Archive for April 22nd, 2021

Looking back over the past five decades, there’s been a fairly steady descent into our current climate crisis as ballooning populations and hungry economies have relied heavily on burning fossil fuels for power.

Thinking about climate change can be overwhelming. But for those of you who fear it’s too late to change the planet’s fortunes, take heart. Because some experts think humanity can still turn things around for Mother Earth.

Some find cause for optimism in expanding energy efficiency, electrification or geoengineering. ...

DODOMA, TANZANIA — Tanzania’s wheat production is expected to decrease 22% in the 2021-22 marketing year due to high post-harvest loss, below-average rainfall and a desert locust invasion, according to a report from the Foreign Agricultural Service of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Production is estimated at 70,000 tonnes and the harvested area is expected to drop 22%.

The government is trying to increase domestic wheat production with market mechanisms. Millers, traders and processors have been asked to source 60% of ...

WASHINGTON, DC, US — Scott Krakar, grain merchandiser, London Agricultural Commodities, London, Ontario, Canada, addressing the virtual Spring Conference of the North American Millers’ Association on April 20, forecast winter wheat production in Ontario in 2021 at 85.7 million bushels, down slightly from the 2020 outturn of 85.9 million bushels.

Ontario is the origin of most of the soft red winter wheat and soft white winter wheat imported each year by US millers. The US Department of Agriculture in its April ...