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Terry Daynard
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Ontario Grain Farmer; former Exec VP, Ontario Corn Producers' Assoc; former professor of crop science and later associate dean, University of Guelph; former CEO, Ontario BioAuto Council
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bonpote.com
Quand des politiques disent "la France c'est que 1% des émissions de CO2, c'est aux autres pays d'agir", il faut systématiquement rappeler que le pays est le 8e plus grand émetteur historique et a donc une responsabilité très importante du réchauffement climatique actuel.
November 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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thewesternproducer.bsky.social
Are the bears finally losing their market grip? vist.ly/4ehjc #cdnag #westcdnag
Are the bears finally losing their market grip? | The Western Producer
Keeping tabs on market trends is important, but accurately gauging when trends begin to turn is a bankable skill.
www.producer.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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lebulletinagr.bsky.social
ÉTAT DES CULTURES 🌽Avec près de la moitié des superficies de maïs-grain récoltées, les rendements s’avèrent finalement meilleurs qu’attendus pour la majorité des répondants.

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🙏 Merci à G3, Les Moulins de Soulanges et Pioneer
October 31, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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npr.org
Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change. The IUCN is voting on whether those species should be allowed in nature. n.pr/4hhtAxo
Scientists are modifying wildlife DNA. Should these species be released into nature?
Scientists are researching ways to genetically modify plants and animals to be more resistant to threats like climate change. The IUCN is voting on whether those species should be allowed in nature.
n.pr
October 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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memsomerville.bsky.social
"The author and activist behind the term ‘#enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and what we can do about it"

I thought it would be harder to dump #Amazon. It wasn't. I haven't missed it.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?
Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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lebulletinagr.bsky.social
ÉTAT DES CULTURES 🌡️ Pas de gel mortel cette fois-ci, mais des effets visibles sur le feuillage et les plants. Le soya progresse rapidement vers la récolte, alors que le maïs reste très variable.

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🙏 Merci G3, Les Moulins de Soulanges et Pioneer.
September 26, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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mikegrunwald.bsky.social
So awesome: Greenlight Biosciences, the startup featured in my book for its RNA biopesticide that constipates potato beetles to death, gets approval for a new one that stops bee-killing “destructor mites” from reproducing. Science!

finance.yahoo.com/news/greenli...
GreenLight Biosciences Launches Norroa, the First RNA-Based Treatment for Varroa Mites, Offering New Hope Amid Record Bee Losses
GreenLight Biosciences ("the Company" or "GreenLight Bio") today announced the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) registration of Norroa™, the first-ever nature-based treatment specifically ...
finance.yahoo.com
September 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
terrydaynard.bsky.social
This is of interest, not so much for what Ms. Gilllam says (note the misleading statement about WHO, for example), but for the groups referenced.
rajpatel.org Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · Sep 23
Tucked into the Appropriations Bill is a limit on the right to sue pesticide manufacturers for harm. As always, Carey Gillam has the details. www.thenewlede.org/2025/09/in-w...
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
terrydaynard.bsky.social
But also this:
aniccia.bsky.social John Berry @aniccia.bsky.social · Sep 17
Our World in Data is lying in this thread when they claim to present "the latest reports" as they excluded the June 2025 report, which when included gives a rather different impression that undermines their growth narrative.

Truth is Waymo's service is very fragile and shutdown for ~week in June.
September 17, 2025 at 1:26 PM
terrydaynard.bsky.social
Very interesting.
ourworldindata.org Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · Sep 17
Californians now travel millions of miles each month in driverless taxis
A bar graph illustrates the growth of robotaxi usage in California over a two-year period, highlighting monthly passenger miles in paid driverless taxis. The y-axis ranges from 0 to 4 million miles, with annotations at each million-mile mark. The x-axis covers a timeline from August 2023 to May 2025. The bars increase steadily, showing an upward trend, particularly sharp growth after April 2024, reaching close to 4 million miles by May 2025. The title states that robotaxi usage has grown eightfold in just a year. Data sources are listed as the California Public Utilities Commission (2025). The image is licensed under CC BY.
September 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
terrydaynard.bsky.social
Tar spot detected in Quebec.
lebulletinagr.bsky.social Le Bulletin des agriculteurs @lebulletinagr.bsky.social · Sep 8
MAÏS ⚫ La tache goudronneuse de nouveau détectée au Québec

La maladie a été détectée pour la première fois en 2024 au Québec et en 2020 en Ontario, où elle est maintenant considérée endémique.

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September 8, 2025 at 9:22 PM
terrydaynard.bsky.social
Very interesting read. Why Bluesky is 1/60th size of Twitter, and the gap is not diminishing.
www.natesilver.net/p/what-is-bl...
What is Blueskyism?
And why is it so toxic for political persuasion?
www.natesilver.net
September 6, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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rothamsted.bsky.social
How much value do you place on soil organic amendments? Nice article from the Centre for High Carbon Capture Cropping @niab-uk.bsky.social by our own Ian Shield, based on data from our newest long term experiment on re-gen farming... b8b40240-cedc-4431-94d2-4d0998744f4d.usrfiles.com/ugd/f049db_6...
September 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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thewesternproducer.bsky.social
Trump administration set to abolish emissions rule for engines vist.ly/44cr3 #cdnag #westcdnag
Trump administration set to abolish emissions rule for engines | The Western Producer
The U.S. EPA has announced it intends to remove all greenhouse gas emissions regulations on light, medium and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles.
www.producer.com
August 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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agbioworld.bsky.social
Europe’s resistance to the use of biotech in ag has long dictated what farmers in the Global South can grow, but now a slow but steady revolution is taking place as a number of African nations move to embrace gene-editing on their own terms www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com/josephmaina2
JosephMaina | Africa's quiet biotech revolution
Africa's quiet biotech revolution
www.scienceforsustainableagriculture.com
August 15, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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ourworldindata.org
In low-income countries, most people work in farming; in richer countries, they work in services
This graphic illustrates the distribution of the labor force across different sectors—agriculture, industry, and services—based on income levels of countries in 2023. On the left, there is a stacked bar representing low-income countries, where 59% of the workforce is in agriculture, 10% in industry, and 31% in services. Next, the lower-middle-income group shows a breakdown of 40% in agriculture, 23% in industry, and 37% in services. The upper-middle-income countries have 21% in agriculture, 28% in industry, and 51% in services. Finally, in high-income countries, only 3% of the labor force is in agriculture, with 23% in industry and 74% in services. The title highlights the trend that higher-income countries have fewer agricultural workers and a greater proportion involved in industry and services. The footer indicates the data source is the International Labor Organization (2025)
August 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
terrydaynard.bsky.social
Study shows that root growth is important to helping plants procure water during droughts. Most farmers have sensed this is true for a few millennia.
August 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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davewcooper.bsky.social
We are selling our 2014 John Deere 6125M Tractor with a 4-year-old H310 loader for $105,000 obo. It has 2,366 hours, 40K PowerQuad Plus transmission, closed-center hydraulics, and Cat 3 HD 3-point hitch. Wheels set to fit in 30" rows. Message for details. One owner, Wendy driven. Uxbridge, Ontario.
August 8, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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theguardian.com
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published
Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm. But soon after the paper was published online, in the journal Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology, it found a global audience. Not all of the readers came for the science. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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maxroser.bsky.social
No, it's not the case that only China is responsible for the large decline in extreme poverty over the past decades.

We wrote about it recently: ourworldindata.org/data-insights/was-the-global-decline-of-extreme-poverty-only-due-to-china
July 13, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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agbioworld.bsky.social
⁦‪@stuartsmyth66‬⁩ writes that it was refreshing to see ag biotech receive a positive reception at a recent ⁦‪@FAO‬⁩ conference

www.producer.com/news/faos-su...
FAO’s support of ag biotech begins to return | The Western Producer
After 20 years, the UN's FAO is re-embracing ag biotech and gene-editing to improve food sustainability, marking a significant shift in its messaging.
www.producer.com
July 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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carlbergstrom.com
AI summaries kill search traffic. This has been an obvious consequence of Google's AI summary strategy since its inception.

Apparently the training data is so valuable that Google is willing to risk the neck of the goose that lays golden eggs.

Screenshot: thebullshitmachines.com/lesson-9-blu...
Screenshot from Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines (Bergstrom and West 2025). People wandering through a desert mirage, with the text: "We anticipate powerful, damaging spillover effects. If no one follows web links, there will be few incentives for people to create high-quality content in the first place. Meanwhile large language models make it easy to produce low-quality content at the touch of a button. Quality human-created information may be swamped by AI-generated bullshit."
July 5, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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farmradio.org
Every #CanadaDay, we celebrate George Atkins, the founder of Farm Radio International.

Today would have been George's 109th birthday. We are so proud to continue his legacy at Farm Radio International

Happy birthday George!
July 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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danbr.bsky.social
As we've written, technology has historically continued increasing global crop yields even in the face of climate change. Wheat yields have increased 218% since 1961, relative to a hypothetical 235% w/o climate change. thebreakthrough.org/issues/food-...
June 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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danbr.bsky.social
So many misleading headlines. The new Nature paper doesn't predict that crop yields will *fall*. It finds that climate change will slow growth in yields, but that thanks to innovation and other factors, yields will "probably" continue rising above today's levels.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
June 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM