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“sometimes in life you’ve got to risk it for a chocolate biscuit…… and I love chocolate biscuits” What a feat, what an achievement

Thanks to 40 years of advice to reduce red meat consumption, more than 25% of kids and teens in the UK are now iron deficient. Well done Legacy Dietitians! Bravo Public Health experts! Another achievement to add to the list of obesity, overweight and diabetes driven by dietary advice that's based on weak/no science! Replacing dietitians with AI could turn out to be an improvement.

New Zealand and USA, closely followed by EU, Brazil and India.

While Jared Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law, appears to be on the verge of raising $5 billion for his private equity firm from the Gulf states that are now desperate to buy influence with Trump, the families of fallen U.S. soldiers have to resort to GoFundMe donations.

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once. The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time. Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight. The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate. What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field. Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal. We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain. The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours. This bird does 11 days. Without a runway.

Cocoa prices are now ONE QUARTER of their recent peak. Has anyone seen a bar of chocolate fall in price by even 1p?? @sainsburys what is going on?

Given the winter Olympics is on at the moment, it's time to relive the legendary time that Stephen Bradbury won Australia's first ever winter gold medal. His plan was simple, stay at the back and hope everyone else comes-a-gutsa. Being the last man standing is now known as "doing a Bradbury" in Australia.

In case you’re late to my favorite Olympic performance enhancing scandal, here are the details of penis inflate-gate.

Autonomous tractor from Netherlands! 🇳🇱 This is a fully autonomous tractor from Dutch company AgXeed, designed to work on fields without any human supervision. It's powered by a diesel engine that drives a generator, which then powers electric motors driving the tracks. The fuel tank allows for 24 hours of continuous operation. (nice!) The rear hitch has an 8-ton lift capacity, the front has 3 tons. It's equipped with electric PTO, hydraulic pump, and all the connections you'd find on a traditional tractor, meaning you can attach standard farm implements. Safety and navigation are handled by a LiDAR sensor on top, ultrasonic and radar sensors, and contact-sensitive bumpers. RTK GNSS receiver provides positioning accuracy down to 2.5 cm, with a module for bidirectional data transmission and RTK correction. Love seeing that so many companies are trying to make farmer's life easier! 🚜 ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news → ziegler.substack.com

Please take a moment to watch this. It’s short but gives you a snapshot into what’s happening inside Iran right now, as world leaders struggle to know how to respond. So far it’s been mostly silence and inertia. #IranMassacre Full statement here youtube.com/watch?v=TpeFLm…

I didn’t realise the slip at the Mount was this bad. I wonder if they will ever open it up again

US exports down 13B but globally Canada is exporting 18B more as a result. Canada is winning the trade war but Twitter has been ripping me apart for the last 2 days calling me every name in the book. 😂 I spread facts over feelings. Keep following along - Canada is 🚀🚀

Germany’s chancellor just said the quiet part out loud: phasing out nuclear was a serious strategic mistake. Reliable, low-carbon power was replaced w/ higher costs, emissions & energy insecurity. This lesson should not be ignored. Energy systems run on physics, not politics.

September milk production highlights the remarkable ability of farmers across Europe to produce large volumes of milk. This surge has driven a rapid decline in European dairy commodity prices through October and into November. Lower milk prices are now expected... highgrounddairy.com

Results from our first autonomous nitrogen x seeding density trial at Cambria, IA. This is evidence we can grow corn with less nitrogen with proper management (and help from weather), even in south-central Iowa.

The European Parliament has voted to dramatically wind back the bloc’s ESG rules following intense US pressure. The development means that >90% of companies originally in scope of ESG reporting requirements will no longer need to comply. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Farmers have added 235,000 milking cows and increased production by more than four percent year-over-year. “Because of the value of the black calf, of the beef on dairy, you’ve seen folks go from perhaps on average three lactations for milking cows and now four lactations,” he says. “If you do that across the country, what you’ve effectively done is increased the milking herd by 25 percent.” The September data was delayed because of the partial shutdown of the U.S. government and was released on Monday. Loux says growth has also been planned alongside added processing capacity. “Kansas and Texas, and Idaho and Western New York and South Dakota—basically all across the country, we were adding some new processing here in the last few years,” he says. “A lot of it, very big plants.” The USDA says milk production in 24 major dairy states totaled 18.3 billion pounds in September, with production per cow up 30 pounds from last year. brownfieldagnews.com/news/u-s-milk-…

The $18.2B of 🇳🇿 goods exports in the September quarter was up 15% on a year ago. Exports of dairy products, gold, 🥝 and 🍎 have all had bumper years.

Annual 🇳🇿 milksolids production has reached an all-time high - up 2.5% in the year to September. Each of the past five months set new monthly records. A great effort by Kiwi 🐄 farmers.

🇫🇴 WE ARE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS NOW PEOPLE! THE FAROE ISLANDS HAVE BEATEN CZECHIA 2-1! The Faroe Islands have won FOUR games in a World Cup qualifying campaign! The Faroe Islands have beaten a country ranked 97 places above them in the world rankings! The Faroe Islands have won 3 competitive games in a row! The Faroe Islands has a population less than many small UK towns! From 2009 to 2014 in 35 games the Faroe Islands won TWO games. Which includes a loss to Thailand’s U21s. The development of Football, the dedication to supply the locals with infrastructure and access has brought us to a whole new level of quality and competitiveness that is now showing at both club and International level! This may be the most historic week in the countries sporting history. Not handball, not rowing but FOOTBALL. Outnumbered, out funded, the ultimate underdogs of European football are starting to shine 🇫🇴🇫🇴🇫🇴🇫🇴

Beware of the long-term outlooks: McKinsey has just released its “materials” (commodities) outlook. Last year, it projected coal demand by 2035 **down** 40%. Now, it projects coal demand by 2035 **up** 1%. How it started … … How’s going