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Things You May Not Know About Farm Income Deductions

If you are in the business of farming, there are a number of tax issues that you should consider before filing your federal tax return. The IRS has compiled a list of 10 things that farmers may want to know before filing their federal tax return. Crop Insurance Proceeds You must include in income any [...]
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Lessons Learned From Previous Recessions

The recession beginning in December 2007 led to the largest overall job losses and increases in unemployment rates since the early 1980s. Evidence from the four recessions since 1980 provides a possible road map of the pattern of recovery from the most recent recession. The intensity, duration, and depth of past recessions varied widely across [...]
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Virtuous Circles

If you remove the harvests from a farm, year after year and decade after decade, the soil will degenerate to the point that your harvest is nonexistent. The fruits must return to the soil, else you will create a desert. This point is nicely explained in the article below. From the Soil and Back
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Drugs Winning War on Drugs

Michigan legislators see sense. Perhaps they will begin locking up bankers instead. After all, it is the biggest cash crop in the USA. High Times in Michigan
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Low Impact Gardening And Farming

Notes on How to Be a Low Impact Fitness Farmer and Singing Gardner One of the biggest man-made problems is the use of land for farming. The clearing of land for farms is contributing to global warming in such a way as to compound the disaster in an exponential way — as more land is [...]
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What is Aquaculture?

NOAA — Aquaculture – often referred to as fish farming or shellfish farming – is the art, science, and business of cultivating aquatic animals in fresh or marine waters for consumption and to supplement commercial and recreational fisheries. About 70 percent of the aquaculture in the U.S. is fresh water farming of catfish and trout. [...]
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Chicago Board of Trade Options and Futures

WHEAT – CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE Code-001602 OPTION AND FUTURES COMBINED POSITIONS AS OF 01/06/09 | ————————————————————–| NONREPORTABLE NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS ————————–|—————–|—————–|—————– Long | Short |Spreads | Long | Short | Long | Short | Long | Short ——————————————————————————– (CONTRACTS OF 5,000 BUSHELS) OPEN INTEREST: 345,164 COMMITMENTS 61,797 49,139 97,886 157,866 [...]
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Commodity Forecast World Supply and Demand

The World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report provides USDA’s comprehensive forecasts of supply and demand for major U.S. and global crops and U.S. livestock. The report gathers information from a number of statistical reports published by USDA and other government agencies, and provides a framework for additional USDA reports. Latest WASDE Report The [...]
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Global warming could starve half the world by century-end

Sydney, Jan 12 : Global warming will severely damage crop output in tropical regions and deprive half the world of food by the century-end, according to a study. The population of the equatorial belt will bear the brunt of unprecedented shortages, home to the poorest on earth. Currently three billion people live in the tropics [...]
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