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Post-Harvest Soil Testing: What Your Fields Are Telling You
The most important task before winter arrives is harvesting, ensuring that nothing is wasted in what amounts to an entire season of work. Gathering and preparing all the produce for market or storage is crucial. Follow that up with a post-harvest soil test, and you’re even more prepared for next season. Look for at-home tests…
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How to Grow Anthurium Indoors: A 15-Step Planting and Care Guide for Potted Flamingo Flowers
Hello indoor gardeners, we are here to share very useful information for beginners on how to grow Anthurium indoors with a 15-step planting and care guide. Anthuriums, also known as flamingo flowers, can bring a tropical feel to your home with their shiny leaves and bright, heart-shaped flowers. Because they can filter the air inside,…
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Are We Being Misled About the Benefits and Risks of Statins?
What is the dirty little secret of drugs for lifestyle diseases? Drug companies go out of their way—in direct-to-consumer ads, for example—to “present pharmaceutical drugs as a preferred solution to cholesterol management while downplaying lifestyle change.” You see this echoed in the medical literature, as in this editorial in the Journal of the American Medical…
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Purdue Applied Microbiome Sciences to host 2024 Midwest Microbiome Symposium
Seminar will highlight developments in the relationship between resilience and microbial communities “We are very excited to host again as the Midwest Microbiome Symposium returns home to Purdue this year, and are looking forward to deepening the academic conversation around how microbiomes contribute to resilience of both natural and engineered systems,” said Stephen Lindemann, associate professor…
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Should You Take Statins?
How can you calculate your own personal heart disease risk to help you determine if you should start on a cholesterol-lowering statin drug? The muscle-related side effects from cholesterol-lowering statins “are often severe enough for patients to stop taking the drug. Of course, these side effects could be coincidental or psychosomatic and have nothing to…
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In Oregon, How Much Agritourism Is Too Much?
“What hurts me is that this is some of the best farmland in the world,” McAdams said. “It makes it harder to farm if you’re trying to drive your equipment around a roundabout.” Between 2017 and 2022, the state lost 4 percent of its total farmland, according to the most recent USDA census. Simultaneously, the…
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Organic Valley Debuts Clean-Label Oat Beverages
Organic Valley expanded its oat portfolio with the launch of Organic Valley Oat Beverages. Made with organic oats ethically sourced from the cooperative’s family farms, the new Oat Beverages will be available in two versions, Original and Creamy, and on store shelves nationwide this fall. The Original Oat Beverage is crafted with three ingredients, organic…
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Slice Soda Adds Root Beer Flavor With Pre-, Pro- and Postbiotics
Slice Soda, the beloved ’80s brand that’s back and better-for-you thanks to new Suja Life ownership, announced the launch of its new Root Beer flavor. Crafted with the rich, creamy flavor of the beloved soda fountain staple, Slice’s better-for-you formula has a unique blend of prebiotics, probiotics and postbiotics – the only brand in the…
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New online tool helps growers choose cover crops
First for Western region, tool recommends species based on farmer goals, local conditions For the first time, farmers in California and throughout the West have a decision-support tool that recommends cover-crop species based on growers’ unique situations and goals. “This tool is the first of its kind – publicly available, free to use, and validated…
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Biostimulants vs. Fertilizers: Impacts on Crop Growth
Biostimulants vs. Fertilizers: Key Differences and Impacts on Crop Growth Biostimulants are increasingly popular, but are they as effective as synthetic fertilizers? Explore the key differences between traditional fertilizers and these naturally-derived materials to learn the best tools for improving production on your farm. Source: modernfarmer.com