I had said something on a previous thread about how in New England a lot of the farmland from the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries has been abandoned as far
as agriculture goes.
Not exact matches
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service announced it is
going forward with proposing its New Swine Slaughter Inspection System (NSIS), formerly referred to
as Hog HIMP.
When Morison
went around the institutional market asking fundies what they thought of
agriculture as an investment class, he received insightful responses which shaped the Blue Sky strategy.
• 250 million people will be forced to leave their homes due to extreme weather disasters • 30 million people will
go hungry
as agriculture suffers • 1 - 3 billion people will suffer acute water shortages
Peter Laufer: Yes, except in the environment that we have and the type capitalism we practice the regulatory agency in question which is the USDA, the United States Department of
Agriculture; the National Organic Program, the NOP, is serving business at least
as much
as it's servicing the rest of us and maybe more and it's the position of the USDA that if companies like Trader Joe's or others decide that the origin of their products is a proprietary business tool, then they are successfully able to hide behind that claim and not tell you where something you're
going to buy and eat came from.
In addition to the full schedule of sessions on farm production, marketing, business, and finance, conference -
goers will have multiple opportunities to learn from nationally - known leaders on topics encompassing current political, ethical, and social issues, such
as fixing school food, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), and the fast - growing CSA (Community Supported
Agriculture) movement.
And let's not even
go into the question of whether it is wise,
as was suggested by the Department of
Agriculture, that school lunches require at least half of the breads served each week be from whole grains.
A few hours later, SNA put out a press release praising the appropriators but calling on the
Agriculture Department to
go further by not implementing any additional reductions in salt, not requiring 100 percent whole - wheat items, getting rid of the requirement for fruit and vegetable servings at every meal, and allowing any food item permitted to be served
as part of a reimbursable meal to be sold at any time in vending machines.
Speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region about his plans for Ghana's
agriculture in a future Akufo - Addo government, the three - time flag bearer of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) said: «
As far as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village one dam.&raqu
As far
as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village one dam.&raqu
as this part of our world is concerned, I want to
go further and talk about one village one dam.»
Oba Ogunwusi who described
agriculture as the only eternal and everlasting bailout to Nigeria's economy, said the time has come for every Nigerian especially the youths to
go back to farms.
More and more young people are
going into
agriculture, being able, for the first time, to see farming
as a viable endeavour.
He
went on to be a special adviser to Douglas Hogg, the Minister of
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, and worked at 10 Downing Street
as well
as for Prime Minister John Major's campaign team in the party's unsuccessful 1997 general election campaign, before becoming a speechwriter and political secretary to Major's successor
as party leader, William Hague.
Speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region about his plans for Ghana's
agriculture, Akufo - Addo said: «
As far as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village, one dam.&raqu
As far
as this part of our world is concerned, I want to go further and talk about one village, one dam.&raqu
as this part of our world is concerned, I want to
go further and talk about one village, one dam.»
He noted that the existing relationship and partnership between the state and the IITA would help and
go a long way in resuscitating the lost glory of
agriculture and
as well boost her Internally Generated Revenue.
Professor Alao said
as President Muhammadu Buhari - led administration
goes the whole hog to salvage the economy from the brink of collapse, much ought to be done by the present government in making
agriculture attractive to Nigerians, saying with effective and productive
agriculture practices alone, the nation's economy can be sufficiently stimulated.
This industrialisation, he indicated, would
go hand - in - hand with improving the productivity of
agriculture, spurred on by the production and marketing of additional cash crops such
as cotton, coffee, oil palm, cashew and maize, which will boost export earnings for the country.
I'm
going to ask the Minister of Food and
Agriculture to donate an agricultural tractor to your school,» the president announced,
as loud cheers and applause from the crowd, punctuated with the blowing of vuvuzelas, trailed the assurance.
«
As far as he is concerned, «it is the structure of the district economy that will determine what should be done there: maybe that structure is going to lead to more emphasis on agriculture, maybe that structure is going to lead on construction, maybe that structure is going to lead on services, depending on the skills set availabl
As far
as he is concerned, «it is the structure of the district economy that will determine what should be done there: maybe that structure is going to lead to more emphasis on agriculture, maybe that structure is going to lead on construction, maybe that structure is going to lead on services, depending on the skills set availabl
as he is concerned, «it is the structure of the district economy that will determine what should be done there: maybe that structure is
going to lead to more emphasis on
agriculture, maybe that structure is
going to lead on construction, maybe that structure is
going to lead on services, depending on the skills set available.
«
As a Member of Parliament for Tamale central under the leadership of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo I believe that Tamale is
going to see an upgrade and a transformation that has never happened in the history of Tamale, ever and one thing that is
going to make this a reality is the attention that is
going to be paid to
agriculture.»
«Unlike before, when only the aged were found
going into
agriculture ventures, things have changed now
as the youth are now taking interest in the sector.
He mentioned the resuscitation of fertiliser plants
as yet another achievement of the Buhari administration, saying that the development had caused the prices of fertiliser to drop and made young people to
go into
agriculture.
Some researchers expect that
as climate change pushes
agriculture and human populations farther north, «people are
going to come more in contact with these mostly pristine landscapes» and disturb them in ways that could increase fire risk, Page says.
The progressivist party line sometimes even
goes so far
as to credit
agriculture with the remarkable flowering of art that has taken place over the past few thousand years.
For this reason, it is essential to maintain
as much diversity within mycorrhizal fungi
as possible in the
agriculture sector
going forward.
New genetic and chemical analyses of 4600 - year - old burials in Germany suggests that family togetherness has deep roots,
going back at least
as far the beginnings of
agriculture in Europe.
One former fellow is now working for the U.S. Department of
Agriculture as a postdoctoral researcher, four others have
gone on to win nationally competitive postdoctoral positions, and one is now a K - State faculty member.
Just imagine what the comparison would be like without all those government subsidies, otherwise known
as your tax dollars, that
go to hide the externalities in the true cost of animal
agriculture.
Children who buy lunch in public schools are now being served up healthier options, including more fruits and vegetables,
as new U.S. Department of
Agriculture's National School Lunch Program standards
go into effect this year.
For this recipe,
as usual, I
went back to my roots... Central Florida
agriculture and the classics.
As long as agriculture markets don't fall off a cliff, SOP supply remains reasonable, and winter weather normalizes over the coming years, we believe CMP can grow its earnings by at least 5 - 10 % per year going forwar
As long
as agriculture markets don't fall off a cliff, SOP supply remains reasonable, and winter weather normalizes over the coming years, we believe CMP can grow its earnings by at least 5 - 10 % per year going forwar
as agriculture markets don't fall off a cliff, SOP supply remains reasonable, and winter weather normalizes over the coming years, we believe CMP can grow its earnings by at least 5 - 10 % per year
going forward.
When traveling internationally, be sure to check the laws of the country you are
going to
as well
as the current requirements from the United States Department of
Agriculture for re-entry into the United States.
Mr. Peterson said the key differences between the amendment and the new Senate Bill 331 are added enforcement by the Department of
Agriculture and tracking of puppies
as they
go through the process in an attempt to address concerns some pet brokers were selling dogs to stores that had actually been obtained from puppy mills.
I also grew up in a poor valley region in California where we have a lot
agriculture and huge Hmong immigrant population so I
went to school with a lot of Hmong people (little known by Americans -
as there are mostly Chinese, Thai, Korean people in the bigger cities) and got to
go to a few food / culture festivals and see their beautiful embroidery -
Savoury has been active in Australian
agriculture for some time, although his influence has waned over recent years
as many of his followers
went broke.
Having
gone to high school and college in Sacramento, right next to Davis CA, I know that school has always been a big,
as in corporate, school in some ways, so even their sustainable study might be a little blind to or at least sympathetic to big
agriculture.
But for those of us who do eat meat, and who believe that well - treated animals in an integrated farming system make at least
as much sense
as vegan organic
agriculture, learning more about what
goes into animal raising, killing, and butchery is a step toward a more honest and ethical approach to eating meat.
«But
as I commented at scienceprogress, the way I see the ledger, the religious Right gets a handful of anti-science points for views on evolution (and related rationalizations about the age of the earth, etc.), and for some dismissal of climate change theory, but the Left gets many more anti-science points for exaggerating the health and ecological risks of POPs; DDT; GMOs; plastics and plasticizers; pesticide residues; conventional
agriculture; low - dose EM radiation; high - tension powerlines; climate change; population growth; resource depletion; chemical sweeteners; species extinction rates; biodiversity decline; and I'm sure the list could
go on.
Droughts are impacting
agriculture, the main source of income for people in my village, and people are
going hungry
as a result.
It could
go further to restrict emissions from existing landfills and coal mines,
as well
as look into ways to reduce emissions from
agriculture (yes, that means tackling cow burps).
If we're primarily warming the planet through, say,
agriculture,
as William F. Ruddiman believes, or the urban heat effect,
as Roger Pielke, Sr., believes, then cutting carbon emissions isn't
going to do much to stop warming.
The American food authors Michael Pollan and Julie Guthman, for example, argue that
as organic
agriculture has scaled up and
gone mainstream it has lost its commitment to building an alternative system for providing food, instead «replicating what it set out to oppose.»
• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of grains and other crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such
as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal
agriculture; and the list
goes on.
Though Indonesia and Malaysia seem hell bent on chopping down their rainforests and replacing them with palm oil plantations, a new study in the journal Conservation Letters shows that selling carbon credits from the intact forests could be just
as profitable
as converting them to
agriculture, and
go a long way towards preserving biodiversity (not to mention stopping the orangutan from
going extinct): In the article, report lead author Oscar Venter of the University of Queensland says that oil palm plantations currently threaten some 3.3 million hectares of forest in Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of the island or Borneo).
Indeed Tim if you want to
go to catchment modification theories — well tree clearing for
agriculture and grazing ought be giving us more runoff in one respect but perhaps changes in land surface feedbacks from land development may have also made a contribution to a warmer drier climate
as this preliminary research shows.
Allen
goes on to list various hard facts about pesticide, fertilizer and antibiotic overuse in industrial
agriculture (all the more unsettling
as this writer walked around bright grocery displays, recalling these facts).
Industrial
Agriculture's Negative Effects The report didn't go into wider - ranging effects of the industrial agriculture dominant in the US, such as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous
Agriculture's Negative Effects The report didn't
go into wider - ranging effects of the industrial
agriculture dominant in the US, such as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous
agriculture dominant in the US, such
as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial
agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous
agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous estimates.
[That's] Probably what two Oregon
Agriculture Department officials are feeling like
as the 2nd discrimination suit in which they were the key actors
went against the state, this time a loss of $ 425,000...
The process of reaching agreements with the Indigenous peoples in Canada about the surrender of lands to make way for mining,
agriculture etc, and the concomitant reservation of lands for Indigenous groups, were effected by agreements and in particular by treaties, including a series of treaties known
as the «numbered treaties»
going through to Treaty No. 11 in 1921.