After global catastrophe, urban and near-urban farming could be sufficient to sustain mid-size cities
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A new pilot study from the University of California, Davis published in the Journal of Dairy Science, demonstrates that simple acidification treatment with citric acid offers an effective, accessible, and easy-to-use alternative to pasteurization to ensure the safety of raw waste milk on farms for both the staff disposing of it and calves consuming it.
New research has shown how small, inexpensive drones combined with free, open source software can be used by community forest organisations to calculate and monitor the amount of carbon stored in their forests.
Stanford study reveals how climate change has altered growing conditions for the world’s five major crops over the past half century and is reshaping agriculture. The impacts corroborate climate models used to predict impacts, with a couple of important exceptions according to the researchers.