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‘Cancer is just everywhere’: could farming be behind Iowa’s unfolding health crisis? | US news

Six months ago, Alex Hammer was diagnosed with colon cancer at the age of 37. Dianne Chambers endured surgery, chemotherapy…

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What is ‘Grow a Garden?’ The Roblox farming simulator exploding in popularity

The fastest-growing video game in the world might just be a game within a game. Grow a Garden, labeled as…

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Labour cutting farming budget in England by £100m a year, figures shows | Spending review 2025

Labour is cutting the farming budget in England by £100m a year, spending review figures show. Despite the decrease, the…

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Revealed: More than 24,000 factory farms have opened across Europe | Farming

American-style intensive livestock farms are spreading across Europe, with new data revealing more than 24,000 megafarms across the continent. In…

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This farming shortcut promised better harvests. It may be hurting the soil instead. » Yale Climate Connections

When someone asks farmer Naiku Gaikwad about soil pollution in his village, he points to an abandoned 40-foot well filled…

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Trump vowed to help US farmers. These four say his policies are ‘wreaking havoc’ | Farming

Donald Trump may have won the votes of the US’s most farming-dependent counties by an average of 78% in the…

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Delay farmer inheritance tax changes ‘to allow for better formulation’, say MPs | Farming

A group of influential MPs has urged the government to delay controversial planned changes to inheritance tax for farmers to…

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European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming | Farming

More than 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils are degraded due to intensive agriculture, with similar damage to about 40%…

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New reports tell us cattle and sheep farming can be sustainable – don’t believe them, it’s all bull | George Monbiot

The fire that has just destroyed 500 hectares (1,230 acres) of Dartmoor should have been impossible. It should not be…

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‘A win-win for farmers’: how flooding fields in north-west England could boost crops | Farming

“I really don’t like the word ‘paludiculture’ – most people have no idea what it means,” Sarah Johnson says. “I…

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