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[Localize - Farmers Market @Localizefoodapp]

Young farmers are swapping tractors for teams of horses, betting on the one engine a bank can never repossess.

A single modern tractor can top $200,000, with flagship models running past $600,000, debt that can bind a farm for decades.

A team of horses eats hay grown right on the farm, and a foal replaces the engine for free.

Farms like Around the Table Farm in Poulsbo, Washington stay small on purpose, sell locally, and owe nothing to a lender.

Support debt-free farmers on Localize.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Bees aren’t the only pollinators keeping plants alive.

[✏️ Hashem Al-Ghaili]

[SynBioBeta @SynBioBeta]

Hyfé is negotiating its first commercial deployment for a platform that turns food-processing side streams into specialty fibers, bioactives and other ingredients. Its proposed model puts licensed, co-located refineries directly alongside food processors.

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[InnerPlant @Inner_Plant]

Soybeans aren't the only crops that need help 🌱

InnerPlant has expanded coverage from its soybean detection technology to corn plants as part of the team's CropVoice Whole Farm network. Read more about the increased crop protection versatility.

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[Kevin → Plant Daddy @KevinEspiritu]

When someone says "save the bees", they're almost always talking about honeybees. But - while there are real issues plaguing honeybees - the bees that REALLY need saving are the 4,000 native bee species that are in REAL trouble...

Honeybees are NOT native to North America. They were brought from Europe in the 1600s. It's best to think of them more as livestock than a native species that needs to be protected

That's not to say there aren't real issues with honeybees. Colony collapse disorder, varroa mites, and so on

A few years back, I interviewed Peter Nelson, who directed The Pollinators documentary, for my @epicgardening podcast. He opened my eyes tot he world of "managed beekeeping." This is an entire industry where people literally truck honeybee colonies across the country to pollinate almonds, apples, you name it

But why would you need to do this? Surely there are already bees in the area to pollinate these crops? Well, there WERE, but monocropping, pesticide use, and many other "modern" practices wiped out the native species in those areas

North America has roughly 4,000 native bee species, most of which don't live in hives. Many are fully solitary creators. The craziest part is how specialized they are: up to 45% are "pollen specialists," meaning they feed from ONE plant or ONE plant family. If that plant disappears from your area, those bees are gone...forever

So, while it's fine to add a honeybee hive to your property and harvest delicious raw honey, it's also possible they're outcompeting native wild bees for resources

At the very least you should be planting for native species too:

To do this, choose local native flowers that bloom at different times of year. Leave nesting areas, bare ground, dead stems left standing in fall. You can add a bee house too with sticks, logs with holes drilled in them, and so on to provide potential nesting habitat for native bee species

So - the "save the bees" conversation NEEDS to include the 4,000 species nobody's talking about, but are a crucial part of North American ecosystems

[evolve.ag @evolve_ag]

@KevinEspiritu Thank you for such a detailed report about Native bees!

[Grant Stoll @grantonsoil]

A European supermarket is growing 900,000 bags of salad on the roof and selling it downstairs.

Meanwhile in America, we now have nearly 12,000 confirmed and probable cases of an explosive diarrhea parasite, and the exact source still hasn't been confirmed.

Local systems have traceability built in.

Germany's largest supermarket chain, REWE, is taking it to a whole new level:

REWE opened Europe's first supermarket with a farm on the roof back in 2021.

That store grows fish and basil together right above the shopping aisles, through an aquaponics system where fish waste fertilizes the basil and uses roughly 90% less water than normal farming.

Their newer store in Berlin grows over 900,000 bags of salad a year on the roof, picked fresh every single day, and it only takes 23 days from seed to store shelf.

The whole building runs on rainwater and heat the store would have wasted anyway, and it's even built from wood instead of concrete so it can be taken apart and reused someday instead of torn down.

In America, we've built supply chains so long that when outbreaks occur, the source is nearly impossible to find.

More than 11,000 domestic cyclosporiasis cases are now under report or investigation, and the source still hasn’t been definitively confirmed.

That kind of confusion doesn't happen with a rooftop farm right up the stairs from your shopping cart.

Let’s push our dollars toward transparency in America through buying local.

If you need help finding a local farmer, check out the Localize App.

[evolve.ag @evolve_ag]

The future is now

[Danny Bernstein @bernsteinres]

autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is @tricrobotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

[Peter Yared @peteryared]

Super proud to launch AI-powered news hub creation on https://t.co/Ds2rg6h9eW and to partner with heavily-censored Brazilian dissidents on https://t.co/ZIlijol2AP, a censorship-resistant news hub that ensures all voices are heard leading up to the 2026 Brazil election.

More at https://t.co/dmPtVXSh97

[Kevin → Plant Daddy @KevinEspiritu]

While everyone argues about data centers and water, California almonds quietly use up to 80x more, AND the whole industry only survives because of trucked-in "livestock"...

Every February, beekeepers transport nearly every commercial honeybee colony in the United States (around 2.8 million hives) to California to pollinate almonds.

It's the largest "managed-pollination" event on the planet. Almonds cover 1.4 million acres and need bees to pollinate so they set nuts.

So why do we need to truck them in? Well, almonds are grown in huge monoculture orchards, meaning the native bee species are all but eradicated...there's nothing for them to eat most of the year.

To fix the problem WE created, we ship in bees from across the country. I interviewed the creator of the 2019 documentary The Pollinators, which followed this migration and brought a lot of this story into public view.

First off, honeybees aren't native to North America. They were brought from Europe in the 1600s. The "bee crisis" you read about, with national colony losses around 55% last year and some commercial keepers losing 60 to 70% in a single season, is happening to a managed, introduced species.

It's a livestock collapse driven by long-haul transport, pesticide exposure at bloom, hives packed together spreading mites and viruses, and a monoculture diet.

Meanwhile, North America has roughly 4,000 native bee species. Most are solitary, don't make honey, don't sting, and quietly pollinate everything from squash to blueberries.

Research out of UC Davis and UC Berkeley has been direct about this: when blue orchard bees, bumble bees, and other natives forage alongside honeybees in almond orchards, fruit set goes UP, not down.

The presence of wild bees changes how honeybees move through the trees and makes the honeybees themselves more effective pollinators.

So the fix isn't more honeybee hives. It's hedgerows, wildflower strips, bare ground for ground-nesting bees, and uncut field edges, aka habitat for the natives who were doing this work long before we started trucking in livestock.

Honeybees are livestock. Native bees are the wildlife, and we should be planting to include them in our agriculture.

[evolve.ag @evolve_ag]

Their takedown had way more to do about Bill Gates than MAHA.

[The Free Press @TheFP]

All it took was two Facebook posts to turn an online mob against Apeel Sciences and its booming business of keeping food fresh longer, writes Laurie P. Cohen. https://t.co/4kGkRx3xFJ

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Hydroponic barley grows in 7 days, soil-free and weather-proof. Cows love it, farmers save, and feed is evolving.

[Elliot Swartz @elliotswartz]

How can you be opposed to this?

https://t.co/au1rfUhray

[evolve.ag @evolve_ag]

@Waymo Can i have an access code for Miami??

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Here's the simple reason why ruminant meat (beef, lamb) is superior to monogastric meat (chicken, pork).

Monogastrics store whatever they’re fed.

Grains in → linoleic acid in their fat.

That’s why pork fat = 20% PUFA, chicken fat = 25% PUFA.

Ruminants are different. Their multi-chambered stomachs biohydrogenate polyunsaturated fats, converting unstable seed oils into stable saturated & monounsaturated fats.

Grains in → beef fat still ~2–4% PUFA.

Translation:

🐖 + 🐓 = vehicles for industrial seed oils.

🐄 + 🐑 = built-in detox machines that protect you from seed oils.

[The Uri @uricohenisrael]

🇮🇱Israeli startup Remilk, one of the world’s leading companies in cultured milk, will launch its animal-free milk in Israeli stores starting January 2026.

Remilk uses fermentation to produce dairy proteins that are identical to cow’s milk- but made entirely without cows🥛🐄

[evolve.ag @evolve_ag]

@tropicalupdate You rock!

[Dave Asprey @daveasprey]

Ever wonder how much it costs to get propaganda like this into the news?

Bayer/Monsanto is spending crazy amounts of money trying to get a liability shield so we can’t sue them for ruining the soil and our health.

And now they are trying to convince you that spraying an antibiotic that locks up minerals onto your food is “just fine.”

How dumb do they think we are?

[evolve.ag @evolve_ag]

@DrShayanSen Can I give this to my dog?!?

[evolve.ag @evolve_ag]

@tropicalupdate