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News Articles: Agriculture

Every day, 19,000 workers ferry produce around the Central de Abastos on dollies and wheelbarrows.

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  • World

How Mexico City's biggest wholesale market is combating food waste

Since 2020, the 800-acre Central de Abastos market has reduced daily food waste by 24% and delivered almost 800 tons of unsold food to soup kitchens.

January 02, 2024
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  • James Fredrick
Palestinian farmers Naser El Khatib and Thaer El Taher stand on land filled with their olive trees at the edge of Beitunia, across from an area controlled by Israel in the occupied West Bank, on Dec. 2.

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  • World

In the West Bank, Palestinian olive farmers fear for the worst in this year's harvest

Usually at this time of year, Palestinian olive farmers in the West Bank are hard at work in their groves. But because of the war in Gaza, many have not been able to access their land.

December 23, 2023
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  • Eleanor Beardsley
A young bison calf with its herd at Bull Hollow, Okla., on Sept. 27, 2022. American bison, or buffalo, have bounced back from their near extinction due to commercial hunting in the 1800s. Many tribes are participating in their restoration.

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  • Health

With bison herds and ancestral seeds, Indigenous communities embrace food sovereignty

Native Americans are returning to raising buffalo and plants that tribes have grown for millennia. It's a way to reconnect with historic traditions, and to bring healthy eating to their communities.

December 09, 2023
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  • Jim Robbins
Larry Stephens

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  • Business

Oh, Christmas tree: As artificial trees rule the market, Georgia’s live-tree sellers persevere

In late fall each year for the past half-century, beneath 100-yard-long, metal-roofed sheds at the Macon State Farmers Market, a propped-up forest of fresh-cut Christmas trees has burgeoned and gradually, by mid-December, vanished before Greg Slaughter’s eyes.

December 08, 2023
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  • Joe Kovac
The 2023 Plant Hardiness Zone Map shows shifting zones in much of Georgia. Areas in orange and brown saw a warming of their average lowest winter temperature range, compared to 2012. White denotes no change.

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  • Environment

USDA hardiness map shows Georgia's coldest temperatures are warming

The new map is the first update since 2012.

December 04, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
Scores of homes near the core of the South Georgia city of Valdosta were damaged by large trees felled by hurricane Idalia. Grant Blankenship / GPB News

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  • News

Climate disasters are costing Georgia billions & threaten agriculture. What are solutions?

Georgia experienced 107 billion-dollar disasters between 1980-2022, the highest amount of any state in the Southeast, according to a prominent group of experts and scientists.

 

November 20, 2023
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  • Kala Hunter

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  • News

'Unusual' weather delays peanut harvest in Georgia

Georgia’s peanut harvest is later than usual. Farmers say it’s all due to the weather over the past several months

November 01, 2023
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  • Sarah Kallis
Farmer Neal Lee stands in a soybean field on his family farm in Dawson, where they also grow peanuts and cotton. White-tailed deer are more likely to eat row crops farther away from the road, where the plants are ankle height.

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  • Economy

Deer are eating through Georgia crops. For farmers, it’s the latest cost to worry about

Damage from white-tailed deer can cause millions of dollars worth of damage to the state’s most profitable crops.

 

November 01, 2023
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  • Sofi Gratas
Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper speaks at a Wednesday news conference in Atlanta, standing next to a portion of the second yellow-legged hornet nest and a map of sightings in Chatham County.

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  • Environment

Second yellow-legged hornet nest found near Savannah, after species ‘very likely’ entered via port

Eradication of the invasive species will take at least three years, officials said.

September 21, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
Farmer Wilbert van der Post is worried that the Dutch government's new nitrogen reduction rules will force him, a fourth-generation farmer, out of business. He plans to vote for the Farmer-Citizens Movement, known in the Netherlands by its acronym, BBB, on election day in November.

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  • Europe

In the Netherlands, a farmers party taps into widespread discontent with government

What began as a movement of farmers opposed to environmental rules is now one of the country's dominant political parties. The nation's agricultural exports are second only to the United States.

September 21, 2023
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  • Rob Schmitz
Typhoon Farma, which operates a hemp farm in Montrose, Colo., planted 70 acres of the cannabis plant this year.

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  • Business

Apple picking season? In Colorado, you can pick your own hemp

A farm in Montrose, Colo., is showing off its harvest, letting the public take home their own CBD plant. It's like picking your own Christmas tree, with therapeutic side effects.

September 15, 2023
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  • Emma Bowman
GPB News NPR

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  • Global Health

Small-scale farmers in Africa will be the beneficiaries of huge humanitarian prize

The nonprofit group One Acre Fund wants smallholder farms to grow more, earn more and feed more people. The organization just won a $2.5 million award from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation.

September 07, 2023
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  • Gabriel Spitzer
One of a number of signs voicing opposition to the rail spur project along Shoals Road in Hancock County.

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  • Economy

The land is your family wealth. A railroad wants a piece of it. What do you do?

The Smiths chose to return home to this land because of how his father used it as an engine for educating Mark and his siblings and launching them into the wider world.  

August 29, 2023
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  • Grant Blankenship
The Georgia Department of Agriculture shared images of a yellow-legged hornet nest that its scientists removed Wednesday from a tree on a Wilmington Island residential property located near the Savannah Bee Company's garden.

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  • Environment

Nation's first known yellow-legged hornet nest found, eradicated near Savannah

Officials remain on the lookout for more nests belonging to the invasive species, which preys on pollinators.

August 28, 2023
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  • Benjamin Payne
Paola Mendoza, the daughter of farmworkers, says her parents didn't want her to join them in the fields. She's now in college, studying to be a teacher.

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  • Business

As these farmworkers' children seek a different future, who will pick the crops?

U.S. farms have faced worker shortages for years. Now compounding the problem: The children of farmworkers are leaving the fields, forcing farm owners to look to other countries for labor.

July 28, 2023
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  • Andrea Hsu and
  • Ximena Bustillo
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