Agriculture

Growing food — crops, livestock, and the farming that feeds billions.

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Almonds, peaches and apricots are close cousins - and some kernels carry cyanide

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Apples don't grow true from seed — every variety is a graft of one original tree

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Carrots were purple, yellow and white long before they were orange

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Vanilla is the second-priciest spice because every flower is pollinated by hand

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Almost every banana you eat is a clone of the same plant

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Corn was bred from a scraggly grass with a handful of hard kernels

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Farming began about 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent

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Food & Drink Agriculture

One agronomist's wheat is credited with saving a billion lives

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Food & Drink Agriculture

Three out of four leading food crops depend on pollinators

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