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Brazil develops tropical wheat and predicts self-sufficiency in 5 years
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The fertilizer shortage will persist in 2023
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Show HN: Terra Firma, a playable erosion simulation
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Soil in Midwestern US is eroding 10 to 1k times faster than it forms
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Netherlands is the second-largest exporter of agricultural products
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The World Has Passed ‘Peak Agricultural Land’
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Aug 5 – 100000 robotic lawn mowers can sing Happy Birthday to Curiosity
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Satellites give clues about the coming global harvest
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Most of the world’s grain is not eaten by humans
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Reduced air pollution leads to higher crop yields
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After millennia of expansion, the world has passed ‘peak agricultural land’
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The Coming Food Catastrophe
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Historic fertilizer crunch threatens food security
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The Price of Wheat
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Healthy soil is key to feeding the world
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Conservation should be allowed to pay its own way on public lands
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Building on soil in Big Sandy: Regenerative organic farming in rural Montana
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Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
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Peru is reviving a pre-Incan technology for water
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‘Ten years ago this was science fiction’: the rise of weedkilling robots
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Mexico is phasing out imports of glyphosate and GMO corn
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Colombia boosts budding cannabis industry by removing ban on dry flower exports
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A soil-science revolution upends plans to fight climate change
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Organic and regenerative agriculture are revitalizing rural Montana economies
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Oregon has legalized human composting
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Desertification in Romania (2020)
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Farming robot kills 100k weeds per hour with lasers
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The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil
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Rapid global heating is hurting farm productivity, study finds
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Is soy a key driver of deforestation?
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1% of farms operate 70% of world's farmland
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We have no idea what happens next
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The Case Against More Ethanol (2016)
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No-till no-herbicide farming system in trial since 1981
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Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances
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We should discuss soil as much as coal (2019)
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Wheat yield potential in controlled-environment vertical farms
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To Save the Climate, Look to the Oceans
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Global groundwater extraction a “ticking time bomb”
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Why industry is going green on the quiet
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Nutrient deficiencies in rice grown under higher carbon dioxide
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Deeper well drilling an unsustainable stopgap to groundwater depletion
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The Farm Automation Breakthrough
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Soil Erosion: Why soil is disappearing from farms
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Time is running out for sand
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Perennial Crops
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The Age of Robot Farmers
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How the Netherlands Feeds the World (2017)
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Small robots may kill the tractor and make farming efficient
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Dry, the beloved country
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How the growth of cities changes farming
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Turning Soybeans into Diesel Fuel Is Costing Billions
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Only 60 Years of Farming Left If Soil Degradation Continues
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The World Is Running Out of Sand
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Drowning in grain: historically high supplies and low prices
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Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley
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U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save Soil, But It's Blowing Away
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Sand and gravel mining “greatly exceeds natural renewal rates”
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How Canada Became a Greenhouse Superpower
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The future of agriculture
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How an Army of Ocean Farmers Are Starting an Economic Revolution
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Syrian war spurs first withdrawal from 'doomsday' Arctic seed vault
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Turning Ethiopia's desert green
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Destroy the soil and we all starve
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Built on Sand: Singapore and the New State of Risk
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Nobel Prize winning biochemist says all biofuels are nonsense
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'Green roads' are plowing ahead, buffering drought and floods
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U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds
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An AI robot is spotting sick tulips to slow disease through Dutch bulb fields
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The regenerative urban garden I: No-till gardening
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