Nibbles: Coffee rust, Wheat blast, Livestock yield gap, Livestock adaptation, Extension, Med diet, Organic < conventional, Douglas fir breeding, Best moustache in cryo, Fortifying rice

Coffee rust is doing a number on livelihoods in Central America.
Wheat blast could do the same in South America.
ILRI DG on smallholder livestock producers: one-third don’t have the conditions in which to be viable, one-third can go either way and one–third can be successful. I suppose all of them are going to need adaptation options.
Not to mention extension services.
Meanwhile, bureaucrats busy protecting the Mediterranean diet.
The inevitable productivity penalty of organic.”
Douglas fir ready for its genomic closeup.
Cryopreservation update, with video goodness.
Lots of ways to skin the malnutrition cat: zinc and rice.