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The Bulletin: November 7-13, 2024
The Bulletin: November 7-13, 2024 Thousands Of Californians Lose Power After PG&E Protects Grid As Wildfire Risks Soar | ZeroHedge The Possible Relevance of Joseph Tainter – by Brink Lindsey The Recession of 2025 Will Be Backdated | The Epoch Times ‘Ecosystems are collapsing’: one of Australia’s longest rivers has lost more than half its […]
The Bulletin: August 23-29, 2024
The Bulletin: August 23-29, 2024 Global Food Production Is Being Limited by a Lack of Pollinators | Technology Networks There’s No Good News In The Unfolding Of Armageddon You Don’t Get To Vote On Any Of Your Government’s Most Consequential Actions Russia warns the United States of the risks of World War Three | Reuters […]
July 11, Readings
July 11, Readings How El Niño And La Niña Are Affecting Weather Patterns | ZeroHedge The Nationwide 500,000 EV Charger Charade › American Greatness’ Will the BRICS Currency Use a Gold Standard? – MishTalk Doug Casey on Preparing for Coming Shortages – International Man House Report Reveals GARM’s Role in Stifling Online Discourse–Reclaim the Net […]
July 9, 2024 Readings
July 9, 2024 Readings The meme that is destroying Western civilisation Part V–Steve Keen Food Ecomodernism And The Emptying Of Politics, Part 1–Chris Smaje Global News Round-up: Let them Eat Bugs–Robert Malone After Leftist Lobbying, German Bank Kills AfD Donation Account–Armageddon Prose Weak Data Says a Recession Has Already Started, Let’s Now Discuss When – […]
July 7, 2024 Readings
July 7, 2024 Readings War is Peace: Andrew Carnegie’s “Temple of Peace” in the Hague–Dr. Jacob Nordangard GOP Senate Farm Bill Framework, Similar to House Bill, Elevates Threat to Health, Biodiversity, and Climate – Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog Crash Or Bear Market, Either Way Stocks Going “Down, A Lot”: Mark Spiegel–Quoth the Raven 150 […]
July 2, 2024 Readings
Groundwater Depletion Maps Reveal Depths of “Extreme” and “Exceptional” Mexican Drought Saudi Arabia Breaks US Global Power? Very Hard Times are Coming – Charles Nenner | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog “The Train Has Left the Station and No One Can Stop It”. Europe Will be at War with Russia. Serbia’s President A. Vucic – Global Research […]
War On Nation’s Food Supply?: Idaho Restricts Water To 500,000 Acres Of Farmland
War On Nation’s Food Supply?: Idaho Restricts Water To 500,000 Acres Of Farmland In late May, Idaho Department of Water Resources Director Mathew Weaver issued a curtailment order requiring 6,400 junior groundwater rights holders who pump off the Eastern Snake Plain Aquifer to shut off their spigots. Idaho Gov. Brad Little issued a statement following the […]
Foreign Pollen Follies
Foreign Pollen Follies Autumn crop breeding update Originally, I planned to complete preliminary work on a bunch of different new crops that I began breeding seriously this year so I could write up one big article on each species, but I think progressive updates on all of them is a more useful way to show […]
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming
Menace on the Menu: The Financialisation of Farmland and the War on Food and Farming Between 2008 and 2022, land prices nearly doubled throughout the world and tripled in Central-Eastern Europe. In the UK, an influx of investment from pension funds and private wealth contributed to a doubling of farmland prices from 2010-2015. Land prices in the US agricultural […]
Small-scale farmers in Ethiopia: First came conflict, then devastating drought
Small-scale farmers in Ethiopia: First came conflict, then devastating drought Kalayu and other farmers can now harvest up to four times a year, instead of relying only on rain and harvesting only once a year. All photos: Sarah Easter/CARE Kalayu, 70, was once a self-sufficient farmer, but “last season,” he says, “there was no harvest […]
Wet Winter Veggie Sowing
Wet Winter Veggie Sowing In the early days on the farm, I adopted a calendar based sowing schedule based on the idea that cool season crops should be sowed in March and warm season ones in September. The passing years have demonstrated that approach is overly mechanical given the variability of seasons from year to […]
UK farmers consider quitting after extreme wet weather and low profits
UK farmers consider quitting after extreme wet weather and low profits Farmers ‘on the brink’ after record rains, phasing out of EU subsidies and price volatility British farmers are considering walking away from their farms as the recent record run of wet weather has left the sector “on the brink”, rural bodies have warned. The Agriculture and […]
Three Russian grain regions declare emergency over cold weather, frost damage
Three Russian grain regions declare emergency over cold weather, frost damage MOSCOW, May 8 (Reuters) – Three of Russia’s key grain-growing areas declared a state of emergency on Wednesday, citing May frosts that have caused severe damage to crops and will reduce this year’s harvest. The central regions of Lipetsk, Voronezh and Tambov all imposed […]
I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops
I’m a British farmer. Here’s the scary truth about what’s happening to our crops The climate crisis is making the farming business unsustainable – and without support for us, food security will suffer too Farming has always been a risky business. To the chaos of Brexit and the relentless squeezing of the supermarkets, we can […]
