Nibbles: Late blight, Drought, Diversification, Food prices, Long-horn cattle, Bean selection, UK to grow exotics

You say potatoes, I say tomatoes; either way, the blight gonna get them. LATER: Ok, there was a second link to Rodale.com from “tomatoes”, but that seems to have disappeared, and here’s the story on that, thanks to Jesse.
A huge haul of links to current articles about the drought in the US, and much else besides.
And a smattering of ideas that farmers could adopt to improve production and conservation, in the US and perhaps elsewhere too.
Speaking of which, goodish – or not-so-bad – news on food prices.
Longhorn cattle: a selection of good-looking pictures. ILRI to flood Flickr with African longhorns?
Good-looking beans find favour with Ugandan farmers.
UK curry eaters looking forward to climate change, the fools.