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Senegal's farmers adopt new tool to boost harvests: mobile phones
2016-06-16 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Walking through his dry millet field, Alioune Djaby, chief of Sikilo village, waits for a sign that rainfall is coming. Normally, he would look for clouds in the sky or birds singing. This time though, he's expecting a text message from the National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology. Senegalese farmers have long relied on traditional weather indicators, such as trees blooming or where birds set their nests, to manage their crops. But those have become unreliable as a result of increasingly...
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Global Warming Is Pushing Wine Harvests Earlier But Not Necessarily For The Better
2016-03-28 20:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Conversation: Wine grapes are one of the most valuable horticultural crops in the world, a globally important industry with commercial vineyards on six continents and all 50 U.S. states. Like many crops, these vineyards, and their grapes, are extremely sensitive to temperature and rainfall during the growing season. Climate and weather can affect the timing of harvest, the amount of fruit produced and even the ultimate quality of the wine. And with warming from human greenhouse gas emissions already manifesting...
Climate change driving early grape harvests in France, Switzerland - study
2016-03-22 17:24:00| Daily beverage news and comment - from just-drinks.com
The impact of drought on wine grape harvests has largely disappeared in France and Switzerland as overall climate change plays a larger role, according to a combined study from NASA and Harvard University.
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Monsanto Harvests Jobs To Cut Costs
2015-10-19 10:04:38| Chemicals - Topix.net
Monsanto has expectations for earnings per share to double by 2019, and while the global economic environment remains uncertain, we like the chances it will achieve such a goal. Monsanto recently developed a restructuring plan in which it will cut 2,600 jobs to reduce costs over the next 18-24 months.
Aemetis harvests demo crop of optimized biomass sorghum in California for advanced biofuels; ~90 days from planting to harvest
2015-10-05 13:55:32| Green Car Congress
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