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Synthetic Molecule Could Ensure Crop Survival in Face of Climate Change
2013-07-03 16:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: Botanists have identified an inexpensive synthetic chemical capable of mimicking the plant stress hormone ABA that helps them cope with drought conditions - a discovery researchers and industry giants both believe could be used to help save plants and increase crop yields in a world of increasing weather extremes. Called quinabactin, the study was led by Sean Cutler, a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside and comes at a time when farmers in the United States are witnessing...
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Pork Commentary: Two Big US Reports - Hog Inventory & Crop Report
2013-07-03 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - Looks like to us little change year over year. The industry has not expanded or contracted. It’s been steady as it gets, writes Jim Long in his latest "Pork Commentary".
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New crop of First Coast Realtors learn lessons from housing crash to forge new careers
2013-07-02 11:42:17| Real Estate - Topix.net
In 2010, it was a buyer's market and many realtors were giving up on the real estate industry and it wasn't clear if the business would ever be the same.
Spain's wetlands wildlife at risk from illegal boreholes for strawberry crop
2013-06-28 18:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Spain must act urgently to stop illegal water extraction from a protected national park or risk the wildlife-rich wetlands being placed on a list of world heritage sites in danger, a UN agency has warned. Doana national park in Andalusia is threatened by huge demand for water, fuelled by a strawberry industry which supplies British supermarkets. Some producers in the area are accused of using illegal boreholes to draw water from underground aquifers, which the fragile ecosystem is dependent...
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Crop yields no longer keeping up with population growth
2013-06-26 21:48:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: If the world is to grow enough food for the projected global population in 2050, agricultural productivity will have to rise by at least 60%, and may need to more than double, according to researchers who have studied global crop yields. They say that productivity is not rising fast enough at present to meet the likely demands on agriculture. The researchers studied yields of four key staple crops-maize, rice, wheat and soybeans-and found they were increasing by only about 0.9% to 1.6% a year....
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