agriculture

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Modern agriculture depends on precise timing of delivering nutrients to plants.

From Salon • Apr. 8, 2026

"Being too permissive with wild animals has led to an overpopulation of rabbits, deer and wild boar," says Òscar Ordeig, the minister for agriculture, fisheries and food in the regional government of Catalonia.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

Artificial intelligence and data driven tools now guide many aspects of agriculture and food distribution.

From Science Daily • Apr. 5, 2026

In the U.S., traditional plantation agriculture died with the end of slavery in 1865.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Yet those other Mediterranean zones not only failed to rival the Fertile Crescent as early sites of food production; they never gave rise to indigenous agriculture at all.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond