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Virtual Gold-Farming a $500,000 Industry »
Posted by: chris2930 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Virtual gold-farming has become a $500,000 industry employing over 400,000 workers, according to new research by self confessed gamer Professor Richard Heeks.
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U.S. farmers see how their employees live back in Mexico »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 2 weeks ago in News
As a backlash against immigrants grows, one group aims to build understanding by sending Midwestern farmers south of the border for 'cultural immersion.'
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Who Will Run America? »
Posted by: PinkyPie 3 weeks, 1 day ago in News
"That has to be a joke -- or a misunderstanding," said George Mason University economist Walter Williams on my recent TV special, " John Stossel's Politically ...
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Just Another Reason: Organic Farming Uses Less Water »
Posted by: DiffeeOnline 2 weeks, 5 days ago in Science & Technology
Large quantities of water are used for farming around the world, and some environmentalists argue this has contributed to the global water crisis. According to ...
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For the nation's migrant farmworkers, high temps creating a "Black Summer" »
Posted by: Neophile 3 months, 3 weeks ago in News
It's being called the "Black Summer" in the San Joaquin Valley of California these days. Why? Because last Thursday yet another farm worker died ...
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Soil erosion threatens land of 100m Chinese »
Posted by: altnrg 1 week, 3 days ago in Science & Technology
Almost 100 million people in south-west China will lose the land they live on within 35 years if soil erosion continues at its current rate ...
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Monsanto Beets Down Opposition »
Posted by: populist 1 week, 1 day ago in Science & Technology
The sugar beets growing in farmer Tim Winn’s fields do not look menacing. But other farmers in Oregon’s fertile Willamette Valley fear the ...
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The Locavore's Dilemma: Local Food »
Posted by: populist 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
I wholeheartedly agree that there are a lot of complex environmental problems out there, and food policy in the developed world is a complex mess ...
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U.S. Agricultural Programs: Who Pays? »
Posted by: populist 2 weeks, 5 days ago in Business & Finance
Agricultural subsidies transfer wealth from taxpayers, and in some cases consumers, to farmers, suppliers of farm inputs—including machinery, fertilizer, seed, and pesticides—and other ...
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Human Waste Used by 200 Million Farmers, Study Says »
Posted by: Fedquip 3 months, 1 week ago in Science & Technology
While the practice carries serious health risks for many, those dangers are eclipsed by the social and economic gains for poor urban farmers and consumers ...
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Farmers See 'Mark of the Beast' in RFID Livestock Tags »
Posted by: Wil 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
A group of community farmers, some of them Amish, are challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are a ...
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Adaptation of international farm management practices by small-scale farmers in Africa »
Posted by: gtangerine 3 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
The objective of using international farm management practices is to enable farmers to adopt new and profitable methods of production. The most severe constraint which ...
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Urban Farmer Sells Affordable Fruits and Veggies, Envisions Skyscraper Farms »
Posted by: jeremytoday 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Science & Technology
When most people think of farms, they think flat, endless fields of corn or wheat in the heartland of the American Midwest.
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Status of freshwater prawn farming »
Posted by: shomtham 1 month ago in Science & Technology
Giant River Prawns (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) have been farmed using traditional methods in south-east Asia for ages. Industrial-scale rearing processes developed during the 1970s in Hawaii ...
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Farm work 'carries more inherent risk than other jobs' »
Posted by: SafetyGravity 3 months, 1 week ago in News
Employees who work on farms are exposed to more inherent risks than people in other occupations, it has been claimed.
