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China Grains Output Faces Drought Threat That May Stoke Imports
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 5 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Drought is threatening China’s grains output, which may force it to re-enter the...
China Police Chief Stresses Food Security as Drought Lingers
Bloomberg· 21 hours agoThe head of China’s police has vowed to crack down on agricultural crimes to safeguard food...
China is getting too much rain in the south and not enough rain, plus a heat wave, in the north
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 3 days agoChina is being buffeted by two weather extremes, with heavy rain and flooding forcing the evacuation...
UN food chief: Poorest areas have zero harvests left
BBC via Yahoo News· 2 days agoMeanwhile, flash floods in Afghanistan earlier this year are estimated to have destroyed 24,000 hectares of land already...developing world when those...
Government Subsidies Keep Your Food Boring
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 4 days ago"It guarantees a profitable yield and revenue. At the same time, that discourages innovation...its deep root system not only helps it pull carbon out of...
Patrick Gottsch, Who Gave Voice to Rural America, Dies at 70
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoAfter some historically bad crop yields due to drought, his father told him there was no future for...
Environmentalists: Farm subsidies discourage water savings
Arizona Daily Star· 3 days agoA national environmental group is taking aim at two federally subsidized farm programs it says are...
Wheat harvest started strong, but some Kansas farmers not so lucky
KSNW Wichita via Yahoo News· 4 days ago“We have cut more wheat in the last day and a half than we did all last year,” he told Kansas Wheat....
Biofuels proponent joins fight against new vehicle emissions requirements
Iowa Capital Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoA national trade group that promotes ethanol joined its frequent foe — a trade group that promotes...
Oklahoma wheat harvest is sweeping up the plains: How this important crop is faring so far
Gannett via AOL· 5 days agoCamargo-Shattuck-Fort Supply, harvest 10% complete: Producers also got rolling in these areas over...