Quick Take — Tuscany: in less than 20 years it has lost half of its durum wheat cultivated areas

from 96,000 hectares in 2006 to 43,000 in 2024… “The crisis in cereals can be explained simply as follows: costs exceed revenues,’ says the president of Coldiretti Toscana, Letizia Cesani. ‘Today, with the volatility of prices, farms cannot even break even. In a country where a plate of pasta is never missing from the table, it would be natural to think that this is an important crop, but it is not so. In 2023, imports of Canadian wheat, for which glyphosate is used in the pre-harvest phase – glyphosate is a carcinogenic herbicide – increased by 68%’… On this topic read here

According to Google, Bernardo Caprotti has no children. And the Corriere della sera does not help

For Google, My mother Giorgina Venosta still does not exist and Wikipedia has deleted the page on Guido Venosta, creator of the Italian Association for Cancer Research. The picture is completed by the Corriere della Sera – national edition – which, for example, after deleting me in 2020, is one of the few Italian newspapers not to have reviewed my book, Le Ossa dei Caprotti