Category Archives: agriculture

the practice of cultivating the land to grow food; archaeologists use the advent of agriculture to mark the beginning of civilization.

Getting accustom to moderate to exceptional drought

2012-9-14 – 2:58 pm

For comparison, “just 21.47 percent of the lower 48 states was drought free, which is down from 56.53 percent at the same time in 2011.”

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Cutting Food Stamps While Giving Billions to Sugar Industry

2012-6-25 – 6:05 am

The reality in America is that Big Money runs the legislative process.

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Ecological (And Not Republican or Exxon Mobil) Sensitivity

2011-12-28 – 7:09 pm

Forced migrations are one thing, invasions by force, another

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Heat Waves Destroy Crop Harvests

2011-7-7 – 10:01 am

“Ironically, the two countries that are planning to build most of the new coal-fired power plants, China and India, are precisely the ones whose food security is most massively threatened by the carbon emitted from burning coal.”

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The Evil Agri-Oil Axis

2011-5-26 – 5:43 pm

Since the 1960s increased use of nitrogen fertilizers has doubled the number of lifeless pockets every decade.

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World Food Prices On The Rise

2011-1-20 – 10:46 am

Long-term food trends are worrisome, especially for soybeans. In 1995 China produced the same amount of soybeans it consumed, but since then production has stayed the same and consumption has jumped fivefold.

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The Susquehanna and Chemung River Basins

2010-12-30 – 4:28 pm

The Chesapeake Bay has been improving, yet it still is at risk. Much pollution comes from agricultural sources.

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Southern farmers contend with abnormally dry weather

2010-12-15 – 2:34 pm

Record-setting summer heat scorched peanut fields, stressed cotton plants and stunted citrus fruit.

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That Certainly is Enough

2010-12-10 – 2:02 pm

How about some brains for the Science Challenged?

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A Farmer in the Times

2010-11-28 – 11:46 am

A Farmer in the Times. Hi-ho, the Dust Bowl, a Farmer in the Times

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