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[credit provider=”Scott Olson/Getty Images” url=”http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/cow-feeds-in-a-drought-damaged-pasture-as-temperatures-news-photo/148483144″] We spent most of last summer documenting the incredible drought ravaging America’s heartland.It was too soon to know just how bad it was going to be, since the harvest would come a few months later.
[credit provider=”Scott Olson/Getty Images” url=”http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/cow-feeds-in-a-drought-damaged-pasture-as-temperatures-news-photo/148483144″] According to the NOAA, 2012 will likely set a record for the warmest year recorded in U.S. history.
[credit provider=”Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/hdrchicago/2063987343/”] Record amounts of red meat and pork were produced in August, according to new USDA data.Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 4.39 billion pounds in August, up 2 per cent from the 4.30 billion pounds produced in August 2011.
[credit provider=”O’hAodha on www.flickr.com” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohaodha/4006003747/”] Morgan Stanley’s Hussein Allidina is out with his latest agricultural commodities update.The news: We are in for a big burn on prices, as record heat and drought roasts corn and soybean crops into oblivion.
[credit provider=”Flickr/The Pug Father” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/fleur-design/428341583/”] A Russian farm was forced to kill all of its 30,736 pigs after an outbreak of African Swine Fever, reports Bloomberg. Russian authorities initially ordered half of the pigs at the Plemzavod Industrialny in the Krasnodar region to be killed. However, after veterinarians examined pigs that had […]
[credit provider=”lunchtimemama via Flickr” url=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunchtimemama/100258876/sizes/l/in/photostream/”] The world loves its meat. Unfortunately, our insane appetite for the fleshy food product is also destroying the planet. Among the wide-ranging environmental impacts associated with conventional livestock production include global warming, land degradation, and air and water pollution.