Touch the Soil News #1296 (Feature photo – Australian Sheep – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) Nations organizing around the World Trade Organization (WTO) have allowed a much more liberal flow of capital and ownership. It is easier for foreign nationals to buy and own land and assets in other nations. GAI media reports on the…
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Agricultural Pursuits in a Hungry World Go Sour
Linking Junk Food and Poor Psychological Health
Touch the Soil News #1294 (Feature photo – Junk Food – Public Domain) While we all know that healthier diets are linked to better physical health, a new study takes a look at the links to mental and psychological well-being. Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) takes a look at a new study that finds links to junk…
Emergence of the Russian iFarm
Touch the Soil News #1293 (Feature photo – Greenhouse Farming – CCA SA 3.0 Unported – Goldlocki) While controlled indoor vertical agriculture is not a new concept, it has reached the imagination of several Russian entrepreneurs that want to build automated vertical greenhouses for locations around the world. The plan is to not only provide…
Worthy of Note
Touch the Soil News #1292 (Feature photo – Soybeans – Public Domain) The largest U.S. soybean customer is China. The trade wars constricted that trade to a point where U.S. soybean stockpiles began growing, prices declined and Midwest farm bankruptcies began rising. With recent trade tensions going down with China, soybean sales to China have…
A New Battle Brewing Over GMOs
Touch the Soil News #1291 (Feature photo – A Field of GMO Corn – Public Domain) Now that GMO labeling has finally reached the food products on the shelves, the new labels are not forthcoming in their full disclosures. Phil Lempert (https://www.supermarketguru.com/) brings us some of the early news about reactions to the new GMO…
Working Towards A Real Future of Food
Touch the Soil News #1290 (Feature photo – The World’s Nations Supporting the FAO – By Alinor at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18346607) According to the latest report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the future of food is not a system prone to compromise eco-systems, food security, land,…
Interested in Fish Farming?
Touch the Soil News #1289 (Feature photo – Tilapia – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) AgFunder News recently highlighted a new startup called BioFishency. BioFishency builds water treatment appliances that eliminate ammonia buildup and oxygenate the water. This substantially reduces the amount of water needed to farm fish. It improves the health of fish and potentially…
Must See Movie – If You Plan to Raise Chickens
Is Urban Food the Next Mega-Trend for the World’s Cities?
Touch the Soil News #1287 (Feature photo – Local Farmers – Public Domain) An interesting article showed up in the U.S. News and World Report about growing food in cities. It is one of the most in-depth articles about food security for cities ever to hit mainstream media. What makes cities important is that there…