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Update. "#USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites"
politico.com/news/2025/01/31/u…

"Agriculture Department employees have been ordered to delete landing pages discussing climate change across agency websites and document climate change references for further review, according to an internal email obtained by POLITICO...."

#Agriculture #Censorship #Climate #Takedowns #Trump #USPol #USPolitics


*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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...excess water from flooded fields during the rainy season, facilitating agricultural productivity."

I don't recall having read anything about #monoculture during the #PreColumbian period in #SouthAmerica, granted, but *unique?*

Just have a cursory look at my older thread on #WaruWaru and judge for yourself.

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*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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...in #Bolivia.

The article, in my view, however, 👉grossly misstates the importance of the find:👈

"...#UmbertoLombardo, an environmental #archaeologist at the #UAB [#AutonomousUniversityOfBarcelona], has identified a 👉unique agricultural infrastructure previously undocumented anywhere else in the world.👈

This system enabled them to drain...


*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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...research [2023] dates the irrigated, raised-field technology in #SouthAmerica even earlier, 👉to 850 to 1,000 BCE.👈 There were several advanced #WaterManagement system in several regions of #SouthAmerica (#ChacrasHundidas / #ProducciónEnAndenes.)

The new research focuses on a 👉much later period, between 500 and 1400 *A.D.*👈. Moreover,
the #Casarabe people (only) lived in part of that region, the Llanos de #Moxos,...


*#SouthAmerica's historic, highly efficient irrigated #agriculture*
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New findings in #Nature and phys.org?

I'm neither an #archeologist, nor an engineer, but assuming that the the peer-reviewed article on phys.org does not omit any central aspects of the study in #Nature, it seems 👉rather narrow-minded in geographic and historic scope.👈

"Culturas hidráulicas de #Moxos"/ #Camellones" / #Sucacollos, / #WaruWaru, the latest...

phys.org/news/2025-01-discover…


The US Dept of #Agriculture’s $231B budget mainly funds nutrition aid. If confirmed, Trump’s agriculture secretary pick, Brooke Rollins, would lead the massive department. She’s a lawyer who runs a conservative think tank. A former deputy secretary explains how it works: buff.ly/4h0F8nK


"Yet I don’t think he can dial it back. He can call off his tariffs, claiming to have won big concessions from Canada and Mexico, or grant tariff exemptions to his friends, turning them into one more instrument of corruption. But his screeds against immigrants have, I believed, unleashed forces of hatred that he can’t rein in. And these forces will make America poorer as well as uglier."

#Trump #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #agriculture #FoodSupply #economy #construction #housing
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"At a time when Americans are still angry about the price of groceries and, with more justification, about the unaffordability of housing, Trump’s immigrant crackdown seems set to hobble food production and home construction."

#Trump #Republicans #immigrants #migrants #deportation #ICE #agriculture #FoodSupply #economy #construction #housing
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#Birdflu is back in Michigan with 8 new poultry outbreaks since December. #H5N1 has hit 11M birds, 900 cattle herds, pets, and wildlife nationwide. An expert in infectious diseases explains the risks to families, pets, and livestock—and efforts to stop its spread. theconversation.com/bird-flu-f… #AvianFlu #dairycows #agriculture


Economists point out a design flaw in federal funding aimed at supporting struggling #rural economies:They often require small towns to compete for #grants. Instead, federal agencies could do more to empower locally-determined transformation efforts. theconversation.com/one-way-tr… : #agriculture #RuralEconomy #politics


Long time no see! Some pictures of the vineyards I'm working on during this winter pruning season.
#vineyard #countryside #agriculture