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Thanks for visiting Big Picture Agriculture. Please also visit my site, Agriculture News Daily for up-to-the-minute comprehensive agricultural news. There are news links below, as well.  

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FLOOD, DROUGHT, AND A POLITICAL INVASION: A 2019 LAMENT FROM RURAL IOWA by WALLY FALCON* This posting, my eighth annual edition, comes again from our mid-sized corn, soybean, and cattle farm in Linn County, Iowa. My wife and I may not be typical owners, but our farming operation is a fair representation of what is happening in rural America. The overwhelming reaction for 2019 is, “Wow, what a

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As Prairies Get Plowed for Biofuels, Greens Demand EPA Act | Bloomberg A breakthrough to bring driverless tractors into the mainstream? A startup in Iowa says it has fixes to many of the obstacles. | Star Tribune Nutrition Goddess Marion Nestle on the One Thing She’d Change About How We Eat. | Bon Appetit ‘Heartbreaking’ Drought Forces Canadian Ranchers to Cull Herds | Bloomberg PepsiCo to pump

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I've always been impressed whenever I've had amaranth, in cookies, and as a morning porridge. It grows in my state of Colorado.

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Unloading Platform Pickaway Livestock Cooperative Association, central Ohio. Summer 1938. Photographer: Ben Shahn. FSA photograph. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture — lest we forget how things used to be.

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Rural Mainstreet Index Expands for October: Bankers Expect Farmland Prices to Continue Decline | Creighton University DowDuPont to Record $4.6 Billion Charge as Agriculture Unit Suffers; The charge reflects the many challenges facing seed and pesticide makers | WSJ The rise of the robot farmer. Animals farmed, tiny automated machines, fewer chemicals, more efficient. | The Guardian Government

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This post is republished from one of my favorite farming organizations, The Land Stewardship Project, out of Minnesota. And the article was written by their editor, Brian DeVore, who is a great writer. He has just recently published a book, Wildly Successful Farming - Sustainability and the New Agricultural Land Ethic, University of Wisconsin Press. I hope to see it under our Christmas tree at

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Navajo hogan and cornfield near Holbrook, Arizona, 1889. Photo credit: Smithsonian Institution. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture — lest we forget how things used to be.

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Doubling down on the biofuel boondoggle | Wash-Post Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits | Nature Why we need small farms - A photography project celebrates the small-scale and family-run farms that produce 70 percent of the world’s food. | National Geographic Meet the U.S. farmers who love Trump’s China trade war | Axios Ainsworth, Nebraska couple hope to draw other

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Credit: FAO.

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Dr. Harvey W. Wiley conducting experiments in his laboratory in the Department of Agriculture (two assistants unidentified) Harvey Washington Wiley (October 30, 1844, Kent, Indiana - June 30, 1930, Washington, D.C.) was a noted chemist involved with the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906. Wiley was offered the position of Chief Chemist in the United States Department of

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Oil industry, green groups join to oppose Trump’s ethanol plan | The Hill Let me count the ways increasing corn ethanol production by 50% would exacerbate an already bad policy... human health - as a resident of the brown cloud crowd on the front range of Colorado where we like to get outdoors each day, I shudder to think of our air quality getting even worse because of a new 15%

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Find out some interesting historical facts about cocoa in this info graphic. You may click on it to enlarge it.

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Farmers hoe or "tend the land" owned by Dave Lewis, an African American farmer on May 8, 1940. Mr. Lewis owns the 575 acre farm in Macon County, Alabama. Photo: USDA. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture — lest we forget how things used to be.

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One researcher from the University of Michigan (UE) says that growing and harvesting bioenergy crops is a poor way to fight climate change — instead, we should keep these areas wild and increase forest cover. | ZME Science Will World War Three Be Fought Over Water? (22 minutes podcast) | Science Friday Here’s What Agriculture of the Future Looks Like: The Multiple Benefits of Regenerative

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The watermelon originated in South Africa. This infographic from James Kennedy wordpress demonstrates how much humans have intervened in the breeding of watermelon for better qualities - size, seedlessness, sweetness, adaptability to different regions, and width of rind. The watermelons we bought this summer were nearly perfect.

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A farm family poses outside their sod house. Note the clothes made from the same bolt of cloth in East Custer County, Nebraska, circa 1888. Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society. USDA photo. (1888 was the year of the big blizzard.) Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture — lest we forget how things used to be.

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Will organic revolution boost farming in India? | BBC (with lovely video) Could we save the world if we all went vegan? The amount of farmland needed to sustain human life would shrink by 3.1bn hectares – the size of the African continent | FT Japan teams with Southeast Asia to protect its prized fruits; Experts will help install law that guards against intellectual property theft | Nikkei Asian

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This subject is not new to Big Picture Agriculture... That’s according to a group of architecture students at MIT who have developed a new design for building massive structures out of timber called the Longhouse. The group will be presenting their vision for a community centered co-working space at the Maine Mass Timber Conference in October, a conference dedicated to finding more sustainable

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Readers, once again, we are privileged to host this summer's end wrap-up on an Iowa farm by Stanford's Professor, Walter P. Falcon. There's nothing else like it that I'm aware of, given his incredibly unique perspective. He is an excellent writer and his writing always contains some real nuggets for those paying close attention. --k.m. Field Notes from an Iowa Farm: Prices, Politics, and

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Morning on the Farm 1897. Library of Congress. Otherwise, unknown details. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture — lest we forget how things used to be.

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