Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. Keep up with the latest news on our Climate and Environment page. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox every Thursday. This week: Climate change is forcing chimps to confront their fears An award-winning photo captures a devastating fire season New Brunswick moves to pay farmers for conservation … Read more
British Columbia grain farmer Malcolm Odermatt says all he can do is pray for rain this spring after repeated droughts sabotaged his harvest last year. Odermatt, who is also the president of the B.C. Grain Growers Association, has been working with his father since 2012 to farm about 2,000 acres of land in the Peace … Read more
Agricultural advisers have been sent out across China to help farmers minimise damage from freezing weather to their spring vegetable crops. The Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences said on Friday that 40 teams of experts had fanned out across the country to assess damage and offer technical advice. “The country has continued to experience extreme … Read more
The Current24:29Will lab-grown meat ever reach our plates? What’s cultivated, meat-like, and could help lower greenhouse gas emissions? Lab-grown meat â and it could be the future of protein. Sometimes known as cultured meat, lab-grown meat is unlike plant-based alternatives from companies such as Beyond Meat or Impossible Foods. Instead, it’s made by taking a few stem … Read more
Farmers across the European Union (EU) have taken to the streets, raising their voices in protest against various challenges that threaten their livelihoods. Brussels city centre witnessed a congestion of hundreds of tractors on Thursday, accompanied by agitated farmers pelting the European Parliament with eggs. Despite agriculture not being a scheduled topic for the EU … Read more
Female farmers remain largely unrecognised as leading women in the agriculture sector, predominantly in countries where they make up the bulk of the workforce. With the current rate of global warming, which measured at 1.18 degrees Celsius over the average temperature predicted for the 20th century, the farming industry has been pushed to new limits. … Read more
On a warm, blustery December afternoon outside the De Laurentis olive oil-producing co-op in the white hilltop town of Ostuni, Puglia, Luigi D’Amico holds out his palm, revealing an olive picked earlier in the day. Instead of resembling the plump, gleaming green and black fruit overflowing in bins around him, this one is half-consumed, dry … Read more
Two dozen new Colorado laws — concerning issues including how tractors are repaired, how evictions are handled and how elections are run — go into effect on New Year’s Day, shortly before state legislators return to the Capitol and begin the lawmaking process all over again. The bills that are set to kick in next … Read more
Brad Clements, 82, has been growing Christmas trees near Milton, Ont., since the 1980s but is getting ready to pack it in. “We’re looking at closing it up in the next year or so, if not sooner,” said Clements, owner of Clembrook Christmas Farm. Clements and his wife aren’t passing the business on to a … Read more
TRIBUTES are pouring in for a “lovely” farmer and his wife after they died from gunshot wounds. Richard and Rachel Harrison, 59 and 54, were tragically found dead on Friday morning in Saddington, Leicestershire. 2 Richard Harrison, 59, was found dead alongside his wife on Friday 2 Police confirmed Richard and Rachel Harrison, 54, died of … Read more
