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Empowering Youth for a Sustainable Future: The Role of Agri-Innovation, Technology and Partnerships
CNR Citi Newsroom
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August 25, 2025
The conversation on societal progress misses an essential element when it overlooks the growing significance of young people as active drivers of change and transformation. Recognizing this, the UN General Assembly in 1965 began emphasizing the...
Farmers Insurance, Aflac Report Data Breaches to Regulators
Bank Information Security - New Jersey
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Data Breach Notification , Data Privacy , Data Security Farmers' Breach Affects 1.1 Million; Aflac Is Still Counting Victims Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) • August 25, 2025 Farmers Insurance and Aflac Inc. have each filed breach reports...
Oyo partners Chinese firm to boost agribusiness, strengthen economy
The Guardian (Nigeria)
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August 25, 2025
The Oyo State Government has announced a strategic partnership with COVEC, a subsidiary of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), aimed at accelerating agribusiness growth and strengthening the state’s economic base. The...
Farm Groups Back EPA Refinery Exemption Move but Urge Full Reallocation
Successful Farming
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On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued decisions involving 175 petitions for small refinery exemptions (SREs) from the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) for 2016–2024. EPA granted full exemptions to 63 petitions and partial...
Innovative three-tier packaging line for tomatoes
Fresh Plaza
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August 25, 2025
A solution by Top Control How can tomatoes be packaged efficiently, ergonomically, and with the least amount of space, while maintaining high productivity and minimizing waste? TopControl has developed a custom solution for a vegetable processing...
Draft MAHA Report Embraces Conservation Agriculture, Doesn’t Target Pesticides
No-Till Farmer - Wisconsin
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August 25, 2025
A draft of the Make America Healthy Again Commission’s final report circulating around Washington doesn’t appear to target pesticides, which would spell a potentially big win for production agriculture. But the "Making Children Healthy Again"...
Using precision technology to improve weed management
Brownfield Ag News
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August 25, 2025
News Using precision technology to improve weed management August 25, 2025 By Erin Anderson Filed Under: Crops, News The innovation project manager at Beck’s Hybrids says precision technology can help farmers improve weed management. Will...
Cereal Yields in Sub-Saharan Africa: Climate & Economy
Bioengineer.org
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August 25, 2025
Research from a recent publication sheds light on the complex interplay between sustainable political economy and climate change, particularly as it relates to cereal yields in Sub-Saharan Africa. As the global climate continues to change, the...
Nigeria, Brazil sign five MoUs to boost economic development
Peoples Gazette
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August 25, 2025
Nigeria and Brazil, on Monday, signed five strategic Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) in key sectors, aimed at accelerating Nigeria’s economic development. The signing took place in Brasília, witnessed by President Bola Tinubu and Brazilian...
Orsted falls to record low after order to halt US wind farm
Taipei Times
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August 25, 2025
Shares in Orsted A/S stock fell as much as 19 percent to a record low after US President Donald Trump’s administration blocked construction of an almost-finished offshore wind farm, throwing a wrench into a planned 60 billion kroner (US$9.4...
UT beef and forage systems and PLF Technologies in focus in September
Williamson Herald - Tennessee
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Learn More about farming for the future September 23 and 24 SPRING HILL, Tenn. – Beef cattle producers and those interested in the industry, as well as those interested in poultry production, are welcome to visit the University of Tennessee Middle...
India, Fiji to strengthen partnership in defence, health, trade, agri
The Hindu Business Line
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August 25, 2025
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Fiji Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka in New Delhi on Monday | Photo Credit: SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA India and Fiji will work towards strengthening mutual cooperation in the defence and security sector and build...
Sprouts Farmers Market Opens 29,105 SF Grocery Store in Richmond, Texas
REBusinessOnline
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August 25, 2025
50RICHMOND, TEXAS — Sprouts Farmers Market has opened a 29,105-square-foot grocery store in Richmond, a southwestern suburb of Houston. The Phoenix-based grocer joins LA Fitness, At Home and Academy Sports + Outdoors as the anchor tenants at...
IICA showcases major gains in agricultural resilience and rural development at Executive Committee meeting in Lima
Dominica News Online
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August 25, 2025
Dominica News Online - Monday, August 25th, 2025 at 10:06 AM The Director General of IICA, Manuel Otero (center), reported on of IICA’s work to increase agricultural productivity and resilience, in a formal meeting in which the Minister of...
First Human Case of Deadly Flesh-Eating Screwworm Detected in the United States: A Wake-Up Call for Public Health and Agriculture
Alexa.ng
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On Sunday, August 24, 2025, health authorities in the United States confirmed a chilling milestone: the first documented human case of New World screwworm, a rare and deadly flesh-eating parasite, in a patient who had recently returned from El...
Bushel awarded 2025 Farm Management Solution of the Year
AGDAILY - Michigan
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August 25, 2025
Bushel has been selected as “Farm Management Solution of the Year” in the 5th annual AgTech Breakthrough Awards program conducted by AgTech Breakthrough, a market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and...
Two Schuylkill farms join ranks of ‘forever farms’
Republican Herald - Pennsylvania
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August 25, 2025
With so much of the nation’s agricultural land being transformed into commercial and residential development, Pennsylvania has again invested in permanently preserving farmland, including two farms in Schuylkill County. Thirty-three farms in 16...
Japan's Yanmar, Terra Drone team up to launch farm drones in Indonesia
Nikkei Asia
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Technology Partnership aims to sell 120 drones this year in bid to promote smart farming The drones to be sold by Yanmar and Terra Drone will be able to spread pesticide and fertilizer. (Terra Drone) KOJI NOZAWA August 26, 2025 05:57 JST TOKYO --...
RFK Jr.'s MAHA Strategy Blasted by Farm Group That Endorsed Him
Newsweek
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August 25, 2025
A nonpartisan national farm organization claiming to be the only such group to have endorsed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has given a preliminary "Make America Healthy Again" draft a "D+" grade,...
Dr Jitendra Launches Rs 5 Cr Technology Incubator To Boost StartUps In J&K
Daily Excelsior
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August 25, 2025
AWANTIPORA, Aug 25 : Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology, Dr. Jitendra Singh, inaugurated the DST Inclusive Technology Business Incubator (i-TBI) and iFactory Lab today at the Islamic University of Science and...