I didn’t think anyone still harvested celery by hand anymore. I thought they had all switched to mechanical harvesters a decade or so ago. That said all the harvesting jobs that require working bent over lopping off veggies is brutal work.

If I had edited that ad I would have included about 10 seconds of Reagan speaking those words in the first 10 - 15 seconds and the switched to voiceover before ending
again with Reagan. After all he’s been dead for decades, can’t expect people to remember his voice..

Haven’t tried that one but in Canada alcohol consumption is way down, especially with GenZ. Lots of carbonated flavoured waters are really popular.

The molecule that gives caraway seeds their flavor is the mirror image of the molecule that gives spearmint its flavor.

Don't disagree but expect there will be lots of political pressure when it happens

The ethanol and biofuel mandates' prime purpose is to subsidize farmers by creating an unlimited demand for corn, soybean etc. If they happen to help the environment too, that'd be a great accidental, if irrelevant, benefit.

I have wondered that myself. Seems like events are spiralling downwards. Will someone go too far and trigger a civil war. I hope not.

What a great story

Not surprising she'd get good tips. 15% of an average bill there would add up quickly.

Which winery? Been to Cooper Hawk near you a few times.

A dozen years ago I did a story on a German farmer who manually entering Waypoints on his RTK guidance lines to optimize his passes on fields. Has anyone automated this process yet? Thinking enter equipment size, drive perimeter, hit optimize?

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A boatload of windmill blades going by

A boatload of windmill blades going by

Easter Weekend. One of my rituals is listening to Handle's Messiah. It's not only a great piece of art, but as a person who's spent their 40+ years working as a contract creative professional, I relate and am in awe that he cracked it out in a week because he needed the money.

I just assume anything I read about Mark Carney at this stage is almost certainly mis/disinformation.

Feedlot pens in North America would also be a great use of solar panels. They'd generate power and double as shade structures. in Nort

The Furrow: Unexpected Fame Ewetopia Farms' YouTube channel turns Lynn McKay and Arnie Droogh into sheep celebrities.

#agsky Lynn McKay and Arnie Droogh discovered their sheep videos had accidentally made them Instagram and Youtube celebrities. www.deere.com/en/publicati...

The Furrow: Start to Finish Farmcrest Foods finds success through vertical integration.

#agsky Richard Bell only had $300 in his pocket and a passion for poultry when he immigrated to Canada from Northern Ireland in 1993. He turned it into Farmcrest Foods a vertically integrated marvel. www.deere.com/en/publicati...

The Furrow: Tray-Grown Strawberries Quebec strawberry producer pioneers new method

Tray grown strawberries reduce pressure and speeds up harvest www.deere.com/en/publicati...

Agree, that's why CPC hasn't fully jumped on the Trump anti-Ukraine bandwagon, it'd cost them votes in the CPC heartland

The world is filled with groups and nations far worse off than us. Ukraine is just one really high profile example, but no where near the grimmest one since the turn of the century.

I agree, I expect we'll see marginal land abandoned at a 1946-1955 level as it is no longer profitable to farm it. Likely the changing climate will give this process a boost as storms, droughts, floods make some areas to risky to farm and opens up new areas.

Plus again we don't actually sell SSA countries hardly anything. Our agricultural role there has been limited to giving them foreign aid money that they use to buy locally grown food.

Their birthrate, like the rest of the world's have been coming down steadily for the past 30 years. From what I understand any numbers that project SSA numbers doing that are assuming that their birthrate stays where it is at now and doesn't continue the same trend they've been on for 30 years.

The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear? The long read: Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria

About 400 million HA of farmland, an area about the size of the EU has been abandoned since the 1950's. The Guardian had a great article on it before Xmas. Great read : www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

But unlike before Haber Bosch, production won't be the issue, unless you count drowning in excess grain a production problem. It's a unique problem in human history. We've never faced a declining population before except from plagues.

But if you look where we sell our production you'll see the population is declining. China, Japan, Korea, Europe, Indonesia Even India's birthrate is below replacement. SubSaharan countries are still above, but their birthrate is dropping like a stone too. Plus they don't buy much from us.

Just watching 2 trends - rising yields and shrinking population (already occurring in our main export markets). All that worry about feeding 9 billion after 2050, now looks like we'll have the ag production to feed 9 billion but only be 8 billion people (and dropping). Means lots of abandoned farms

It's the FAFO school of parenting. Just walk around older cemeteries, ones that have been in use since the early 1900s, and note all the kids' graves. There are damned good reasons to be vaccinating kids against these common childhood diseases. Measles only kills .1%, not a lot unless it's your kid

True, especially when you look at the percentage of the major crops that are used as animal feed. Think dairy will be first impacted by precision fermentation to produce all the milk components.