Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farming. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Experts surprised by theft of artificial insemination tanks containing a large quantity of cattle semen

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BBC : Semen from prize-winning animals can command a very high price. ... Semen storage is a specialised industry and as one farmer put it t...
Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Taiwan soccer stadium turned into a farm

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Found this hidden gem near Yuanshan station. A defunct stadium (中山足球場) turned into an urban farm. pic.twitter.com/jtzlshv3Ap — Daniel Yu-Kue...
Monday, November 21, 2022

Joining California, Oregon, and Alaska, Washington banned net-pen fish-farming; Biologists discover "zoop soup"

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Seattle Times : the 2017 Cooke Aquaculture net-pen collapse ... released some 260,000 nonnative Atlantic salmon into the sea ... “It’s about...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

John Deere tractor jailbroken, used to play Doom

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And yes, that is corn-themed Doom running on a John Deere touchscreen. @sickcodes really went all out for this. You can harvest corn to rai...
Saturday, January 8, 2022

"Maine’s Democratic governor has vetoed a bill that would have given farm workers in the state the right to unionize"

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AP : Gov. Janet Mills vetoed the proposal Friday with a message that said she could not “subject our farmers to a complicated new set of law...
Wednesday, January 5, 2022

John Deere's “fully autonomous tractor" requires a "a call center of third-party contractors"

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The Verge : Agricultural equipment maker John Deere has announced its latest piece of autonomous farming kit: a package of hardware and soft...
Saturday, July 3, 2021

A strip of farmland in the desert; Aurora vortex; Artists know what to steal

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Sunday, March 8, 2020

When your fat pony is overly dramatic

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Just met a very concerned walker who was convinced the #fatpony had died. I swear Candy does it deliberately to mess with passers-by. pic...
Wednesday, February 12, 2020

RuPaul discusses owning a large ranch in Wyoming

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Starts at 2:30 this is one of the most coherent explanations of the actual ranching business model that has ever been given https://t.co...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

Militarized names in this catalog for bull semen

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There is a bull semen company in my Montanan hometown and a few years ago I was added to their mailing list. Favorite 2020 bulls are as fo...
Monday, January 13, 2020

"Swarms of Teeny Robo-Tractors Will Outmaneuver Tesla’s Driverless Cars"

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OneZero : Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have dazzled stockholders and consumers with visions of fully autonomous vehicles that can wander o...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

"When [the new head of Sun-Maid] came west, though, he was taken aback by the level of animosity he encountered in the U.S. raisin industry"

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NYT : Three months into his tenure, which began on Halloween of 2017, Mr. Overly attended a meeting of some raisin industry players in the...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

"Costco’s 100 Million Chickens Will Change the Face of Nebraska"

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Civil Eats : In order to guarantee a steady supply and maintain the price, Costco fixed its eye on Nebraska as the best place to start rai...