SOAP, GML and PKIO certificates was... an experience. I therefore build a TypeScript package that can act as a connector and handle the heavy lifting and just output a modern GeoJSON (including reprojection to WGS84). I made it open-source at https://github.com/SvenVw/rvo-connector. It's a start as it now only supports requesting fields and not altering fields yet #TypeScript #rvo #Agriculture #netherlands
Recently I dove into the Dutch RVO webservices to get agricultural field data. Dealing with legacy SOAP, GML and PKIO certificates was... an experience. I therefore build a TypeScript package that can act as a connector and handle the heavy lifting and just output a modern GeoJSON (including reprojection to WGS84). I made it open-source at https://github.com/SvenVw/rvo-connector. It's a start as it now only supports requesting fields and not altering fields yet #TypeScript #rvo #Agriculture #netherlands
"Master's degree (2 years)
Full time
Urban Agriculture
How do we get greener and more sustainable cities? Which social, technological and economical aspects are connected with urban food production? How may urban farming become more than plants grown in the city?
Urban Agriculture will from autumn 2026 be one of three specializations in a new Master in Sustainable Food Futures. The admission requirements will still be similiar as today." https://www.nmbu.no/en/studies/master-2-year/urban-agriculture #Agriculture #Norway
Japan's average retail rice price hit a new record high for the first time in three weeks, according to agriculture ministry data. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/06/average-rice-price-new-high/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #rice #food #inflation #agriculture #maff
🌽 Open Source Ag Tech for Small Farmer Sovereignty
The recording of November’s DWeb Virtual Meetup is online!
In case you missed it, check it out here: https://archive.org/details/dweb-virtual-meetup-nov-2025-open-source-ag-tech/DWeb+Virtual+Meetup+-+Nov+2025-+video.mp4
The Frozen Gamble of Icewine
Canada's world-famous icewine is high-stakes agricultural art. To earn the 'icewine' title in #Canada, the grapes must be harvested while naturally frozen solid on the vine. Growers anxiously wait for a sustained cold snap, between -8°C and -13°C, then pick the grapes, often at night. This process yields a tiny amount of highly concentrated, sweet juice, making icewine a prized delicacy. #Agriculture #Icewine #Niagara #BC
manisha
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What if the best crop protectors aren’t chemicals — but the viruses living inside fungi?
In this video, we explore how mycoviruses could become powerful, self-spreading tools for sustainable agriculture — reshaping plant health from the inside out.
https://youtu.be/CGxSWkF762g?si=NERFkJY2J1bHdxFw
#fungi #mycology #agriculture #ecology
#aspergillus #education #academia
#phd_life #phdone #forest #mushrooms
#virus #mycovirus #crop #food #mycovirus #Science #nature #Farming #fungus #plants #foraging #Health #biology
Maïtané 👣
and 1 other
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🔴 L'agriculture de demain s'enseigne aujourd'hui. Mais justement, qu'apprennent les 15 500 élèves scolarisés dans les établissements agricoles de la région Bretagne ? Et dans quelles conditions ?
Nous avons pénétré là où nous n'étions pas désirés pour livrer trois nouveaux volets d'enquête. 1/
#splann #bretagne #breton #finistere #cotesdarmor #illeetvilaine #rennes #quimper #agriculture #agriculteurs #paysans #alimentation #production #enquete #journalisme #journalistes #investigation #fnsea
ProPublica
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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic
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To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/bird-flu-airborne-usda-pandemic?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post