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Clarkson's Farm fans hope for one big change to happen in season five
Gloucestershire Live
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June 15, 2025
Fans of the hit streaming show Clarkson's Farm are sharing their hopes for season five. The Jeremy Clarkson-fronted programme has delighted fans with its four seasons so far, and viewers are wanting even more from the familiar faces seen on the...
Wastewater discharge halts Mahurangi oyster harvesting
RNZ
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June 15, 2025
Oyster farmers depend on the Mahurangi Harbour water quality for their livelihood. Photo: Supplied / Auckland Council Oyster farmers north of Auckland are still not harvesting, due to pollution, after this week's rain caused another sewage...
Farmers start receiving tractors under wheat support programme
Business Recorder
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June 14, 2025
LAHORE: The Punjab government has started distributing green tractors among farmers under its wheat support programme to encourage wheat cultivation across the province. A total of 1,000 tractors are being handed over through a transparent...
Southern Thailand Begins Durian Harvest With Expected 14.5% Production Increase
Produce Report
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According to Thai media reports, the large-scale clearing of coffee, rubber, mangosteen, rambutan and longan plantings for durian cultivation in 2019 is expected to result in a 14.5% increase in durian production in southern Thailand this year,...
It's a gourd life: Tamsui farmer reclaims 'heaviest pumpkin' title
Focus Taiwan
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June 15, 2025
New Taipei, June 15 (CNA) A gourd farmer from New Taipei's Tamsui District on Saturday took back his title as the grower of the heaviest pumpkin at Taiwan's 2025 National Giant Pumpkins Championships. Lin Chien-hsun (林建訓) won the "weight" category...
Rice prices Japan’s issue, on and off the farm
Gulf Today
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June 15, 2025
All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki’s rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost of the staple in Japan is threatening to deal the government a blow at the ballot box. Shortages of the grain caused by a...
£13.6m fund to turn surplus farm food into meals for struggling families
The Scottish Farmer
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Twelve food redistribution charities have received grants to deliver an estimated 19,000 tonnes of surplus food, much of it straight from farms, to food banks, community kitchens and similar organisations. The funding will help expand operations,...
Govt to release Rs 168 cr subsidy for mango farmers
The Hans India
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June 15, 2025
Tirupati / Chittoor: In a major move to support mango farmers in the State, Agriculture and Allied Sectors Minister K Atchannaidu announced that the government will release Rs 168 crore as subsidy. He emphasised the State’s commitment to...
Ancient India’s agricultural calendar as a model for regenerative farming
The Hindu Business Line
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June 15, 2025
Before carbon credits and climate conferences, there was the soil. And even before the soil, there existed the sky. Ancient India had read the Earth and stars together, as a single text. It wrote its agricultural calendar in seasons,...
AGROECOLOGY COORDINATOR OUTRAGED BY GOVERNMENT’s INABILITY TO PURCHASE MAIZE FROM PEASANT FARMERS
Zambian Observer
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June 15, 2025
AGROECOLOGY COORDINATOR OUTRAGED BY GOVERNMENT’s INABILITY TO PURCHASE MAIZE FROM PEASANT FARMERS Lusaka… Saturday June 14, 2025 – The Socialist Party (SP) has criticised the Zambian government’s recent announcement regarding its inability to...
Farm raising fish raises questions about water use
Gulf Today
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June 14, 2025
Storks scatter, white against blue water, as Dan Mohring’s pickup truck rumbles down the dirt road. He’s towing a trailer full of ground-up beef, chicken, fish and nutrient bits behind him, ready to be shot out of a cannon into the ponds below....
Harvest Abundance in Minnesota: Gardening, the Advanced Class
KAXE/KBXE - Minnesota
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When the garden or farmers market gives you everything at once, the best way to handle it is to return to the fundamentals: roast, grill, bake, pickle, can, dry, freeze and sauté. These aren’t just methods, they’re survival tools during harvest...
Farmers are praying for rain to ease impact of droughts
Hampshire Chronicle
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For many arable farmers in this part of the world the next few weeks weather will determine whether 2024/2025 will be remembered as a profitable year or one to forget as another loss producing and disappointing harvest. Many crops are struggling...
CHamorus were skilled farmers
The Pacific Island Times
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June 14, 2025
J.A. Pellion's 1824 illustration of CHamoru farmers for Freycinet's collections. Photo courtesy of Guampedia Our Islands, Our People By Raquel Bagnol When Ferdinand Magellan and his crew landed on Guam in March 1521, they immediately recognized...
LG reiterates administration’s commitment to build stronger farm economy
Daily Excelsior
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June 15, 2025
Addresses closing ceremony of Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan Excelsior Correspondent SRINAGAR, June 14: Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha today addressed the closing Ceremony of Viksit Krishi Sankalp Abhiyan at SKUAST Kashmir’s Mountain Research...
California Farm Bureau says ICE raids ‘disruptive’ to agricultural economy
Times of San Diego
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June 14, 2025
Farmworkers harvest vegetables near Salinas in 2020. (File photo by Chris Stone/Times of San Diego) The California Farm Bureau said immigration raids are having a “disruptive effect” on the state’s agricultural economy, but expressed hope after...
Farmers lead Nakuru's growing food safety revolution
The Standard
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An officer from CropNut takes samples of vegetables as suppliers ( in red) assists in harvesting Kales at Joseph Mwangi's Kale farm in Bahati Nakuru county on June 4,2025. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] A gentle breeze rustles through rows of vibrant...
RSS’s farmers body criticises NITI Aayog for its suggestion of lowering tariffs on agriculture imports
The Hindu
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June 14, 2025
New Delhi The Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), an affiliate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), on Saturday (June 14, 2025)condemned the NITI Aayog’s recommendation under the proposed Indo-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in which the think tank...
About Mushroom Farming…
Zim Eye
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June 14, 2025
About Mushroom Farming… By Dr Trywell Muzerengi Oyster mushroom farming is fast emerging as one of the most accessible and profitable agribusiness opportunities in Zimbabwe, offering a low-cost, high-value avenue for income generation, food...
Experts visit millet farm
The Arunachal Times
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June 14, 2025
NOKSA, 14 Jun: An expert team visited the millet field of progressive farmer Wangea Wangsa in Noksa village in Longding district on Friday to promote millet production and disease management. The expert team, comprising Longding KVK plant...