Regenerative Farming for Better Soil, Farms and a Climate Change Solution
Gabe Brown has super healthy soil on his farm and his farm is more productive.
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What if We Skip Wrecking the World Economy and Jump to Fixing the Atmosphere?
What if we could stop temperature rise and roll back world temperatures as needed? What if we could fix the atmosphere without wrecking the economy but just added a profitable business? Do we have to completely change energy, transportation and the economy BEFORE the effects of climate change are very large and clear? Do we …
The US Farm Bill Has Made Hemp Legal and It Has Many Uses
Hemp is different from marijuana. They are both cannabis but Hemp does not have psychoactive compounds. Hemp is a cannabis plant that has less than 0.3% of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). Hemp is used in textiles, plastics, livestock feed, and home cooking. Hemp is also a good source of omega-3 and omega-6, amino acids, and proteins. These …
Doomer Attenborough Hates People and Malthus Was Wrong by Over 300 Times
The Doomer David Attenborough hates humans and data. He desperately wants fewer humans and ignores data which shows how wrong his ideas are. This is a dangerous level of ignorance. This ignorance and constantly wrong belief has harmed millions of people and will harm millions more if is not 100% refuted. This is a simple …
We Know Enough to Be Really Dangerous With Gene Editing
Some gene edited animals have been unintentionally deformed. There are gene edited rabbits with enlarged tongues and pig’s with extra vertebrae. Rapid progress in gene editing is being made but there is still a lot to learn. We know enough now to be really dangerous. 20-30 yrs from now this will all be trivial and …
Electricity boosts crop yield by 30% while reducing pesticides and fertilizers
China uses electricity instead of chemical pesticides and fertilizers to boost the growth of vegetables and fruits. Electricity boosted vegetable output by 20 to 30 percent. Pesticide use has decreased 70 to 100 percent. And fertilizer consumption has dropped more than 20 percent. One hectare of electrified greenhouse requires about 15 kilowatt-hours of electricity per …
Long-term colonization of the solar system with 290,000 square feet per person
A 5 km settlement radius corresponds roughly to the sweet design spot where earthlike radiation shielding is produced for free by the required structural mass. The paper is by Pekka Janhunen. Overall, the settlement concept satisfies the following generic requirements for long-term large-scale settling of the solar system: 1. 1g artificial gravity, earthlike atmosphere, earthlike …
Australia and Water Innovation
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an independent Australian federal government agency responsible for scientific research. CSIRO works with leading organizations around the world. From its headquarters in Canberra, CSIRO maintains more than 50 sites across Australia and in France, Chile and the United States of America, employing about 5500 people. Research …
US and Mexico announce a new trade deal
The U.S. and Mexico struck a trade deal on Monday that paved the way to replace NAFTA, the current agreement between the two nations and Canada. Mexican officials promised the Latin American country would start buying as farm product as possible from the USA. Nextbigfuture notes that the USA was always the 800-pound gorilla in …
Water management is complex and dynamic and requires better understanding and measurement
Crop irrigation uses 70% of global fresh water extractions. Irrigated crops make up 40% of globally available food calories. Advanced technologies that could provide irrigation efficiency (IE) are funded and supported to improve the crop per drop. This provides private benefits to irrigators and is supposed to save water for reallocation of water for cities …
A fully annotated wheat genome good be used to massively boost wheat crop yields
Wheat is one of the major sources of food for much of the world. However, because bread wheat’s genome is a large hybrid mix of three separate subgenomes, it has been difficult to produce a high-quality reference sequence. Using recent advances in sequencing, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium presents an annotated reference genome with …