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Securing Future Success of Farming
2013-08-16 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Successful businesses have competent and motivated managers, work collaboratively, innovate and ensure knowledge is transferred between enterprises. These skills are essential to any business and vital to the future success of the land based sector and rural economy.
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NPA Backs British Farming
2013-08-15 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Everyone will win if Britain’s pig farmers, with their uniquely high standards of husbandry, are encouraged to gently expand and reduce the nation’s yawning balance of trade gap in pork and pork products, according to the National Pig Association (NPA).
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Scientists Say Nature Is Better at Carbon Farming
2013-08-11 17:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: Large forests planted with a single species of tough small trees could capture enough carbon from the atmosphere to slow climate change and green the world's deserts at the same time, researchers say. A group of German scientists says the tree Jatropha curcas is resistant to arid conditions and can thrive where food crops would not survive. Jatropha curcas could be the way to remove atmospheric carbon, the researchers say. Unlike other geo-engineering schemes, which are expensive and rely...
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Growth of farming bubble threatens 5trn catastrophe
2013-08-09 03:36:22| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Independent: The threat posed to agriculture by environmental hazards such as climate change and water scarcity is now so great that it could wipe as much as 5 trillion off the value of the worlds farm land, equipment and stock in any one year, a heavyweight study is warning. Agriculture in the UK and worldwide is under huge financial and physical stress. A surge of investment on the back of a boom in the global food commodities market meets an increasingly precarious physical environment for farming creating...
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The Future of Farming, Part 1: Controlling the Environment
2013-08-06 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Famine... or feast? Soil... or hydroponics, aquaponics, aquaculture or aeroponics? Nine billion hungry human beings will be living on planet Earth by 2050. "We will need to produce more food in the first half of this century than we did in the previous 100 centuries combined," declared Tony Kajewski, president of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers.
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