U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports began reopening late on Thursday after dockworkers and port operators reached a wage deal to settle the industry's biggest work stoppage in nearly half a century, but clearing the cargo backlog will take time.
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U.S. port strike ends leaving cargo backlog
Tentative deal includes 62 per cent wage hike over six years
Study indicates methane emissions from dairy farms higher than previously thought
To reach net zero by 2050, the UK must reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and methane emissions from farm livestock pose a thorny problem. Ruminants such as cattle and sheep emit methane from their digestive systems and their manure. Scientists are trying to find ways to reduce these methane emissions without wiping out large parts of
Crop tour forecasts record wheat yields in parts of North Dakota
Devils Lake, North Dakota | Reuters – U.S. spring wheat crops in northwest and north-central North Dakota are expected to produce the highest yields since at least 1994, the Wheat Quality Council said on an annual tour on Wednesday. Crop scouts estimated the average hard red spring wheat yield at 53.7 bushels per acre, up
Pasteurization may not clear bird flu virus from heavily infected milk
Reuters – In raw milk samples spiked with high amounts of bird flu virus, small amounts of infectious virus were still detectable after treatment with a standard pasteurization method, researchers said on Friday. The findings reflect experimental conditions in a laboratory and should not be used to draw any conclusions about the safety of the
Canada forecasts hotter-than-average summer as peak wildfire season nears
Reuters – Canada is expecting a hotter-than-usual summer with slightly below-average precipitation in central Canada, government officials said on Tuesday, offering little relief from ongoing drought and the risk of another bad wildfire season. Last year, Canada experienced its worst-ever fire season, with more than 6,600 blazes burning 15 million hectares, an area roughly seven
Russia widens grain export curbs
Reuters – Russian authorities have halted grain exports on some ships belonging to Aston, one of the biggest local grain trading houses, two industry sources said. The move widens a quality probe that has already curbed exports of another major trader. According to sources, Russia’s agricultural watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor has not provided some of the company’s
Baltimore shipping set to resume by end of April
Reuters – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said April 4 that it expects to open a new channel to the Port of Baltimore by the end of April, freeing up commercial shipping blocked by a collapsed bridge. It expects to restore port access to full capacity by the end of May. The main channel
Chile’s bees devastated by floods after fires
Reuters – Extreme weather events in Chile, including major recent floods and wildfires earlier this year, are devastating colonies of the humble bee, a key pollinator for crops of avocados and almonds in one of the global South’s key food-producing countries. Heavy rainfall has caused floods that have blocked roads and prompted evacuations in the
Controversial U.S. cull kills 19 feral cattle in New Mexico wilderness area
Reuters – Nineteen feral cattle have been shot from a helicopter by federal employees in a New Mexico wilderness area in a cull opposed by ranchers and criticized by the state’s governor. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) said the three-day operation was the most efficient way to stop the undomesticated animals from destroying endangered species’
Bayer sued for barring non-U.S. citizen from Roundup settlement
Reuters – A new U.S. lawsuit accuses Bayer of illegally excluding a Virginia farm worker from a settlement over claims its Roundup herbicide causes cancer because she is not a U.S. citizen. The complaint said Elvira Reyes-Hernandez, who used Roundup while working on tree farms before being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2019, expected to
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