Winemakers embrace AI and IoT tools to improve their vineyards and produce better wine

Winemakers are using AI, IoT sensors, and other tech innovations to make wine more sustainable and in line with consumers' shifting tastes.

Why India can't contain 5 million destructive yet beloved stray cows, which killed 900 people in the last four years

The stray cattle roam freely in the streets of India, eating garbage, causing car accidents, attacking people, and spreading disease.

North Dakotans are outraged as Bill Gates, the largest private farmland owner in the US, apparently buys a $13.5 million potato farm

Gates' farmland holdings are largely controlled by trusts, which aren't allowed under North Dakota law. The state's attorney general is inquiring.

Indonesia, the world's top cooking-oil exporter, says it's going to ban exports of the oil this week, and it's sent the global prices of edible oils soaring

Indonesia accounts for about half of the world's supply of palm oil — the world's most widely used vegetable oil.

An indoor farming startup is valued at $2.3 billion after a historic fundraising round as climate change concerns become more urgent

VC funding for indoor farming tripled to almost $1.9 trillion last year, and Bowery's deal is the biggest on record for the industry.

Animals stranded on board 20 livestock ships waiting to pass through the jammed Suez Canal could starve and die if the situation lasts much longer, charity warns

There is a risk of "starvation, dehydration," and death for the animals stranded on the livestock ships stuck in the Suez Canal jam.

Trump administration sued over decision that critics say would slash wages for more than 200,000 farm workers

In September, the US Department of Agriculture said it would no longer conduct the wage survey used to calculate pay for agricultural guest workers.

These 6 Coronavirus Precautions Probably Aren't Worth Your Time, According to Experts

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