- Talking to farmers. Gotta love it.
- ASTA’s Guide to Seed Management Practices. Need to register, but it’s not a big deal.
- The next Oxford Symposium will take place at St Catz on 12-14 September 2008. The Topic is Vegetables. Jeremy will be there.
- Fishy diversity … and not in a good way.
- Everything you ever wanted to know about Chioggia beets but were afraid to ask.
Nibbles: Wheat disease, Vanilla, Market regulation, Mixtures
- Yay! A new wheat disease answers Jeremy’s prayers.
- Tahitian vanilla; hybrid a long way from home.
- Small scale sales stomped on.
- Mixtures kinda sorta better, depending.
- Night soil kinda sorta good, depending.
Nibbles: Honey, Records, Fowl, Fungi
- GIS used to manage production and marketing of honey.
- Silly season story number 1 and number 2.
- Avian flu threatens Turkey’s Hacıkadın chickens.
- Lybia has truffles? From the new NWFP-Newsletter((FAO’s link is broken.)).
Nibbles: Ag origins, MSV origins, Land origins, Art,
- Podcast on the origins, history and future of agriculture. “Three annual grasses explain history.” “Wheat domesticated humans.” Etc. Richard Manning gives good value.
- The origin of Maize Streak Virus explored.
- Changes in Dutch agricultural land. More diversity in land use over time.
- More ag art. Via.
Nibbles: Hemp, Galip, Fort Collins, Dwarf cows, Persephone, Atolls
- No member of the plant kingdom has ever been so willfully and stubbornly misunderstood.
- EU funds US$ 300 million to develop galip nut (Canarium indicum) in New Britain.
- Happy Birthday, Fort Collins.
- First, pocket pigs. Now, mini-cows. Watch our hits go through the roof.
- The story of the mother who went to Hell to protect her daughter.
- Kiribati to get atoll agriculture development centre. But where will they put it?