Resilience Recap: Tractors Heading to the App World?
The water levels of the Great Lakes continue to be at record or near-record highs and could cause additional flooding concerns as we enter the fall season. Lake Superior is up one inch in the last month, up 8″ in the last year and is now 13″ above the Average August level. It’s has now tied the August record high level set in 1952.
However, this year’s wet winter doesn't end climate change risk to Colorado River
Snow swamped mountains across the U.S. West last winter, leaving enough to thrill skiers into the summer, swelling rivers and streams when it melted, and largely making wildfire restrictions unnecessary. But the wet weather can be misleading.
“We want farmers to have affordable access to cutting-edge technology at their doorsteps,” says a senior Agriculture Ministry official. “There are now more than 38,000 custom hiring centres (CHCs) across the country, which rent out 2.5 lakh pieces of farm equipment every year. By the end of the month, we plan to launch a new mobile app to efficiently connect farmers with these CHCs, just like Uber connects you to cabs.”
Can Mushrooms Improve Cattle Farming? These students think so!
“For small-to-medium sized cattle farmers, the winter season poses major challenges to sustainability and profitability. The cost of feed during the winter season is especially high, hence farmers must choose between using their land for crops or livestock production.”