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Jackfruit heralded as 'miracle' food crop
2014-04-23 13:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: It's big and bumpy with a gooey interior and a powerful smell of decay - but it could help keep millions of people from hunger. Researchers say jackfruit a large ungainly fruit grown across south and south-east Asia could be a replacement for wheat, corn and other staple crops under threat from climate change. The World Bank and United Nations warned recently that rising temperatures and unpredictable rainfall had already reduced yields of wheat and corn, and could lead to food wars within...
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Warmer Climate Could Signal Major Crop Shifts in Brazil
2014-04-18 07:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Brazil may see a mass migration of crops and farm workers from huge swaths of currently tillable lands to more temperate zones as global warming takes hold, according to leading climate experts in the country. Longtime Brazilian climate researcher Hilton Silveira Pinto points to the drought thats cutting grain and coffee output this year as an indicator that rising global temperatures may already be impacting the countrys crops. "This is a taste of what is to come in the future," said Pinto,...
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Expert Says WASDE Report Will Help Ease Fear of Low Crop Prices
2014-04-11 16:23:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Purdue University Ag Answers The United States Department of Agriculture's April 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) continued a series of recent reports that have offered corn and soybean producers a more optimistic grain-price outlook than what was expected for most of the winter, Purdue Extension agricultural economist Chris Hurt says. read more
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6 Tips for a good corn crop
2014-04-09 23:08:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Source: Ohio State University Help your corn crop get off to a good start this year with these tips from Ohio State University. From planting timing and tillage to seeding depth and rates, these tips will help alleviate mistakes during crop establishment and increase corn yield potential. read more
Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner
2014-03-26 00:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Arizona State University: Results from a new study co-authored by Netra Chhetri, a faculty member at the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, show global warming of only 2 degrees Celsius will be detrimental to three essential food crops in temperate and tropical regions. And beginning in the 2030s, yields from those crops will start to decline significantly. "This study has been able to quantify the likely impacts of differing degrees of climate change on yields, by crop and by region,'...
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