May 12 2010

Teat Tweets Tell of Cow’s Milking Experience

A dairy farmer near Waterloo, Ontario, Canada has 12 cows that tweet about the milk they're producing from their teats. This is not cow porn. This is real, hard-core science. Ron Broglio, a visiting professor at the University of Waterloo ...

Feb 08 2010

Super Beans Aim for the Sky

Tag: Family Farms, Food Sources, Green TechAlyssa Danigelis @ 4:42 pm
I have some exciting bean news that bodes well for struggling smallholder farmers in Africa. The Rwanda Agricultural Research Institute announced that it has unveiled 15 varieties of climbing beans that put the common "bush bean" in the dust. The ...