Sunday, December 22

Tag: Agriculture

Grow vegetables in CT and save money
6Apr By adminNo Comments
Money

Grow vegetables in CT and save money

Anyone who grocery shops on a regular basis has likely noticed a higher tally at the checkout counter. The latest consumer pricing analysis from the USDA is predicting a 1.3 percent increase in food prices. While we can’t do much to lower the prices, one thing we can do is grow some of our own vegetables and herbs. The investment in a small 100 square foot or so garden is not large, and one can be assured of healthy, high quality fresh produce. Vegetable gardeners can also control what, if any, types of pesticides are used on the plants. One source suggested that a $70 investment in plants and seeds could produce a harvest worth $600 or more over the growing season. Already having basic garden tools was probably taken for granted. If yard space is limited or too shaded, consider renting a...
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Rare human case of bird flu contracted in Texas following contact with dairy cattle
2Apr By adminNo Comments
Health

Rare human case of bird flu contracted in Texas following contact with dairy cattle

A rare human case of bird flu has been reported in Texas, after a person come into contact with cattle suspected of being infected. The announcement comes days after federal agencies said the virus had spread to dairy cattle across multiple states, including Texas. The Texas Department of State Health Services said the patient's only experienced symptom was eye inflammation. The person, who has remained unnamed, was tested late last week and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the results over the weekend. The person is now being treated with the antiviral medication oseltamivir, which according to the Mayo Clinic can be used to treat influenza A and B, as well as the swine flu. Human cases of bird flu, otherwise known as H5N1, are known to produce a range of symptoms...
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The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change
30Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

The Foods the World Will Lose to Climate Change

There’s no denying it: Farming had a rough year. Extreme weather spun up storms and floods, unseasonal freezes and baking heat waves, and prolonged parching droughts. In parts of the world in 2023, tomato plants didn’t flower, the peach crop never came in, and the price of olive oil soared.To be a farmer right now—or an agronomist or an agricultural economist—is to recognize how closely those weird weather events are linked to climate change. In fact, when the United Nations Climate Change Summit, known as COP28, ran in Dubai earlier this month, it featured a 134-country pact to integrate planning for sustainable agriculture into countries’ climate road maps.As the agriculture sector looks toward 2024, crop scientists are working to get ahead of ruinously unstable weather. They are envisi...
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Climate Cookbooks Are Here to Change How You Eat
3Dec By adminNo Comments
Technology

Climate Cookbooks Are Here to Change How You Eat

Cookbook authors have a few options. They could write a regionally specific cookbook or a mass-market one starring ingredients that grow sustainably in lots of places (as One did). Or they could write a cookbook that samples vast biodiversity at some cost to sourceability—that’s the approach the UN cookbook took.“There are many cookbooks that could … have 90 percent of the recipes be part of your staple at home,” Cruz said. “But that serves a different purpose.” The UN cookbook is instead “almost a launching point into everyone’s own culinary exploration and everyone’s own culinary journey.”That exploratory emphasis—embodied not just in the recipes but in accompanying carbon and nutrition calculations and in principles that offer starting points rather than answers—puts it at one end of t...
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Climate change threatens India’s agricultural backbone, impacting food security and economy
3Dec By adminNo Comments
Business

Climate change threatens India’s agricultural backbone, impacting food security and economy

A comprehensive analysis titled 'Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in India,' released today by Climate Trends, a Delhi-based climate thinktank, sheds light on the profound vulnerability of India's agrarian sector, which employs 40% of the country's labor force. The report underscores rising temperatures' detrimental effects, projecting a significant reduction in crop yields and a surge in food price inflation, reaching 11.51% in 2023.Climate trends unveils disturbing findings on India's agricultural vulnerability:The report collates scientific evidence and public data, revealing the escalating threat to India's agriculture, primarily linked to changing patterns in the summer monsoon season—an integral component of the nation's agrarian economy.Key findings include a 6% decline in ...
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How Starbucks Lost the Top Spot in China’s Coffee Race
19Nov By adminNo Comments
World

How Starbucks Lost the Top Spot in China’s Coffee Race

Listen to article(2 minutes)Starbucks is losing its prime spot among chains racing to meet China’s growing thirst for coffee.Luckin Coffee has surpassed Starbucks as China’s biggest coffee chain by sales and units, company reports show, a comeback for the Chinese company after an accounting scandal that stalled its growth.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Health Care Roundup: Market Talk
14Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Health Care Roundup: Market Talk

Updated Nov. 14, 2023 5:07 pm ETThe latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector. Published exclusively on Dow Jones Newswires at 4:20 ET, 12:20 ET and 16:50 ET.1155 ET – Canopy Growth has been blowing through far less cash after exiting its BioSteel business, but John Zamparo of CIBC says debt still weighs heavily on the cannabis company. In a report, the analyst says even by approaching positive Ebitda territory early next year, the improvement doesn’t address Canopy’s large and growing debt load. “Even if Canopy manages a 5% Ebitda margin, that still implies an annual free cash flow loss of more than $75 million because of interest charges,” he says. Instead, Zamparo thinks that only an equity issuance over the next few years can help solve the issue, “and recent examples of thi...
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As Chinese Tastes Change, Farmers Everywhere Rip Up and Replant
11Nov By adminNo Comments
World

As Chinese Tastes Change, Farmers Everywhere Rip Up and Replant

By Jon Emont and Trang Bui Updated Nov. 11, 2023 12:12 am ETListen to article(2 minutes)EA YONG, Vietnam—In the verdant highlands of central Vietnam, warehouses the size of airplane hangars dominate small farming towns, bristling with mounds of tropical fruit. The bounty is destined for a colossal market: China.  Farmers are felling coffee trees traditionally grown in this cool hilly region to plant spiky durians, pungent fruits that have become wildly popular in China. They are reaping the windfall to buy new irrigation systems, pay off loans and build shiny marble facades to their homes. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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