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This Week's Ag Reading Picks

Here's How America Uses Its Land | Bloomberg Broken farm subsidy system favors the wealthiest | The Hill 338 Dairy farms shuttered in Wisconsin this year. Dairy farms across Wisconsin are ceasing operations�at a rate that is 30 percent higher than this time last year�as the plant-based milk industry continues to boom. | VegNews The Midwest�s Food System is Failing. Here�s Why. | Union of

They're Hot: Pot Pies

Homemade curry chicken pot pies. Photo by avlxyz Flickr. Last fall our travel destination was the Pacific Northwest. The unexpected food trend up there that jumped out at me was the popularity of pot pie venues scattered around Seattle and Bellingham, Washington. Most appeared to be ma and pa small family operations. After returning home, I saw an ad for Tip Top Savory Pies here in Boulder.

Global Food and Agriculture Photos July 29, 2018

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For What It's Worth: My Prairie T-shirt Art Entry

In the past, I've attended a couple Land Institute Prairie Festivals in Salina, Kansas. They are wonderful events that never disappoint. I am still on their Email list, and recently I received an Email from them soliciting art to be used on their upcoming festival tee shirts. Here is what I submitted, for what it's worth... ... accompanied with this description. In this design, I�ve used a

Work Horses Ploughing 2010

Work Horses. April 2010. Photo credit: Flickr Bernard Spragg. NZ. Highbank. Canterbury. New Zealand. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Ag Reading for This Week

Iowa's Poor Water Quality Goes South | NPR's On Point USDA's $12 billion farmer relief package | Reuters Changing diets and health in India | der Spiegel Dubai plans world�s biggest vertical farm with 130,000sqft facility | SlashGear Remove ethanol from our gasoline | The Oregonian Wild Horses in Wyoming | Mountain Living The Vindication of Cheese, Butter, and Full-Fat Milk | The Atlantic 12

3 U.S. Meat Production and Trade Graphs of Interest

The U.S. is increasing the amount of meat that it exports: Hog and broiler inventories have increased since 2000, especially hogs!: Livestock and poultry weights have increased progressively since 2000:

Pie Chart of China's Rapidly Growing Foreign Agriculture Investments

Note that North America is at 2%: Chinese foreign agricultural investment has grown exponentially since 2009. Initial investment growth was primarily aimed at expanding access to crop production, fishing ventures, and raw materials. Most such ventures targeted eastern Russia and neighboring Asian countries, attracted by relatively cheap, underutilized land. Chinese investments in Southeast Asia

Global Food and Agriculture Photos July 22, 2018

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1938 Ohio Wheat Harvest

Wheat harvest. Into the fields for sheaves of wheat, Central Ohio. 1938. Photo by Ben Shahn. FSA Administration photo. NYPL Digital collection. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

9 Recent Agriculture News Picks

Forests �essential� for the future, UN agriculture chief spells out in new report | UN News Is the organic seal worth it, given disputes on standards? | AP EPA scraps detailed plan to force U.S. refiners to blend more biofuels | Reuters Dubai plans world�s biggest vertical farm with 130,000sqft facility | SlashGear The big aims behind an effort to tackle the plague of third-world cooking fires

All About Corn in Graphs

Leading global exporters of corn through 2017: Leading world importers of corn through 2017: U.S. Domestic corn use (were it not for ethanol policy!, then what?): U.S. Feed Grain Production 2017/18: U.S. corn price received by farms and production: U.S. Corn acreage and yield through 2017:

Global Food and Agriculture Photos July 15, 2018

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1938 Ohio Corn Cultivating

Cultivating corn, central Ohio. 1938. Photo by Ben Shahn. FSA Administration photo. NYPL Digital collection. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Honey is Being Increasingly Imported

Domestic production of honey is significantly exceeded by the amount of honey imported into the United States each year. Since 2006, more than half of all honey supplied in the United States was imported, and that number reached 70 percent in 2017. This represents the highest import level on record, continuing the longer term trend of a growing share of honey supplies coming from foreign sources

Ten Ag Reading Picks

Climate change is real by Art Cullen | The Storm Lake Times This is important! My northeast Nebraska farm just received 8 inches of rain in less than 48 hours, something rare in the past. Other locations not far from them reported 12 inches. Here in Boulder, we experienced a "500 year flood" a few years ago, flooding our own basement. Rain deluges seems to be the trend. Rain clouds get stuck in

Global Food and Agriculture Photos July 8, 2018

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Collecting Pea Waste for Feed in Ohio in 1938

"At a pea vinery," central Ohio. Loading waste to be taken back to his farm for feeding. 1938. Photo by Ben Shahn. FSA Administration photo. NYPL Digital Collection. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Ag Reading Picks

Meat 2.0? Clean meat? Spat shows the power of food wording | AP SF Gate America�s cheese stockpile just hit an all-time high | Wash-Post Pruitt Seeks Biofuels Increase | The Hill Conagra buying Boulder Brands owner Pinnacle Foods in $10.9 billion deal | Denver Post These tiny little bugs are a harbinger of wetland health -- and they're disappearing | MPR News Frappuccino sales are struggling | AP

Hack: Miracle Grow Recipe Liquid

This solution can be sprayed on your plants, as you would use liquid fertilizer. Disclamer: I have not tried this, but it is circulating on the internet. 1 Gallon Water 1 Tablespoon Epsom Salt 1 teaspoon Baking Soda 1/2 teaspoon Ammonia