America’s Largest Farm Lobbying Organization Meets in Salt Lake City, Utah

Touch the Soil News #2047 (photo – Farm Workers in Strawberry Field) (Courtesy of USDA Public Domain) American Farm Bureau just had its 105th annual convention in Salt Lake City.   Established in 1909, the organization has affiliate organizations in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.   With an annual budget of around $2 million, the organization…

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Farm Labor Shortage – Spurs Agricultural Robots

Touch the Soil News #1394 (Feature photo – Swarms of Locusts in Yemen – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license – Goldlocki) AgFunder journalist Richard Hemphill brings us news about the emerging company MetoMotion and news greenhouse robot that harvest tomatoes. MetoMotion, a small 2- person company just received $1.5 million in funding to…

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