By Tyler Durden Did you know that over two-thirds of national crops originated from somewhere else? Humans have been selecting and growing crops for specific traits since the origins of agriculture some 10,000 years ago, shaping where and what crops are grown today. However, as…
By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Ninety-nine percent of pregnant women are exposed to glyphosate, a chemical often found in the weedkiller product Roundup, according to new research from the Indiana University School of Medicine. The study finds that glyphosate may be associated with lower birth weights in…
The old saying, “You ain’t much if you ain’t Dutch” is now turned on its head with “If your’e Dutch, you ain’t got much.” As predicted, environmental extremism is driving thousands of Dutch farmers off their land, first by limiting essential nitrogen-based fertilizer and now…
By Dave Goulson, University of Sussex A new paper shows how the lifespan of the adult honeybee appears to have shrunk by nearly 50% in the past 50 years. The European Red List for Bees suggests nearly one in ten species of wild bees are…
By Birsen Filip In July 2022, the Canadian government announced its intention to reduce “emissions from the application of fertilizers by 30 percent from 2020 levels by 2030.” In the previous month, the government of the Netherlands publicly stated that it would implement measures designed…
By Dr. Joseph Mercola Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, is best known for its flagship product Roundup,1 the active ingredient in which is glyphosate. Monsanto-Bayer has been the defendant in thousands of cases alleging Roundup caused the plaintiffs’ cancers. However, the most recent personal injury…
By Tyler Durden La Niña has returned for the third consecutive winter, allowing for drier-than-average conditions across America’s crop belt. Some farmers told Bloomberg that conditions are so dry that “fertilizer is evaporating from the soil, and plants are struggling to emerge from the ground.” The odds are stacking…
Op-Ed by Neenah Payne Dr. Zach Bush’s Urgent Prescription To Save America shows that Dr. Zach Bush warns that we are in the Sixth Great Extinction now and human survival depends on the urgent restoration of our soils to provide the nutritious foods we need….
By Colin Todhunter The article below was written the day before India’s state-run biotech regulator, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee (GEAC), approved genetically modified (GM) mustard for commercial cultivation. This decision was taken on 26 October 2022. The regulatory clearance for GM mustard means the…
By Tyler Durden We recently outlined “Orange Juice Prices Could “Increase Substantially” As Hurricane Pummels Florida’s Top Citrus Grow Region.”And that’s precisely what’s happening today. First, let’s begin with US stockpiles of cold-stored orange juice plunged by 43% in September from a year earlier — the…
By Tyler Durden Europe’s fertilizer supply crunch continues to tighten after Yara International ASA announced Thursday that third-quarter ammonia output was slashed due to skyrocketing natural gas prices, putting more upward pressure on food inflation as the cost-of-living crisis worsens. The Norwegian producer said ammonia…
By Redacted Dutch farmers are losing their battle against the globalist WEF and these draconian environmental policies. Over 17,000 farmers in the Netherlands are being affected. The story doesn’t end there because it’s crushing farmers from Germany to New Zealand. Academic Researcher Ralph Schoellhammer joins…
By Tyler Durden Two troubling developments may reignite global food crisis fears. The first is Russia’s Geneva UN ambassador is prepared to reject a Black Sea grain agreement renewal that would disrupt Ukraine’s farm goods exports. The second is government data from the US that…
By Video Volunteers This compilation of two posts by Maya Khodve originally appeared on Video Volunteers, an award-winning international community media organisation based in India. An edited version is published below as part of a content-sharing agreement (with Global Voices). It is ironic that the…
By Tyler Durden The first crop damage estimates are in for Florida’s citrus groves following Hurricane Ian last week, and they point to utter devastation in certain parts of the state, sending orange juice prices Monday to almost six-year highs. Bloomberg spoke with Ray Royce, executive…
By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira Nanoplastics are making their way into our food, and likely accumulating in our bodies as a result, according to a recent study. Researchers from the University of Eastern Finland have created a fingerprint-based technique to detect tiny plastic particles in organisms. The…
By Tyler Durden A drought is drying up parts of the Mississippi River, a major export channel for corn and soybeans. Barges cannot haul farm goods at full capacity because of shrinking water levels, sparking a vessel shortage that has sent transport prices to record…
By John Anderer Modern farmers are feeling increasingly unappreciated and isolated, according to researchers from the University of Exeter’s Centre for Rural Policy Research and national charity The Farming Community Network (FCN). Farming is an absolutely essential industry, and farmers often work long hours and…
By Tyler Durden New satellite imagery shows a large swath of California’s rice fields has been left barren without harvest as fears of a “mini dust bowl” emerge due to diminishing water supplies. Kurt Richter, a third-generation rice farmer in Colusa, the rice capital of…
By Kristoffer Mousten Hansen Earlier this year, Our World in Data celebrated the fact we have now passed “peak agricultural land”: over the last few decades, the global land area devoted to food production has declined. While the decline is not large and while the…
