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#agribusiness — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #agribusiness, aggregated by home.social.

  1. #Brazil: "An investigation by SUMAÚMA found 75 candidates, including allies of Flávio Bolsonaro, have been charged with violating environmental laws in the Amazon

    In recent months, Daniel Santos, who is running for office as Dr. Daniel, has been crisscrossing the interior of Pará to introduce himself as the agribusiness and mining candidate for governor of the state. His goal, he says, “is to free the productive sector.” On this journey, he has built ties to Bolsonarism and promised to grow agricultural output and work against demarcation of Indigenous Territories. And he has one more promise: to cancel environmental fines."

    sumauma.com/en/candidatos-soma
    #indigenous #environment #Amazon #elections #agribusiness #mining #FlavioBolsonaro

  2. Top End's first potato crop in decades almost ready for harvest
    By Sam Parry

    A South Australian potato company is preparing to harvest the Northern Territory's first crop of commercially grown potatoes in decades.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/nt-

    #CropHarvesting #VegetableGrowing #Agribusiness #AgriculturalCrops #Pests #SamParry

  3. Top End's first potato crop in decades almost ready for harvest
    By Sam Parry

    A South Australian potato company is preparing to harvest the Northern Territory's first crop of commercially grown potatoes in decades.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/nt-

    #CropHarvesting #VegetableGrowing #Agribusiness #AgriculturalCrops #Pests #SamParry

  4. Top End's first potato crop in decades almost ready for harvest
    By Sam Parry

    A South Australian potato company is preparing to harvest the Northern Territory's first crop of commercially grown potatoes in decades.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/nt-

    #CropHarvesting #VegetableGrowing #Agribusiness #AgriculturalCrops #Pests #SamParry

  5. Top End's first potato crop in decades almost ready for harvest
    By Sam Parry

    A South Australian potato company is preparing to harvest the Northern Territory's first crop of commercially grown potatoes in decades.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/nt-

    #CropHarvesting #VegetableGrowing #Agribusiness #AgriculturalCrops #Pests #SamParry

  6. Top End's first potato crop in decades almost ready for harvest
    By Sam Parry

    A South Australian potato company is preparing to harvest the Northern Territory's first crop of commercially grown potatoes in decades.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/nt-

    #CropHarvesting #VegetableGrowing #Agribusiness #AgriculturalCrops #Pests #SamParry

  7. '[C]ontrasting today’s deepening dependence and the loss of heirloom varieties against the region’s storied past, said to be the birthplace of #agriculture itself, feels like rubbing salt in the wound. “Lebanon’s millennia-old agricultural heritage—one of the oldest in the world—is under imminent threat,” Salloum told me.'

    Seeds of War

    thebaffler.com/latest/seeds-of
    #Lebanon #warOnLebanon #colonialViolence #neocolonialism #ecocide #biodiversity #environment #agribusiness #foodSecurity

  8. Farm profits to dive by 70 per cent as drought and costs bite
    By David Claughton, Michael Condon, and Mark Bennett

    The ABARES report for the June quarter predicts national crop production will fall by more than 20 per cent, with profits down 70 per cent for broadacre farms.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/cro

    #AgriculturalCrops #GrainGrowing #Trade #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness #WheatGrowing #AgriculturalPrices #DavidClaughton #MichaelCondon # #MarkBennett

  9. CW: Bad news: pesticides. But an very good approach to calculate ecological toxicity

    RE: eupolicy.social/@Akshay/116192

    "To determine global pesticide risk, the study researchers looked at data on pesticide use from 2013 to 2019 in 65 nations that collectively represent nearly 80% of global crop acreage. They then combined these statistics with data on the toxicity of 625 pesticides for eight different species groups, including aquatic invertebrates and plants, fish, pollinating insects, soil organisms, and terrestrial arthropods, plants and vertebrates."

    This TAT [total applied toxicity] is a very good approach to measure ecotoxicity. This is very important since the often used "tons of pesticides applied" is quite useless when we are talking about substances with highly varying toxicity. 👌

    Of many pesticides, we do not really know the toxicity, or there is a lack of scientific consensus because the agrochemical corporations play dirty and have an army of paid pseudo-scientists. Additionally, toxicological studies focus mainly on acute toxicity on humans and not on long-term adverse health effects or the effects of combinations of different pollutants. And the toxicity for ecosystem functions is seldom even considered.
    May this TAT help us to not underestimate toxicity so much.

    @mongabay 🌱
    @Akshay :ecoanarchism_heart:
    #Toxicology #Ecotoxicology #Microbiology #Agriculture #AgriBusiness #Bayer #Monsanto #Pioneer #Syngenta #Pesticides #SoilBiology #Glyphosate

  10. Let's cover the Mid North Coast of NSW in plastic..

    Image:
    "Surrounding the town of El Ejido, Almeria Province, southern Spain is a sea of greenhouses, stretching for tens of kilometers. Millions of tons of vegetables are exported to other European countries and other parts of the world. The image covers an area of 19 x 30.5 km, was acquired July 20, 2008, and is located at 36.75 degrees north latitude, 2.75 degrees west longitude."
    science.nasa.gov/photojournal/

    NSW - Traumatic landscapes of plastic, pollution and exploitation
    mastodon.au/@Bellingen/1159916
    #NSW #industrialisation #SeaOfPlastic #plastic #MidNorthCoast #blueberries #agribusiness #plantations #externalities #EcologicalViolence

  11. Can you smell that? It's durian season. And it's going off in Perth A fruit salesman from WA received a record 800 kilograms of NT durian and wondered 'is this going to sell?' It took just three days. abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-11- #FoodandBeverage #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness #Fruits

  12. Can you smell that? It's durian season. And it's going off in Perth A fruit salesman from WA received a record 800 kilograms of NT durian and wondered 'is this going to sell?' It took just three days. abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-11- #FoodandBeverage #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness #Fruits

  13. Weather insurance spikes with La Niña and long-awaited winter harvest Weather insurers have seen a spike in interest since La Niña was declared active by BOM, with grain growers looking to protect their best winter harvest in years. abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10- #AgriculturalInsurance #AgriculturalPrices #AgriculturalCrops #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness #Insurance #Rainfall #Weather #Drought #Wheat

  14. Weather insurance spikes with La Niña and long-awaited winter harvest Weather insurers have seen a spike in interest since La Niña was declared active by BOM, with grain growers looking to protect their best winter harvest in years. abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10- #AgriculturalInsurance #AgriculturalPrices #AgriculturalCrops #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness #Insurance #Rainfall #Weather #Drought #Wheat

  15. Farmers accuse Government of driving dodgy labour by not supporting illegal worker amnesty Farmers are angered as the Government rules out an illegal worker amnesty that would allow undocumented workers to come forward without fear of being deported. abc.net.au/news/2020-10-20/gov #GovernmentandPolitics #AgriculturalPolicy #FederalGovernment #CropHarvesting #Horticulture #Agribusiness #FarmLabour #Workplace

  16. Farmers accuse Government of driving dodgy labour by not supporting illegal worker amnesty Farmers are angered as the Government rules out an illegal worker amnesty that would allow undocumented workers to come forward without fear of being deported. abc.net.au/news/2020-10-20/gov #GovernmentandPolitics #AgriculturalPolicy #FederalGovernment #CropHarvesting #Horticulture #Agribusiness #FarmLabour #Workplace

  17. 'Waiting for a crop for too long': Excitement brews as growers begin harvest There's a glow atop the paddocks in northern New South Wales, a sight locals and farmers haven't seen since 2016. It's header drivers working into the night to get the most important crop in years off as quickly as possible. abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10- #AgriculturalMachinery #AgriculturalCrops #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness

  18. 'Waiting for a crop for too long': Excitement brews as growers begin harvest There's a glow atop the paddocks in northern New South Wales, a sight locals and farmers haven't seen since 2016. It's header drivers working into the night to get the most important crop in years off as quickly as possible. abc.net.au/news/rural/2020-10- #AgriculturalMachinery #AgriculturalCrops #CropHarvesting #Agribusiness

  19. COVID-19 restaurant restrictions force microgreens farm to cut most of their staff A farm growing microgreens for garnishing meals at high-end restaurants has been forced to let go of most of their staff, due to coronavirus restrictions. abc.net.au/news/2020-05-17/mic #ScienceandTechnology #AgriculturalCrops #CulinaryHerbs #Horticulture #EdiblePlants #Agribusiness #COVID-19 #Rural #Herbs

  20. Coronavirus panic buying takes root at nurseries selling food to grow at home First it was the panic buying of toilet rolls, then staples like rice, pasta and meat — now it's spread to the nursery industry as demand for edible plants and seeds heats up due to coronavirus. abc.net.au/news/2020-03-24/cor #DiseasesandDisorders #VegetableGardens #DiseaseControl #CulinaryHerbs #HumanInterest #Agribusiness #EdiblePlants