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Modern farming may be quietly reshaping your food's nutritional value

Crop breeding for higher yields may be unintentionally reducing the beneficial microorganisms that help plants absorb ...
Newsweek

Sheep to Be Genetically Engineered to Produce Less Methane

Farmers are looking to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions in a weird and wonderful way: using genetically engineered, low-methane sheep. A project named 'Breed for CH4nge' has been announced in the ...

Crops preferred to sheep in large parts of Australia's traditional mixed farming regions

Mixed farming, which involves growing crops and rearing livestock, used to be standard practice in Australia, but there are ...
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Sheep farming can fetch you riches if driven well

Retired Lt Coronel Cheptoo Kimosop with some of his sheep in his Lawan farm in Sabatia Baringo county, the former army officer has ventured into dairy farming among others [PHOTO:BONIFACE ...
The Conversation

‘Solar shepherds’ earn big by grazing sheep on solar farms — and they benefit everyone involved

Joshua M. Pearce has received funding for research from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Mitacs, the U.S. Department of Energy ...
JSTOR Daily

Beyond the flock. Sheep farming, wool sales and social differentiation in a sixteenth-century peasant society: the Campine in the Low Countries

In the existing literature late medieval sheep keeping has been perceived as a landlord and tenant-farmer strategy, aimed at international export markets. In this article we want to show that there ...