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2022.07.26
China’s grouper ban creates great opportunity: agriculture minister
China’s grouper ban creates great opportunity: agriculture minister
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2022.07.26
High vegetable prices to remain as farmers struggle with production costs, labour shortage
One of Western Australia's largest vegetable growers says soaring production costs mean shoppers need to keep paying high prices for vegetables or risk having only imported frozen produce available in stores.
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2022.07.25
'This is the new normal': Salmon farming industry needs to prepare for further heatwaves
Marine heatwaves are likely to increase and farmers need strategies in place to protect fish health.
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2022.07.25
Vegan oyster prototype causes a stir
Cell-based seafood startup Pearlita has released the world’s first alternative oyster prototype – shell and all – to help meet demand for shellfish without harming marine habitats.
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2022.07.25
The case for paying carbon taxes on unsustainable food
Shopping sustainably is hard—but thoughtful price changes can nudge people in the right direction.
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2022.07.25
How Can Carbohydrate Biopolymers Protect Plants from Fungi?
In a paper recently published in the open-access journal Polymers, researchers reviewed the merits and demerits of protecting plants against pathogenic fungi using carbohydrate biopolymers. They assessed three polysaccharides namely alginate, cellulose...
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2022.07.25
Grave concern as lung sickness spreads among cattle in Namibia
Namibia’s Livestock Producers’ Organisation (LPO) has reacted with great concern to reports of 40 deaths among cattle, and clinical illness in a further 100 cattle, following an outbreak of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia.
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2022.07.25
Anaplasmosis in cattle
It's not the bacteria itself that hurts the cattle. It's the immune response to the bacteria that is the problem.
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2022.07.25
MSA research into ‘Wagyu effect’ and dairy beef cattle progresses
MSA research into ‘Wagyu effect’ and dairy beef cattle progresses
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2022.07.25
Modern Agriculture Foundation Celebrates Success of Alt-Protein Cohorts in MassChallenge Israel Accelerator
Modern Agriculture Foundation Celebrates Success of Alt-Protein Cohorts in MassChallenge Israel Accelerator