By Tyler Durden It’s no secret by now that the rise of automation and robots is projected to displace millions of jobs in the coming years. Many low-skilled jobs will be wiped out because of robots, sending technological unemployment, the loss of jobs caused by…
By Timothy A. Wise Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador quietly rocked the agribusiness world with his New Year’s Eve decree to phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate and the cultivation of genetically modified corn. His administration sent an even stronger aftershock two weeks…
By Michael Snyder The locusts are back, and they are hungry. Last year, an unprecedented plague of locusts devastated crops in eastern Africa, across the Middle East and throughout much of Asia. Many were hoping that it would just be a one year phenomenon, but…
By Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsTV Last week we ventured off to North Carolina. Our first stop was at our friends’ homestead, “Honey Tree Farm”! Casey and Tori Ostwinch are farming for a living. They grow micro-greens, vegetable and root produce, raise chickens and even have bees…
iowANFarmer In this video, I outline the fatal effects newly proposed tax plans could have on generational farming. I want to express that these policies have NOT been implemented yet, but have been proposed. Please share, and let your elected officials know you oppose the…
Christian Westbrook (Ice Age Farmer) and Curtis Stone (Urban Farmer) take a look at the future of agriculture and the challenges coming to the food supply in this wide-ranging two-hour discussion. FREE PDF: 10 Best Books To Survive Food Shortages & Famines Follow Christian: https://IceAgeFarmer.com…
Coffee rust is a parasitic fungus and a big problem for coffee growers around the world. A study in the birthplace of coffee—Ethiopia—shows that another fungus seems to have the capacity to suppress the rust outbreaks in this landscape. “Coffee leaf rust is a fungal…
By Jim Mundorf “The great searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.”— George Washington I don’t care who you voted for,…
By Ice Age Farmer The Biden admin’s executive actions in the last 48 hours are attacking farms and implementing the technocratic takeover of food, accelerating a global collapse in food production by paying farmers NOT to grow food, cutting their financial support, tasking Tom Vilsack’s…
By The Ice Age Farmer The UK’s DEFRA (Dept for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs) is gassing chickens of residents in “zones” near detected cases of bird flu. Some farms are stopping sales or closing, due to this authoritarian overreach in the name of “public…
By Joanna Miller On the surface, “homesteading” looks like frolicking outside in the dirt all day and then sitting down to a delicious scratch-cooked, home-raised meal in the evening. Sure, that is part of it. But, having a functional homestead involves a lot of different…
By Lucille Leclair Chen Yun’s pigs stopped eating, then developed a fever. Within a week, all 10,000 on his farm in Jiangxi, in southeast China, had died of African swine fever (ASF). In 2018-19 the virus affected every province and led to the slaughter of…
We are born into an environment full of small organisms called microbiota. Within the first minutes and hours of our lives, they start challenging but also educating our immune system. The largest immune organ is our gut, where maturation of the immune system and maturation…
By Chris Smaje The palm civet is a small omnivorous mammal of Indonesia and other parts of tropical Asia. Emerging from its forest home onto coffee plantations, it’s able to sense the finest coffee fruits of perfect ripeness. Eating them, it digests the pulp and…
By Anthony McLennan Farmers in some countries prefer ducks and geese over pesticides when it comes to controlling bugs, snails, and weeds in crop plantations. It proves to be an organic solution as the birds eat the pests and then release their own waste back…
A new study finds that glyphosate residue in manure fertilizer decrease the growth of strawberry and meadow fescue as well as runner production of strawberry. Earlier experiments with Japanese quails showed how glyphosate residue in poultry feed accumulated in quail manure. In these experiments, half…
Slower growing broiler chickens are healthier and have more fun than conventional breeds of birds, new evidence from an independent commercial scale farm trial has shown. The study carried out by researchers from FAI Farms, the University of Bristol and The Norwegian University of Life…
By Ice Age Farmer Germany institutes “Agriculture Ban” on all crops within 30km of first confirmed African Swine Fever (ASF), which will not only provide FOOD & SHELTER to the wild hogs spreading the virus, but deprive Germany of that food left in the ground….
By Ice Age Farmer Anthony Fauci has published a paper blaming farming and ranching for pandemics, jumping on the UN’s Biodiversity agenda, and setting the stage for new Senate Bill 4453, “Food Supply Protection Act of 2020,” which codifies the Rockefeller Foundation’s takeover of food….
By Lucyna Gozdzielewska, Glasgow Caledonian University and Lesley Price, Glasgow Caledonian University Rearing animals for food takes time and requires hard work to maintain their health and well-being. Just as in humans, farm animals sometimes get sick and require drugs to treat infections. But organisms…
