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Topic: crops

Canvas bags filled with food crops (Getty Images/Shaiith)

How gleaning fights food waste

Natasha Khullar Relph - Grist
Canvas bags filled with food crops (Getty Images/Shaiith)

The vast importance of water in farming

Frida Garza - Grist
Fresh food and vegetables at a Farmer's Market (Rodger Shagam/Getty Images)

How to best mitigate pesticide use

Jessica Knapp - The Conversation
Canvas bags filled with food crops (Getty Images/Shaiith)

Scientists aim to adapt crops

Lourdes Medrano - Undark
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AI reshapes potato farming

Reem Abukmeil, Ahmad Al-Mallahi - The Conversation
Hay is dried and stored at the Fondomonte alfalfa farm in Vicksburg, Arizona on Monday, June 27, 2023. (Caitlin O'Hara for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A change to an Arizona alfafa farm

Jake Bittle - Grist
Farmer harvesting grapes on sunny day (Getty Images/Morsa Images)

At large, American farmers are aging

David R. Buys, John J. Green, Mary Nelson Robertson - The Conversation
Harvesting alfalfa crop, aerial view. (Getty Images)

Using abstraction to diversify farming

Barath Raghavan, Michael Kantar - The Conversation
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Canvas bags filled with food crops (Getty Images/Shaiith)

The connection between crops and El Niño

David Ubilava - The Conversation
Aerial view of solar power plant that provides energy for vegetable greenhouses (Getty Images/owngarden)

Solar panels' importance in farming

Joshua M. Pearce - The Conversation
Dry and cracked riverbed is seen during drought season on April 23, 2021 in Santa Clara County, California. (Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images)

Flash droughts threaten the environment

Antonia Hadjimichael - The Conversation
(AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)

Scientists try spray-on plant vaccines

Fabiola De Marchi - Massive Science
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FILE - In this Aug. 4, 2011 file photo, signs are displayed at the Cargill plant in Springdale, Ark. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File) (AP)

Is Cargill really ending deforestation?

Nathanael Johnson - Grist
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Are GMOs as bad as we think?

Andrew Scarpellli
Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

Joanna Rothkopf
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Lindsay Abrams
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Monsanto's scary new scheme

Lina Khan
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Joseph Stromberg - Smithsonian.com
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Lindsay Abrams
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Pete Danko - Earth Techling
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Jocelyn C. Zuckerman
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