Livestock

Nibbles: Bees, weird food, wagyu cattle, medieval agriculture, beer

India to research bees in detail.
Yak knob to go with your yak milk, sir?
George Lucas does his bit to conserve a weird cattle breed, the Japanese wagyu. Well, kinda.
Was the typical English village founded around 900 AD as a result of monastically-driven agricultural innovation?
Diverse healthy reasons to drink beer; Luigi unavailable for comment.

AGRA’s first eight PhD students get to work.
Papa Andina Regional Initiative assessed by CGIAR CAPrI. Can’t be bothered reading the whole thing? Try this.
Factsheets for farmers in Kenya and Uganda; Luigi’s MIL not available for comment.
Tequila for lunch: Jeremy comments: “Wish I could be at this seminar, at the University of California, Davis”.
Dogon agriculture 101.
Got yak milk?

Latest New Agriculturist online with nice piece on the alpaca y mucho mas…
A call for the consumption of more traditional foods in Botswana — “one-stop shop for the best health and nutrition.”

Customs unit seizes smuggled chromosomes, Sri Lankan academics uncooperative.
Teachers urged to use Global Seed Vault in lessons; native Memphian available for comment today!
No UG99 in Pakistan (yet). Optimism abounds everywhere.
Cool new book: Fungi in the Ancient World.
And on a related topic: full text (kinda) of old(ish) book on fermented foods.
New book peddles old how-horse-domestication-changed-the-world (or at least Europe) story. Prof. Renfrew has already commented. Lengthily.
Livestock need a Svalbard too. Old, but the videos are nice, and I don’t think we linked to this before.