Reading Time: 2 minutes Glacier FarmMedia – Morning omelettes and holiday dinners have become more expensive. One likely cause is bird flu, outbreaks of which led to the deaths of millions of chickens and turkeys from infection or culling in 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and which still demands rigorous monitoring of wild populations. Now, reporting […] Read more
Testing wetlands for infectious bird flu – and finding it
Because concentration is too low in large water bodies, the usual methods of testing don’t work
Almost 20 per cent of grain in China lost or wasted from field to fork
Reading Time: < 1 minute A comprehensive new review of food waste in China has concluded that about 19 per cent of its grain is wasted, according to a report from the American Chemical Society. An estimated one-third to one-half of food produced worldwide is lost or wasted from farm to fork, but the problem is especially acute in China. […] Read more
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