U.S. Water Usage – 378 billion Gallons a Day

Positive Future News #913 (Feature Photo – Singapore – CCA 2.0 Generic, Ray in Manila) Water awareness is as essential as political awareness, if not more. Politics can change, access to water can’t. The story of water in the United States is simple. Water sources, from rivers and from pumping out of the ground, have…

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What Do Population Numbers Tell Farmers?

Touch the Soil News #1798 (Feature Photo  – Baling Hay for Livestock Feed – NRCS Public Domain) Worldometer (https://www.worldometers.info/) presents population growth numbers in a variety of different formats. So an interesting way to look at the numbers are the milestones at which the world adds a billion people: 1804 – 1 billion people (1…

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BRDG Park – If You Want to be Educated on the Nation’s Top Plant-Science Center

Touch the Soil News #1799 (Feature Photo  – Danforth Plant Science Center – CCA SA 4.0 International Generic) Called the Silicon Valley of agtech, the BRDG Park in St. Louis Missouri, is located on the campus of the Danforth Plant Science Center (https://brdgpark.com/) All of this together is attracting national and global companies and talent…

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An International Story – Water Gives Land its Value

Touch the Soil News #1797 (Feature Photo  Worrall Creek Aggregation – Courtesy of JLL Agribusiness) Queensland Country Life news, brings us the unusual story of the coming sale of a one of Australia’s largest farms – 66,000 acres. Called the Worral Creek Aggregation, the farm is in Australia, where few farms have adequate water. This…

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