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The Glenties harvest fair is one of the oldest festivals in Ireland, running for almost 300 years now. This year’s festival is on from the 9 to the 13th of september. For a list of all the events, check out www.glenties.ie or go on facebook and see what events will suit you.
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Fruits for food and money
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Mariam Zongo lives in Noberé, Burkina Faso, and like many of the women in her community she makes money from trees.
Harvesting, processing and selling tree products like these Lannea fruit is traditionally women’s work. That’s why work to secure the future of villagers’ trees and forests benefits women so much. It gives them financial independence, which most often means better access to healthcare and education for the whole family too.
Corley Ranch Harvest Festival
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RPT-Grains Week Ahead-Record US harvest could herald $ 4 new-crop corn
Reuters December corn could slide to $ 4 after July * Forecast for record US corn crop weighs December * July corn seen supported by tight supplies * Soybeans have fundamental support By KT Arasu CHICAGO, May 13 (Reuters) – The forecast of a record corn harvest … GRAINS-US soybean futures hit 6-wk low as funds sell long positions For Now, Soybeans Look Cooked Morning markets: China loans move fails to reassure markets |
The Teff Harvest, Northern Ethiopia
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Men and women harvest the Ethiopian staple grain teff in a roadside field between Axum and Adwa in Northern Ethiopia.
According to Wikipedia:
Teff or taf (Eragrostis tef, Amharic ṭēff, Tigrinya ṭaff) is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to the northern Ethiopian Highlands of northeastern Africa.
It has an attractive nutrition profile, being high in dietary fiber and iron and providing protein and calcium.
It has a sour taste. It is similar to millet and quinoa in cooking, but the seed is much smaller.
Teff is an important food grain in Ethiopia and Eritrea, where it is used to make injera . . . (It is now raised in the USA, in Idaho in particular.)
Because of its small seeds (less than 1 mm diameter), one [person] can hold enough to sow a large area in one hand. This property makes teff particularly suited to a seminomadic lifestyle.
The word "tef" is connected by folk etymology to the EthioSemitic root "ṭff", which means "lost" (because of the small size of the grain).
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Chef Keith Snow from www.harvesteating.com creates a delicious ice cream with blueberries and vanilla bean.
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 Financial Times |
USDA predicts record corn harvest
GoErie.com Wheat supplies have been ample after robust harvests in other countries pushed up global supplies. Soybean production was forecast at 3.205 billion bushels, up from the 2011 year with higher yields more than offsetting lower harvested acres. Colo. winter wheat harvest forecast at 92M bushels Possible record corn harvest would swell US stocks, drive prices down |
