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Bruce MacDonald

From WHEAT LIFE:

"Flour sacks began replacing barrels as flour containers in the later 1800s, when the sewing machine made it possible to sew a sturdy sack that could hold flour. Flour sacks dominated the industry until the 1940s when paper sacks, which were introduced 20 years earlier, became the main form of packaging."
wheatlife.org/when-flour-was-s

A lot of these old seed and flour sacks back in the day were manufactured by a Minneapolis company whose logo was a cat out of the bag! Ope!

(You need go no further than the Minnesota State Fair to see a superb permanent collection of seed and flour sacks right there in the Ag-Hort building, not far from the crop art.)

Detail of a burlap seed bag from a company in Olivia, Minnesota. The logo is for Bemis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and features a cat emerging from the bag.
#Minneapolis#flour#milling
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Bytes Europe

Purdue economists discuss technology, farm profitability – AgriNews byteseu.com/874133/ #business #corn #FarmEquipment #farmland #Markets #PurdueUniversity #Science #soybeans #Technology #wheat

Bytes Europe · Purdue economists discuss technology, farm profitability – AgriNewsDENVER — Economists from Purdue University discussed the role of technology in improving farm profitability at the 2025 Commodity Classic.Technology can boost production, streamline processes on the farm and boost efficiencies — but their effectiveness varies from farm to farm.There are five managerial levers a farmer can pull, said Michael Langemeier, director of the Center for Commercial Agriculture at Purdue.1. Output price: Manage price for what you get for what you produce.2. Yield: Manage how much output you produce.3. Costs: Manage how much it costs you to produce.4. Assets: Manage your balance sheet/what tools you use to produce.5. People: Manage
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Linknation

what is #imho the #Ukraine #war all about?

#imho: whoever controls #Ukraine, controls #Africa and #MiddleEast

because #Africa and #MiddleEast is MASSIVELY dependant (still) from cheap #food #wheat import from #Ukraine

imho that's what it is mostly about

sounds like #Trump or #Zelenskyy or both do not want a #miningdeal ?

because yes it would be bad for #Russia

"The #mineraldeal negotiated between the United States and Ukraine is a devastating development for Russia. Indeed, it is in some ways more important than any peace deal President Donald Trump might negotiate to end the fighting. Once implemented, it will mean that Russia has effectively lost the war" washingtonpost.com/opinions/20 #ukraine #war #wtf #geopolitics #politics #politik

The Washington Post · Trump just dealt Russia a devastating blowBy Marc A. Thiessen
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The Global Plant Council

The genetic architecture of resistance to septoria tritici blotch in French wheat cultivars

Septoria tritici blotch, caused by Zymoseptoria tritici, threatens wheat production. Researchers and breeders, studied 285 elite French wheat varieties, identifying 57 resistance QTLs and at least 11 known Stb genes. Their findings aid breeding for resistance and support the future meta-analysis.

globalplantcouncil.org/the-gen via INRAE #Agriculture #PlantScience #Plants #PlantSci #Wheat #Cereals

Image: Wheat field with trees in the background. Credit: Kai Pilger / Pixabay
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