The World Has a Fertilizer
Dreaded Banana-
Infecting Fungus Spreads
to Latin America
The pathogenic fungus Fusarium wilt tropical race
4 (TR4), already widespread on several other
continents, has been found for the first time
infecting banana plants in Latin America,
researchers confirmed earlier this month (August
8). Fungicides are ineffective against the
disease, and observers have long feared its
incursion into the world’s top banana-
producing region. Colombia has declared a
national emergency to try to contain its
spread.
Problem. Bioengineered Corn
Could Save Us.
In retrospect, a Wisconsin cornfield in mid-
September 2018 wasn’t exactly the best place
for an academic seminar. It was hot. There
were horseflies. The sun cast a glare on the
white poster boards, and the metallic chunk-
chunk-chunking of a nearby grain elevator
made it difficult at times to hear the main
speaker. He was Walter Goldstein, a soft-
spoken man in his mid-60s who had invited
about 30 researchers and farmers to this field
to make a point: Corn could thrive with little
to no nitrogen fertilizer.
Polyculture is a form of Farm Biosecurity
agriculture
Toolkit

We have tools, tips and manuals to help you

implement farm biosecurity on your property. You
Polyculture is a form of agriculture in which more than one
will also find individual profiles for a range of
species is grown at the same time and place in imitation of
livestock and crops: or you can create a profile
the diversity of natural ecosystems.[2] Polyculture is the
tailored to your farm.
opposite of monoculture, in which only members of one
plant or animal species are cultivated together.
American Aquaculture
An Overview of the Current Status, Environmental Impacts, and Legislative Opportunities

The ocean is the final frontier of food. In much of the world, the only wild food that people consume is seafood.
However, seafood is farmed as well as wild caught, and the aquaculture sector is growing faster than many other
major food production sectors.1 Domestic marine aquaculture has increased in volume and value since 2009.
 The Future of Fish
Farming May Be
An example of climate-smart Indoors
aquaculture in Bangladesh.

An example of climate-smart aquaculture in Bangladesh.

Herbivorous fish farming/aquaculture; integrated rice-fish-
duck farming; integrated brackish water aquaculture-
mangrove etc. have good potential to adapt to and mitigate
climate change impacts. Such practices would enhance
farmer's income, diversify their livelihoods, recycle wastes
for food production and are energy and resource efficient
(Kibria et al., 2013; Kibria and Haroon. New advancements in water filtration
and circulation make it possible for
indoor fish farms to dramatically grow
in size and production
Intensive farming
Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming
(as opposed to extensive farming), is a type of
agriculture, both of crop plants and of animals, with
higher levels of input and output per cubic unit of
agricultural land area. It is characterized by a low fallow
ratio, higher use of inputs such as capital and labour,
and higher crop yields per cubic unit land area.
The term aquaculture broadly refers to the cultivation
of aquatic organisms in controlled aquatic
environments for any commercial, recreational or
public purpose. The breeding, rearing and harvesting of
plants and animals takes place in all types of water
environments including ponds, rivers, lakes, the ocean
and man-made “closed” systems on land.
Dear Modern Farmer: Is Fish
Farming Sustainable?
MAR 31, 2015
Brian Barth
Answers to slippery questions like: How is certified organic seafood
produced and why isn't it found in North America?

When it comes to the wild fish we eat, we hope that the water they
were swimming in is free of pollution and that fishing practices
respect the more sensitive, vulnerable species. Labels to this effect
are just as commonplace as their counterparts for fruit and
vegetables.However, farmed fish – domesticated species reared in
contained, controlled environments – are a whole other can of
worms. The grocery store labels for farmed fish typically indicate the
country they were farmed in, but nothing to clue us in on how they
were farmed.