Fewer California farmworkers are migrants
As a young woman in the late 1980s, María Inés Catalán joined a gushing stream of laborers from Mexico chasing seasonal crops in California, following the footsteps of her mother …
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Swaraj Engines: Government focus on agriculture, rural income to sustain tractor demand: Swaraj Engines
The government’s focus on improving the state of agriculture in India and several initiatives taken by it to drive higher rural incomes are likely to support to sustain the tractor …
Mass cull ordered as bird flu found at second NSW farm
Avian influenza has been detected on a second poultry farm in the Hawkesbury district, northwest of Sydney. A positive result for the H7N8 strain at the second property was confirmed …
CDC has 1 million bird flu tests ready, but experts see repeat of COVID missteps
It’s been nearly three months since the U.S. government announced an outbreak of the bird flu virus on dairy farms. The World Health Organization considers the virus a public health …
Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wrong
In 1996 the United States hit peak potato. Americans were eating 64 pounds of the vegetables each year—more than at any point since modern records began in 1970. A record-breaking …
Bird flu alert issued as disease detected at NSW poultry farm
A new bird flu warning has been issued in NSW after avian influenza was detected on a commercial poultry farm in the Hawkesbury area on Wednesday. Victoria is already on …
California seeks more resilient water supply as foes battle
California is a semi-arid state in which the availability of water determines land use, and in turn shapes the economy. That, in a nutshell, explains why Californians have been jousting over water for the …
Silicon Valley billionaires’ utopia plan qualifies for November ballot
A controversial plan backed by Silicon Valley billionaires to build a utopian city from scratch in Solano County took a leap forward this week, with the proposal qualifying to go …
Bird flu tests are hard to get. So how will we know when to sound the pandemic alarm?
Stanford University infectious disease doctor Abraar Karan has seen a lot of patients with runny noses, fevers, and irritated eyes lately. Such symptoms could signal allergies, covid, or a cold. …
Death of Mexican man linked to bird flu strain that’s new in humans
By Riley Griffin and Jessica Nix | Bloomberg A man in Mexico died after contracting a strain of bird flu that hasn’t been confirmed in humans before, the World Health …