Touch the Soil News #1796 (Feature Photo – Pigs – CCA SA 4.0 International Generic) Farmlandgrab news Muyuan Foodstuff company, is the world’s largest pork grower – producing 5 million pigs a year. Having so many animals in a confinement area, and keeping the areas free of waste and disease, is a high gamble according…
Touch the Soil News #1795 (Feature Photo – A Community Garden – CCA SA 4.0 International, Tdorante 10) Richmond, a town of 200,000 people lies in the middle of the larger metro area of Vancouver, British Columbia (population 2.6 million). Richmond just opened its 11th and largest community garden on Monday, April 4th, at which…
Positive Future News #911 (Feature Photo – Holstein Dairy Cow – Public Domain) The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, publishes price increases for primary food groups at the bulk – global trade – level every month. The FAO shocked economists with their March 2022 report. The Food Price Index went from…
Positive Future News #910 (Feature Photo – Growing Corn – GNU Free Documentation) The non-profit news portal called Farmlandgrab.org., brings us the story of farmland acquired not by farmers, but by investors foreign and domestic. One organization, The Land Matrix Initiative, reports that since 2000, roughly 82 million acres of farmland have been acquired by…
Positive Future News #909 (Feature Photo – Thailand Farming – CCA SA 4.0 International, Takeaway) Thailand, a nation of over 70 million people, and a national history that goes back 800 years, is facing extensive hunger. It is no surprise that the solution that Thai people are pursuing is not buying food from the global…
Positive Future News #908 (Feature Photo – Organic Produce – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Elina Mark) Farmland LP is an interesting business model. They buy farmland, transition the land to organics and upgrade all other aspects of the farm. Farmland LP then oversees the production while selecting the farmers that will grow the crops. Farmland…
Positive Future News #907 (Feature Photo – Wheat – Public Domain) When large commercial farms think of planting, pictures of big equipment come to mind. Now, there may be a new future for planting in the form of a swarm of small autonomous planters. You can visit the developing company’s website here and watch the…
Positive Future News #906 (Feature Photo – Wheat – Public Domain) Ukrainian Farmers, are showing their stuff. Successful Farming News reports that Ukraine agriculture expects to plant 32.4 million acres of crops in 2022, helping mitigate a volatile global trade market and calm extreme fears. You can read the full story here: https://www.agriculture.com/news/three-big-things/3-big-thing-today-april-4-2022
Touch the Soil News #1794 (Feature Photo – Wheat Harvest – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Michael Gabler) The Food and Agriculture Organization, which tracks global prices of key food products, reflects some noticeable increases in the agricultural groups of meat, dairy, cereal grains, vegetable oils and sugar. Averaged together, the price of these food groups,…
Positive Future News #905 (Feature Photo – Abandoned Stadium – Courtesy of Harrisburg City Farm) Harrisburg City Farms, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is transforming an abandoned high school stadium into an urban farm. This is probably the first time ever that a farm takes root in old bleacher seating. Fox 43 news brings the story about…
