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Tag Archives: farming
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
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
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. [...]
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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Things You May Not Know About Farm Income Deductions