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Hawaii bill challenges counties' rights to regulate farming
2015-02-06 08:41:10| Agriculture - Topix.net
Kauai County Councilman Gary Hooser testifies before the Hawaii House Committee on Agriculture on Thursday, Feb. 5, 2015, in Honolulu. Hooser told the committee that counties should have the right to enact their own rules to regulate the agriculture industry.
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Decline Predicted in Profitability of UK Farming
2015-02-04 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Defra’s latest Farm Business Income forecasts predict a decline in the profitability of farming across the majority of farming sectors and serve as a warning as to how much agriculture is susceptible to increased volatility, said the National Farmers Union (NFU).
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Farming Now Worse Climate Than Deforestation
2015-02-03 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The federal raids in Alta Floresta, Brazil surprised locals in 2005. The year before, nearly 60,000 acres of rainforest had been torn out of the municipality. Now farmers and loggers were being arrested by armed police, accused of environmental crimes. "It was a radical operation,' the newly elected mayor later recalled during an interview with a Princeton University researcher. "All our economic activity stopped.' A few years later, Brazil's central bank made it harder for property owners there,...
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Ukrainian PEDv Outbreaks a Warning Sign for UK Pig Farming
2015-01-23 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UKRAINE - European pig farmers need to stay vigilant as the American strain of the Porcine Epidemic Diarrhoea (PEDv) is detected across farms in Ukraine, writes Lucy Towers, ThePigSite Editor.
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Rising meat consumption pushes farming past deforestation as global warming driver
2015-01-19 00:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: Agriculture has surpassed deforestation and land use change as a driver of greenhouse gas emissions, argues a paper published in Global Change Biology. The research, led by Francesco N. Tubiello of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), looked at emissions from all human sources, breaking them into five categories: buildings, energy, industry, transport and "Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses" or AFOLU. Within that last category, the authors disaggregated crop and livestock...
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