Browsing: Agriculture

Taxpayer money currently aids the agriculture industry and some people believe the cost will increase due to natural disasters driven by climate change, which make it more difficult for farmers to make a living.

Depth of Field: Films about Farming is being shown all over the country to raise awareness about the challenges of Canadian agriculture.

This year is expected to be dry with irrigation boards anticipating limited water allocation, which could greatly affect producers.

Unprecedented drought in British Columbia last year prompted the provincial government to invest $80 million to help manage, collect and store water for crops and livestock.

The staple fish is having an identity crisis.

scion via Shutterstock Just south of the equator, thirty miles off the coast of Tanzania, sits a small island called Pemba. The small patch of dry land jutting out from the Indian Ocean is just 30 miles long and 10 miles wide. The quarter million or so people who inhabit Pemba live more or less […]

Before noon in the Soconusco region of southern Chiapas, down by the border where Mexico meets Guatemala, the lush, green terrain is rife with bodies in motion. It is an area abutting the Pacific, a vast collection of plantations, most of them growing coffee. Hsun-Yi Hsieh, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, has […]

We’re used to the idea that some among us are colorblind, perceiving the world differently because of a quirk in their genetics. And it’s well-known that teenagers and young adults can hear high-pitched sounds that their elders cannot, an ability that’s been exploited by manufacturers of The Mosquito, an anti-loitering device that annoys youth into leaving. […]