A century ago, Americans barely ate soy. Now it’s everywhere in people’s diets, even in places they don’t look or expect.
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Teaming groups of private landowners with federal efforts yielded measurable success, at least in terms of defending cornfields.
US sewage treatment plants likely don’t get rid of all the disease-causing protozoa, and monitoring discharged wastewater for it is difficult.
As the Trump administration moves to end Temporary Protected Status for several immigrant groups and employers continue to warn about labor shortages, researchers at Manifest Law analyzed where businesses rely most heavily on the H-2A and H-2B seasonal worker programs—two legal pathways employers use to fill temporary jobs when domestic workers are unavailable. The analysis ranks states and metropolitan areas by seasonal foreign labor requests relative to the size of their local workforce, offering a detailed look at where employers depend most heavily on H-2A and H-2B workers to meet recurring staffing needs. It also identifies which occupations generate the greatest demand and how reliance on agricultural and non-agricultural seasonal foreign labor differs across the country.
As the Trump administration moves to end Temporary Protected Status for several immigrant groups and employers continue to warn about labor shortages, researchers at Manifest Law analyzed where businesses rely most heavily on the H-2A and H-2B seasonal worker programs—two legal pathways employers use to fill temporary jobs when domestic workers are unavailable. The analysis ranks states and metropolitan areas by seasonal foreign labor requests relative to the size of their local workforce, offering a detailed look at where employers depend most heavily on H-2A and H-2B workers to meet recurring staffing needs. It also identifies which occupations generate the greatest demand and how reliance on agricultural and non-agricultural seasonal foreign labor differs across the country.
The Infinite Loop by Nebius reports on how startups like Ecorobotix and FarmDroid are using AI to optimize farming, reduce chemical use, and tackle labor shortages in agriculture.
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Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic fertilizer was invented.
Decades of farmers using more fertilizer than they needed have quietly built up large reserves of nutrients in the soil.