Over at the Climate Brink I take a deep dive into climate and wildfires in Canada, and why complaints about Canadian forest management largely miss the mark as conditions rapidly have become more favorable for megafires: www.theclimatebrink....

Global Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions continue to grow, across all GHGs (CO2, CH4, N2O, F-gas). The only glimmer of light is that CO2 emissions from LUC have declined in the last decade, though with a lot of annual variability. essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...

The problem with GMOs is not that there are too many, but that there are too few. Over 40 years after the first genetically modified plant, its nearly impossible to find any GMO fruits or vegetables. Federal regulations are a big reason why, I explain in @houstonchronicle.com buff.ly/YO3LhET

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Read Hannah’s article on why increasing agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa is one of today’s most important challenges: ourworldindata.org/africa-yield...

Increasing agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the most important problems this century

Agricultural productivity across Sub-Saharan Africa needs to improve to reduce hunger, poverty, and the destruction of biodiversity.

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Just read the underlying study. It 1) does not say “modern agriculture is collapsing,” 2) acknowledges need for 35-56% more food by 2050 without further land clearance, 3) says labor needs in traditional systems are 10x higher, 4) says crop yields in highly agrobiodiverse systems are 20-40% lower.

Larry Neufeld@larryneufeldsk.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Modern agriculture is collapsing under climate change. Indigenous farming has answers www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/01/n...

Pop ecology gives us appealing slogans—“nature knows best,” “the balance of nature”—but fails to reflect reality and so misleads agriculture. Here's what the ecology of reality actually tells us. My latest... csanr.wsu.edu/pop-ecology/

How Pop Ecology Misleads Agriculture

Romanticized “pop ecology” oversimplifies nature and leads to costly mistakes in real-world crop management.

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A big desert lily flowering in a wash. Borrego Badlands (2-6-26). Photo: Sicco Rood

For those considering purchase of a "biological" for soil P liberation, this overview is an essential read, "Phosphate-solubilising microorganisms for improved crop productivity: a critical assessment" nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... h/t @soilmicrocanada.bsky.social

Phosphate‐solubilising microorganisms for improved crop productivity: a critical assessment

Phosphate-solubilising microorganisms (PSM) are often reported to have positive effects on crop productivity through enhanced phosphorus (P) nutrition. Our aim was to evaluate the validity of this co...

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The 'GMO Industry' Just Wants To Sell Pesticides? Anti-Biotech Activists Wrong Again www.acsh.org/news/2022/07...

The 'GMO Industry' Just Wants To Sell Pesticides? Anti-Biotech Activists Wrong Again

Do biotech companies lie about the pesticide-saving benefits of genetically engineered crops? The activist group GM Watch says yes. Do they have a convincing case? Nope.

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Officially, the EU’s Mercosur trade deal, approved by the majority of the bloc's members last week, is a defeat for Europe’s farmers. In reality, farm lobbies just can’t stop winning.

Europe’s farmers lost the Mercosur battle. They’re still ahead.

Europe’s farmers are a minority. You wouldn’t know it from the political power they wield.

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The long march to autonomy vist.ly/4jbww #cdnag #westcdnag #Agritechnica #Agritechnica2025

The long march to autonomy | The Western Producer

The big players in the machinery market keep adding pieces towards autonomous vehicles for farming, but how far away is a final product?

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Aujourd'hui c'est le solstice d'hiver dans l'hémisphère Nord. Les journées vont commencer à rallonger! Le soleil ne se lève à l'Est (centre de l'image avec Nord à gauche, Sud a droite) que lors des équinoxes. La position du lever change un peu tous les jours! (©Z. Al-Abbadi)

For those who follow @agronomistag.bsky.social and those who want to learn from him, join us on Mar. 10/26 from 6-7 pm for an interesting talk with Q&A after.

Quand des politiques disent "la France c'est que 1% des émissions de CO2, c'est aux autres pays d'agir", il faut systématiquement rappeler que le pays est le 8e plus grand émetteur historique et a donc une responsabilité très importante du réchauffement climatique actuel.

Are the bears finally losing their market grip? vist.ly/4ehjc #cdnag #westcdnag

Are the bears finally losing their market grip? | The Western Producer

Keeping tabs on market trends is important, but accurately gauging when trends begin to turn is a bankable skill.

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ÉTAT DES CULTURES 🌽Avec près de la moitié des superficies de maïs-grain récoltées, les rendements s’avèrent finalement meilleurs qu’attendus pour la majorité des répondants. vist.ly/4cg6c 🙏 Merci à G3, Les Moulins de Soulanges et Pioneer

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change. The IUCN is voting on whether those species should be allowed in nature. n.pr/4hhtAxo

Scientists are modifying wildlife DNA. Should these species be released into nature?

Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change. The IUCN is voting on whether those species should be allowed in nature.

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"The author and activist behind the term ‘#enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it" I thought it would be harder to dump #Amazon. It wasn't. I haven't missed it. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?

Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

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ÉTAT DES CULTURES 🌡️ Pas de gel mortel cette fois-ci, mais des effets visibles sur le feuillage et les plants. Le soya progresse rapidement vers la récolte, alors que le maïs reste très variable. vist.ly/48b2j 🙏 Merci G3, Les Moulins de Soulanges et Pioneer.

So awesome: Greenlight Biosciences, the startup featured in my book for its RNA biopesticide that constipates potato beetles to death, gets approval for a new one that stops bee-killing “destructor mites” from reproducing. Science! finance.yahoo.com/news/greenli...

This is of interest, not so much for what Ms. Gilllam says (note the misleading statement about WHO, for example), but for the groups referenced.

Raj Patel@rajpatel.org · 11mo ago

Tucked into the Appropriations Bill is a limit on the right to sue pesticide manufacturers for harm. As always, Carey Gillam has the details. www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/in-w...

But also this:

John Berry@aniccia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Our World in Data is lying in this thread when they claim to present "the latest reports" as they excluded the June 2025 report, which when included gives a rather different impression that undermines their growth narrative. Truth is Waymo's service is very fragile and shutdown for ~week in June.

Very interesting.

Our World in Data@ourworldindata.org · 11mo ago

Californians now travel millions of miles each month in driverless taxis

Tar spot detected in Quebec.

Le Bulletin des agriculteurs@lebulletinagr.bsky.social · 11mo ago

MAÏS ⚫ La tache goudronneuse de nouveau détectée au Québec La maladie a été détectée pour la première fois en 2024 au Québec et en 2020 en Ontario, où elle est maintenant considérée endémique. vist.ly/463zk 📬 Pour rester informé sur l’actualité agricole, abonnez-vous à l’infolettre

Very interesting read. Why Bluesky is 1/60th size of Twitter, and the gap is not diminishing. www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...

What is Blueskyism?

And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?

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How much value do you place on soil organic amendments? Nice article from the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping @niab-uk.bsky.social by our own Ian Shield, based on data from our newest long term experiment on re-gen farming... b8b40240-cedc-4431-94d2-4d0998744f4d.usrfiles.com/ugd/f049db_6...

Trump administration set to abolish emissions rule for engines vist.ly/44cr3 #cdnag #westcdnag

Trump administration set to abolish emissions rule for engines | The Western Producer

The U.S. EPA has announced it intends to remove all greenhouse gas emissions regulations on light, medium and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles.

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Europe’s resistance to the use of biotech in ag has long dictated what farmers in the Global South can grow, but now a slow but steady revolution is taking place as a number of African nations move to embrace gene-editing on their own terms www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/josephmaina2

JosephMaina | Africa's quiet biotech revolution

Africa's quiet biotech revolution

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In low-income countries, most people work in farming; in richer countries, they work in services

Study shows that root growth is important to helping plants procure water during droughts. Most farmers have sensed this is true for a few millennia.

The-14 Media@the-14.com · 12mo ago

Nature’s underground engineers: how plant roots could save harvests from drought #Soil #Drought #Plants #XRay #PlantRoots #SoilHealth #DroughtResilience #FoodSecurity #Agriculture #Farming #ClimateChange #SustainableFarming #SoilScience #RootEngineering the-14.com/natures-unde...