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...France, Italy and Spain for inspiration and ingredients are now literally combing their backyards for the raw materials to create a cool new Nordic cuisine. Instead of the borrowed prestige of imported foie gras and truffles, the new taste of the North is foraged chickweed, Arctic brambles and livestock breeds that date back to the Vikings...
...feed goes to China, where 70% of the world's fish farming takes place; China now devotes nearly 1 million hectares (close to 4,000 sq. mi.) of land to shrimp farms. And about 45% of the global production of fishmeal and fish oil goes to the world's livestock industry, mostly pigs and poultry, up from 10% in 1988. If current trends continue, demand for fish oil will outstrip supply within a decade and the same could happen for fishmeal by 2050, says Stanford's Naylor. Already, the global supply of fishmeal has dropped from 7.7 million metric tons...
...report issued Monday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistical Service's Des Moines, Iowa, office said recent rains are actually helping corn and soybean crops. "Cooler temperatures associated with rains are helping livestock, though insects continue to be an issue," the report said matter-of-factly...
...table - and a bitter fruit it is. China's Consumer Price Index showed a 5.6% year-over-year increase in July, the sharpest rise in more than a decade. Food prices soared 15.4%, with meat and poultry alone rising 45% due to shortages caused by outbreaks of livestock disease as well as severe flooding in agricultural areas. But it's not just food prices that are taxing consumers. The costs of rents and mortgages were up 4.4%, making housing the second most inflationary category after food. That kind of blow to the breadbasket means people like Kong are "raising their...
When he finishes with the film’s promotion tour, Farmer John says that he plans to expand the breadth of the farm’s agricultural enterprises, including the addition of livestock and grain components that stress sustainability and biodiversity...