New publication: Synergistic interaction of #phosphate nanoparticles from #fish by-products and phosphate-solubilizing bacterial consortium on #maize growth and #phosphoruscycling. #nanofertilizers #agriculture
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2025.179082
Our lives depend on seeds. Trump’s cuts put our vast reserves at risk
Thor Hanson
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/03/seed-reserves-trump-cuts
#agriculture #seeds #biodiversity #uspol
How Ontario's forgotten Farmerettes helped feed the nation during WW II
During and after the Second World War, thousands of Ontario girls became Farmerettes, taking on the work to support Canada’s food supply. Their contributions were largely forgotten — until now. The new documentary We Lend a Hand premieres in Sudbury on Friday, and features first-hand...
#history #agriculture #women #war #Ontario #Canada
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sudbury/farmerettes-documentary-sudbury-1.7500205?cmp=rss
"Big Data applications are intrinsically socio-technical; their development and deployment are a product of social interactions between people, institutional and regulatory settings, as well as the technology itself. "
“If they don’t tell us what they do with it, why would we trust them?” Trust, transparency and benefit-sharing in Smart Farming
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.njas.2018.11.002#abstract
Farmers have battled floods, frost and drought — and now US tariffs
By Stacey Pestrin, Josephine Lim, and Daniel Keane
The imposition of US import tariffs is the latest in a long series of challenges for SA farmers, who have battled frost and flooding in recent years, and are currently contending with drought.
#BeefCattleFarming #LivestockFarming #Viticulture #TradeAgreements #Trade #Agriculture #StaceyPestrin #JosephineLim # #DanielKeane
“This investment allows us to push innovation even further—developing reliable, science-backed biological solutions that improve soil health, strengthen crops, and reduce dependence on heavy chemical inputs.”
How philanthropists are destroying African farms – video https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/apr/03/how-philanthropists-are-destroying-african-farms-video #Climatecrisis #Foodsecurity #Philanthropy #Biodiversity #Agriculture #Farming #Africa #Seeds #Kenya #Food
Le biocontrôle regroupe un ensemble de techniques de protection des végétaux fondées sur une régulation naturelle des agresseurs des cultures. Bien installés dans les vergers et le maraîchage, ces produits arrivent dans les grandes cultures.
Huit pages de témoignages d'agriculteurs dans le n°114 de Terre-net Le Magazine.
"Diversity is a core component of resilience, so we need rapid, ongoing and diverse adaptation of our regional food systems – everywhere, all the time. If we’ve been preserving all these seeds for some imagined future need, then the need is now. Arguably, it’s already too late"
#Biodiversity #SeedLibrary #HeritageSeeds #Agriculture #ClimateEmergency
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/02/seeds-biodiversity-hurricane-helene
Manitoba puts up money for the agricultural sector in the face of tariffs
The Manitoba government is promising $150 million for the agricultural sector to help handle tariffs imposed by the United States and China.
#agriculture #politics #economy #trade #Manitoba #UnitedStates
https://globalnews.ca/news/11113233/manitoba-puts-up-money-for-the-agricultural-sector-in-the-face-of-tariffs/
#education #agriculture #SchoolGardens #gov
'The popularity of farm to school legislation is rapidly increasing. Between 2021 and 2023, 43 states and DC proposed 296 bills that relate to at least one of farm to school’s three core elements–school gardens, education and local procurement. Of these bills, 128 passed.'
Pourtant je m'étais renseigné, informé, j'avais demandé à des collègues et amis des conseils.
Mais bizarrement personne ne m'a dit "fais pas le con", et du coup, bah moi, bam, qu'est-ce que je fais ? 
bref... donc, foin, espace d'abri, vermifuges, onglons, etc. ça va a peu près. Juste apparemment avec les bêtes faut être patient et pas chercher à leur faire peur. Incroyable non ?
Heureusement que je suis maraîcher hein ! De toute façon, éleveur c'est clair que j'aurais pas pu !
Mastodon! I'm delivering a talk to a couple of grade 9 classes in a month on the use of space (mainly satellites, but probes to other planets, comets, etc., will be included).
How does your work benefit from satellites?
I'm thinking of a direct use of the data, as opposed to stuff like “internet access” or “my bank relies on satellites to transfer my grant money from one account to another” 
Anecdotes, rants, personal stories are all fair game 
(To the inevitable suggestion that I just Google this, yes, I can, and have, but I want the human element - I want to be able to say "someone I ‘know’ uses satellites for their job, and this is what they like about the tech”)
Hashtag suggestions are welcome.
(Also - question: Does Mastodon discriminate hashtags with different capitalization? Are #Astronomy and #astronomy functionally different? We *really* need some kind of ISO standard 
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#Archaeology #Physics #SolarActivity #Geology #SevereWeather #Climate #ClimateChange
#Satellite #Satellites #Agriculture #oceanography
Nanotech-induced cooling found to improve crop yields in arid climates
#agriculture #farming #nanotechnology #materials #water
https://phys.org/news/2025-03-nanotech-cooling-crop-yields-arid.html
'While food standards remain a red line in negotiations, which are expected to continue beyond Wednesday, giving U.S. producers greater access to the U.K. market would put Britain’s farmers — already infuriated by tax changes — under further pressure.'
https://www.politico.eu/article/britain-does-not-deny-concessions-on-agriculture-in-uk-us-talks/
'Vance said there had been “infringements on free speech” in Britain, which “also affect American technology companies and, by extension, American citizens.”'
Treated effluent water to grow crops, saving rivers and oceans
By Jennifer Nichols
An irrigation scheme will divert nutrient-rich, treated effluent water to crops instead of into sensitive waterways after a $120 million project secured final approval in south-east Queensland.
France 2024 wine production seen dropping 22% on bad weather https://www.diningandcooking.com/1993494/france-2024-wine-production-seen-dropping-22-on-bad-weather/ #agriculture #Agriculture(Industry) #alcohol #ClimateChange #EUROPE #FoodAndDrink #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #Wine
Outback 'boneyards' emerging, more rain to come for flooded Queenslanders
By Hannah Walsh
Queenslanders displaced by catastrophic flooding are sitting tight as they wait to return to their homes, but it is already clear that the road to recovery will be long and difficult.
Le Jardin des Faunes 
Michael Porter 
