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Certain foods take much less water to produce than others. Our food’s water footprint is as important as carbon footprint. Agriculture irrigation accounts for 80-90% of U.S. water use. Take an on-line quiz to test your water footprint knowledge! https://okt.to/SNkHLp

Here’s a first, I spoke to Farming Today about the first phase of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs changes to wine regulations. It allows producers who want to do so to remove mushroom stoppers and foils, to make piquette, and (with legislation this year) to allow 200ml bottles for stills and half litre and pint bottles for sparkling. Hear about the choice this provides and how we expect the glorious rituals of opening sparkling wines to remain. 3 mins in. https://lnkd.in/exCMYfFv

If you remember a smirking Dwight Schrute say, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend," you'd definitely enjoy reading about farmers using the same logic to protect our food from hungry pests. 🐛 Happy to share my first article with SciCommCentral.com! Do read and share!

Check out this article from Midwest Living, which features 7 small businesses and how they use corn in their products. Corn is a very important staple crop and is used in a variety of Shagbark products. Shagbark is among one of the 7 businesses features in the article! Check it out here: https://loom.ly/YmpKY5A #corn #maize #farm #agriculture #staplecrops #ohiogrown #ohiomade

On roughly 6,000 acres in Montana, with views that stretch for miles and include five mountain ranges on a clear day, farmer, Brock Linker grows crops that range from chickpeas to canola, and also runs cattle. Mixing up crops and raising animals were once more widespread on farms, but have fallen out of favor with the rise of Big Agriculture. When King Arthur was spinning up plans for its Climate Blend, the company identified Linker as an ideal farmer to plant the first batch of perennial wheat. He seeded a few hundred acres in October 2022 and harvested the crop in August 2023. When the flour hit store shelves in November, Linker started getting pictures from friends and family of the green bags in the wild. King Arthur’s Climate Blend has garnered an array of five-star reviews on the company’s website, and with good reason: It makes a great sandwich loaf that’s subtly but unmistakably different and more dynamic than one made with standard whole wheat flour. Linker calls the early demand “consumer validation” of the practices he uses on his farm, and says it could resonate with other farmers. Climate Blend could be compared to craft beer: It won’t completely displace the Bud Light that is standard wheat, but does offer farmers the chance to rebuild soil health and sequester carbon. Nor will flour buyers suffer for buying something a little different each season. #wheat #notill #breadmaking #flour

The #salmon industry is projected to remain the world's most profitable aquaculture sector in the first half of 2024. Watch our latest Tridge Insights video and learn how you can enter or grow your business in this industry: https://lnkd.in/gwNThTvT #EmpowerTomorrow #pricedata #agriculture #marketintelligence #dataanalytics

Extract a valuable by-product from the remaining meat on the salmon frame after filleting. Let’s show you how! At Uni-Food Technic, we saw a potential in extracting the remaining meat from the salmon frames when the salmon had been filleted so that it could be utilized as a valuable by-product. In fact, we discovered that with the scraping machine you can extract 360 kg of meat on an eight-hour workday with just one operator - depending of course on the size of the frame and the speed of the operator. Take a look at the video and be inspired on how to improve the yield on your production line. #foodprocessing #processingequipment #fish

California, the sole source of tomatoes for Heinz ketchup in the U.S., recently faced its hottest July on record. Climate scientist Daniel Swain described the extreme heat as unprecedented in intensity and duration, with temperatures surpassing 100F (38C) in many areas. This heatwave poses challenges for tomato farmers, impacting the crucial flowering period necessary for fruit production. To combat the effects of the scorching temperatures, farmers are adapting their practices. Strategies include burying irrigation systems deep in the soil to promote root water absorption and monitoring natural precipitation to optimize hydration levels for the tomatoes. Additionally, some farmers, like those at Bowles Farming, are resorting to innovative solutions such as spraying tomato leaves with a clay polymer for sun protection, drawing parallels to elephants throwing mud on their backs. #California #HeinzKetchup #ClimateChange #TomatoFarming #Innovation

Introducing this next course in TXFED.org’s Beyond Fresh Online series: Regulations for Value-Added Products. This course will familiarize you with food safety regulation basics and best practices for compliance. Help your value-added business grow with these strategies, resources, and expert insights all packed into a quick, free, online course complete with interactive activity downloads. 🌱👨🌾🥕 Join us in reshaping the future of farming with value-added products and enroll today! #farmers #farmersmarket #valueadded #texasfarmers

I may be just a tad biased, but there's some great insights in this article around the role farm management tools have to play in the supply chain and how reporting tools like Trev are supporting Co-op farmers. #farmreporting #benchmarking #data #strategicasset #farmsource #trev