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President Obama's Green Revolution: Will It Save 1.8 Billion Gallons of Oil Imports? »
Posted by: WikiMap 5 months, 2 weeks ago in News
The fight for the conservation of natural resources is as old as the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. However the push for conservation and more environmentally ...
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Time to legalize Hemp farming in the United States »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Our economy is crashing and an incredibly lucrative cash crop is being denied to our farmers for political reasons. Hemp was grown in the U ...
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Homegrown Revolution - Radical Change Taking Root »
Posted by: ameliog 3 months ago in Health & Fitness
Grow your own food! Pasadena, California family turned their lawn into an urban farm. A revolutionary idea. Video from Jules Dervaes, founder of "Path to ...
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Independent studies refute GMO safety claims »
Posted by: jovial 7 months ago in Health & Fitness
Serious concern about Bt-brinjal is justified given that the same marker gene used in Bt-cotton, promoted by the same company, is used in the modified ...
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Amazing Rice Paddy Art in Japan »
Posted by: ZagatBuzz 4 months ago in Arts & Entertainment
As summer progresses, crops of rice paddy art are beginning to emerge in Japan. The crop art, created by strategically arranging and growing different colors ...
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10 Maya Foods That Changed The World's Eating Habits »
Posted by: ZagatBuzz 2 months, 1 week ago in News
Lost among the laurels heaped upon the Maya, is credit for their agricultural wizardry. When the conquering Spanish started carrying Maya food staples back to ...
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The Naked Truth on Nude Farming »
Posted by: Progressive 4 months ago in Business & Finance
The motto of Rising Sun Farm in Wisconsin is "Unconventional Farming"--the naked pleasures of which Judd Spicer experiences firsthand and recounts for the Heavy ...
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Farming Strides Toward Sustainability »
Posted by: altnrg 9 months, 4 weeks ago in Science & Technology
The production of four major crops now requires significantly less land, water, and energy per bushel or bale than it did 20 years ago, marking ...
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Retailers Turn To Co-op Movement for Better Supply Chain Management »
Posted by: barucci 5 months, 1 week ago in Business & Finance
Far from the existing corporate or contract farming, co-operative movement is becoming a revolution. Thanks to the retail boom, retailers are giving a push to ...
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What was 1st: food storage or farming? Storage »
Posted by: smithichie 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology
WASHINGTON - People were storing grain long before they learned to domesticate crops, a new study indicates. A structure used as a food granary discovered in ...
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Pain-Free Animals Could Take Suffering Out Of Farming »
Posted by: SeanRasmussen 2 months ago in Science & Technology
WITH "hormone-free", "cage-free" and "antibiotic-free" becoming common labels on our supermarket shelves, might "pain-free" be the next sticker slapped onto a rump roast?
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ndependent Farmers Feel Squeezed By Milk Cartel »
Posted by: MyWayOnNow 2 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
The price of raw milk paid to farmers has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years. Dairy farms are going under across the country ...
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Aquaculture's Rise Brings Both Optimism, Concern »
Posted by: ZagatBuzz 1 month, 2 weeks ago in News
By the end of this year, the world is projected to reach an unheralded but historic milestone: Half of the fish and shellfish we consume ...
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Anvil Knitwear Unveils New Recycled Eco Tee »
Posted by: greenmeany 2 months, 1 week ago in Health & Fitness
Anvil Knitwear today launched a new eco t-shirt made from recycled PET plastic bottles and transitional cotton, which has been grown on farms that are ...
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H.R. 875: Agricultural Giants Try To Kill Organic Farming »
Posted by: Revelation1412 7 months ago in Political News
Big agriculture has declared war on organic farming in the United States, and the centerpiece of that war is H.R. 875. This horrific bill ...
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