Touch the Soil News #1818 (Feature Photo – Feedlot – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) NewsCenter1, brings the story of the coming of a new beef processing facility, which will be the largest in the U.S. At a price tag of $1.1 billion, the 1 million square foot facility will employ 2,500 people. It will take…
Touch the Soil News #1816 (Feature Photo – Vegetable Garden – CCA SA 2.0 Generic) Permaculture Apprentice brings an article on making a living from a 1.5 acre market garden. Certainly work efficiency is always a factor. Here are some insights to how one market garden makes a go of it. https://permacultureapprentice.com/how-to-make-a-living-from-a-1-5-acre-market-garden/
Positive Future News #929 (Feature Photo – Grain Harvest – CCA 2.0 Generic, Charles Knowles) According to the USDA, of the 895 million acres of farmland in America, approximately 315 million acres are in crops, and 580 million acres in are in pasture. The USDA’s Land Values 2021 Summary shows that farmland for crops increased…
Touch the Soil News #1812 (Feature Photo – Orthographic Map of China – CCA SA 3.0 Unported) China is a lot of things, but food secure is not one of them. According to the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WOAB), China needs to import approximately 135 million metric tonnes of agricultural commodities from around the world…
Positive Future News #916 (Feature Photo – John Deere Equipment– CCA SA 3.0 HCQ) Successful Farming news, reported on some novel information in the body of their daily headline report on “Wheat Attempts to Turn Higher”. The link below take you to the story. Go down the article to “Opening Comments: 9:00 A.M. Go down…
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,…
Touch the Soil News #1790 (Feature Photo AgTech Robot – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, Amazone GmbH & Co KG)) One of our favorite news sites for what’s going on in the world of agricultural technology is AgFunder News: https://agfundernews.com/ They cover everything from farm robots to food deliver robots. In fact, this week, a news…
Touch the Soil News #1782 (Feature Photo – School Gardening – CCA 2.0 Generic) WPTV5 from West Palm Beach brings an interesting story of how one non-profit is engaging grade school children to learn and help others through gardening. You can read the story and watch the video here: https://www.wptv.com/community/rosarian-academy-students-gardening-program-benefits-homeless
Positive Future #887 (Feature photo – Desalination Plant – CCA SA 3.0 Unported, James Grellier)) Modern civilization, more than at any time in the past, is kept alive through artificial means. This includes crop irrigation pumps, electricity, shelter, transportation and the list could go on. These artificial measures, have also pushed the limits of water…
Positive Future #885 (Feature photo – Farm Raiser Produce – Courtesy of Farm Raiser) We recently were doing research relative to the world’s farms and farmlands. The number of acres being farmed in the world total 12.6 billion acres. The FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) estimates that human-induced soil degradation, affects…
