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Concerns about a loss of farmland to increasing urban sprawl are nothing new to American farmers and rural stakeholders. Those worries now have hard numbers to back them up with research from the American Farmland Trust showing the U.S. has lost more than 11 million of acres of farmland to development in the last two …

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In total, for 2020, we’ll have 13 full Moons, including 2 two Supermoons, and a full Moon on Halloween, which is more uncommon than you may realize. The first full Moon of 2020 howled onto the scene with January’s Wolf Moon on January 10th. And usually, we have one for each month, making the total …

A Rare Halloween Blue Moon! Read More »

One of the more promising ideas for removing carbon emissions from our air takes a cue from the Earth’s built-in air filters – trees. Arizona State University professor Klaus Lackner has created a “mechanical tree” that promises to be thousands of times more efficient than the leafy CO2 absorbers they mimic. ASU and Silicon Kingdom …

Just When You Thought You Had Seen it All… NEW Technology Brings Us Trees! Read More »

It’s hard to think of a time in the past few decades when the need to get away from it all felt more vital than ever for our own collective sanity. Americans are lucky in that we have some of the most amazing landscapes in the world just a car ride away. An even luckier …

Explore Ranches Opens the Gates to America’s Most Pristine Landscapes Read More »

Most people I speak with had no idea that someone could simply “lease” or rent a seat at the Chicago Board of Trade or New York Stock Exchange. You leased a seat, found an investor to stake a bit of money, and started trading on the floor. There was a little more to it than …

Did You Know You Could “Rent” Seats on the Stock Exchange? Read More »

A military conflict is brewing between China and Taiwan and it could ultimately embroil not just all of Asia but also the U.S. and other global powers. In fact, the Chinese recently released a propaganda video that depicted a mock military attack on a target resembling a U.S. Air Force base in Guam. See the …

Why Wall Street is Watching Taiwan… What You Need to Know Read More »

Autonomous Pivot is enabling growers to turn their center-pivot irrigation systems into an army of autonomous AI farming robots by utilizing proprietary sensing of oil & crop, deep learning, and AI for autonomous farming. AP’s goal to turn center-pivot irrigation systems into a robotics platform for autonomous irrigation, fertigation, and crop protection, will employ the …

WEBINAR… Irrigation Automation’s Next Step Read More »

Understand this is NOT a Climate Change debate! The big questions in climate change debates are how, why, and when? Are we looking at too short of a data set? Are we simply in some type of different rotational cycle that has caused the change? The list of questions associated with climate change debates can go …

What Warming Nighttime Temps Could Mean for Agriculture Read More »