After three years of dead ends and cheeky developer comments, Diablo 4 players have finally found the cow level, but the mystery isn’t solved yet

Click, clack, moo: cows that type

When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want

Ruth Watson: Inside the new grassroots movement that wants your support

THE fields near my home are bursting with life. Lambs are big enough to rampage through their flocks in headlong, head-butting gangs. Highland cows…

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Reinventing the wheel: milk, microbes, and the fight for real cheese

"Reinventing the Wheel is equal parts popular science, history, and muckraking. Over the past hundred and fifty years, dairy farming and cheesemaking have been transformed, and this book explores what has been lost along the way. Today, using cutting-edge technologies like high-throughput DNA sequencing, scientists are beginning to understand the techniques of our great-grandparents. The authors describe how geneticists are helping conservationists rescue rare dairy cow breeds on the brink of extinction, microbiologists are teaching cheesemakers to nurture the naturally occurring microbes in their raw milk rather than destroying them, and communities of cheesemakers are producing "real" cheeses that reunite farming and flavor, rewarding diversity and sustainability at every level."--Provided by publisher.

Crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: a review

AbstractParadoxically, the number of crop–livestock farms is declining across Europe, despite the fact that crop-livestock farms are theoretically optimal to improve the sustainability of agriculture. To solve this issue, crop–livestock integration may be organized beyond the farm level. For instance, local groups of farmers can negotiate land-use allocation patterns and exchange materials such as manure, grain, and straw. Development of such a collective agricultural system raises questions, rarely documented in the literature, about how to integrate crops and livestock among farms, and the consequences, impacts, and conditions of integrating them. Here, we review the different forms of crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level, their potential benefits, and the features of decision support systems (DSS) needed for the integration process. We identify three forms of crop–livestock integration beyond the farm level: local coexistence, complementarity, and synergy, each with increasingly stronger temporal, spatial, and organizational coordination among farms. We claim that the forms of integration implemented define the nature, area, and spatial configuration of crops, grasslands, and animals in farms and landscapes. In turn, these configurations influence the provision of ecosystem services. For instance, we show that the synergy form of integration promotes soil fertility, erosion control, and field-level biological regulation services through organizational coordination among farmers and spatiotemporal integration between crops, grasslands, and animals. We found that social benefits of the synergy form of integration include collective empowerment of farmers. We claim that design of the complementarity and synergy forms of crop–livestock integration can best be supported by collective participatory workshops involving farmers, agricultural consultants, and researchers. In these workshops, spatialized simulation modeling of crop–livestock integration among farms is the basis for achieving the upscaling process involved in integrating beyond the farm level. Facilitators of these workshops have to pay attention to the consequences on governance and equity issues within farmers groups.

BIG MEAT MAIL 💌🍋 | Substack

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Grave Seasons is my most anticipated murder mystery-farming sim of the summer | RPG Site

A cozy horror farming-dating sim…What could go wrong?

Anthropic’s Mythos 5 is back

Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model, the subject of weekslong negotiations with the Trump administration, is back in action. No word yet on Fable 5.

WWOOF | World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms

A world filled with nature, fresh air, good food, hands-on farming, and community.

Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech

Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing.

Tour 'Homegrown' Star Jamila Norman's Urban Atlanta Farm

Patchwork City Farms on 1.2 acres in Atlanta is the setting for the Magnolia Network series Homegrown and part of "Farmer J" Jamila Norman's growing empire.

.plan-26-17: Unwedging kernels, dogfood deployments, and managing beef leakage

Welcoming Akshay to Cambridge, TESSERA AWS sync done, oi now self-hosts this site, and a new 4C forest leakage preprint appears.

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Orca Network’s Whale Sighting and Education Project encourages observation of not just orcas, but all cetaceans that call the Salish Sea home. Awareness of our amazing wild neighbors helps foster stewardship and inspire action to protect critical habitat – while collated sightings data provides invaluable and ongoing insight.

AI #175: The Fable Continues

Fable’s back.

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Discovering the hidden stories of how the world really works — by Project Brazen.