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Farming is new trend in Rancho Mission Viejo communities
2015-11-13 00:15:52| Agriculture - Topix.net
The Martin family, Daniel and April with their sons - Billy, 5 and Miles, 2 - at Sendero Farm in Rancho Mission Viejo. They are one of 63 households participating in the Rancho Mission Viejo community farm program.
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NFU Welcomes New Defra Campaign to Back British Farming
2015-11-06 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - The NFU has welcomed the launch of the new Defra five-year Great British Food campaign.
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Rising Temperatures Kick-Start Sub-Arctic Farming In Alaska
2015-11-01 13:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: We've heard a lot about the negative effects of climate change in the arctic and subarctic. But some Alaskans, like farmer Tim Meyers, are seeing warming temperatures as an opportunity. Now that potato harvest is underway at his Bethel farm, Meyers uses a giant potato washer, like a washing machine for root vegetables, to clean California white potatoes. They're some of the only commercially-produced vegetables in this southwestern Alaska region, about the size of Oregon. Meyers says the warming...
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The Sushi Project: Farming Fish And Rice in California's Fields
2015-10-29 14:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The idea of rearing salmon in fallowed rice fields started in a duck blind. Huey Johnson, Californias Secretary of Resources in the 1970s and at age 82 widely considered the grand old man of California environmentalists, is an avid hunter, who has spent hundreds of hours in Central Valley duck blinds. It is perhaps a testament to the contemplation induced by extended Resource Renewal Institute Aerial view of a Fish in the Fields site, where small forage fish are being raised in flooded, fallow...
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UK opposition farming emissions cuts 'could cost thousands of lives'
2015-10-28 13:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The UK governments opposition to binding cuts in pollution from farms could lead to 3,000 more deaths in the UK, according to research cited by the environmental NGO ClientEarth. An advisory paper sent to MEPs by the UKs environment department and seen by the Guardian, recommends voting down proposals in Strasbourg today for legally binding curbs on emissions of ammonia, methane and particulates from the agricultural sector. Cumulatively, they are thought to be responsible for an annual 400,000...
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