Agriculture

Agriculture (literally meaning "the tillage of a field") has long been thought to be the impetus for civilization and societies as we know them today.

Because man was able to conquer the animal and plant kingdoms via agriculture, tribes were able to stay in one place and settle into communities and tribes as opposed to being "hunter-gatherer" societies that roamed the earth up until about 10,000 years ago.


Agriculture has been marked by developments and innovations that have launched it into what it is today. Farming, irrigation, crop rotation, animal transportation, plows, pesticides, fertilizers, and biotechnology have all done their part in refining and improving the way agriculture is practiced and how it benefits the human family. In recent years, ethanol, methane, and the pellet mill have all been introduced as a way to cleanly and safely recycle agriculture residue into clean, reusable energy.

But not all of the farming advances have been good. Destruction and depletion of the environment, animal cruelty in the form of intensive pig and chicken farming, and selective breeding have been the cause of heavy protesting and lobbying in Washington D.C.

Bloggers speaking about agriculture can be found at sites like agricultureresources and capitalpress.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Agriculture”

• Corn gets hammered at the opening

  
  Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Green Fields: Agriculture and Alternative Energy — Authority: 132
  Corn futures took a punch right out of the box when trading opened this morning on the Chicago Board of Trade. After an hour the December contract was down 9 cents to $3.79 per bushel. Analysts said hedge funds took profits at the end of trading Monday, knocking out what had appeared to be a promising rally near $4. ...
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• The Kel Word: Chew on This

  
  Velvetpark | Dyke Culture in Bloom — Authority: 143
  After spending two months on an organic farm and lots more time than that mulling the matter, I have come to regard food security and sustainable agriculture as two incredibly under-valued initiati
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• Doing More Good

  
  Vegan Soapbox — Authority: 483
  Martha Stewart is having a vegetarian Thanksgiving and Glenn Beck cares about animals? Whoa, what’s going on here? Jonathan Safran Foer said in an interview: “Look, someone like Glenn Beck could not have a turkey and that’s fine, but what I would so strongly prefer is that he had a week-long series about ...
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• The ultimate crop rotation + VIDEO (T. SIMEONE / Washington Post)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Interesting message sent by my good friend Tont SIMEONE :http://www.dimidia.com/—————————————Article published by The Washington Posthttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/22/AR2009112201478.html?referrer=emailarticleThe ultimate crop rotationBy Stephanie McCrummenLured ...
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• Climate & environment - Nov 24

  
  Energy Bulletin - — Authority: 622
  -Swiftboating the Climate Scientists -Countdown to Copenhagen: A change in the political climate on emissions -Deforestation emissions should be shared between producer and consumer, argues study read more
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• Some farmers’ suicides due to personal reasons: Pawar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 24 (IANS) Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar Tuesday said some cases of suicides by farmers due to personal reasons were also attributed to crop failure and other farming related reasons.“As reported by the state governments and revealed in some studies conducted earlier, the causes for suicides by ...
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• Chhattisgarh seeks higher support price for paddy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Raipur, Nov 24 (IANS) Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Tuesday asked the central government to raise the minimum support price (MSP) for paddy to Rs.1,400 per quintal from the present Rs.950 per quintal.“The MSP for paddy for the current fiscal should be increased to Rs.1,400 per quintal from the current ...
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• Termites Create Sustainable Monoculture Fungus Farming (Science Daily / Wageningen Univ.)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091120000437.htmTermites Create Sustainable Monoculture Fungus FarmingScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2009) — Food production of modern human societies is mostly based on large-scale monoculture crops, but it now appears that advanced insect societies have ...
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• Afrigourmet on Leafy Greens

  
  Timbuktu Chronicles — Authority: 496
  The site, Afrigourmet "...features both traditional recipes from all over the continent as well as well as the authors unique interpretations. Many of those recipes come from the cook book collection which you can leaf through by clicking on COOKBOOKS ..." From a Field of Greens: When I moved to ...
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• Flax (Linum) and Ethiopian mustard (Brassica carinata) Can Produce Bioethanol (Science Daily / FECYT)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091120094745.htmFlax and Yellow Flowers Can Produce BioethanolScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2009) — Surplus biomass from the production of flax shives, and generated from Brassica carinata, a yellow-flowered plant related to those which engulf fields in ...
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• Nations securing food supplies with African land

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 433
  Greenwire : Governments and investors from industrial nations are increasingly spending billions of dollars to lease tracts of farmland in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa in efforts to secure their supply of staple crops. In Africa alone, some 50 million acres — about the size of Nebraska — has been ...
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• The High Rise Urban Farms of the Future

  
  GreenBiz.com Green Business News — Authority: 649
  Moving farms off land and into skyscrapers is on the verge of becoming reality. The main hurdle isn’t technology; it’s one of engineering and funding.
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• The High Rise Urban Farms of the Future

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 537
  Moving farms off land and into skyscrapers is on the verge of becoming reality. The main hurdle isn’t technology; it’s one of engineering and funding.
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• The High Rise Urban Farms of the Future

  
  ClimateBiz.com — Authority: 521
  Moving farms off land and into skyscrapers is on the verge of becoming reality. The main hurdle isn’t technology; it’s one of engineering and funding.
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• CII summit to promote trade between India-ASEAN held in Guwahati

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  Guwahati, Nov 24(ANI): A business conference organized by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) to explore and promote trade opportunities between India and ASEAN was recently held in Guwahati. During the conference both sides discussed different aspects like banking, agriculture and tourism to boost trade. “I ...
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• Switchgrass Produces Biomass Efficiently (Science Daily)

  
  Desertification — Authority: 149
  Read at : Science Dailyhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123125201.htmSwitchgrass Produces Biomass EfficientlyScienceDaily (Nov. 24, 2009) — A USDOE and USDA study concluded that 50 million U.S. acres of cropland, idle cropland, and cropland pasture could be converted from current uses to the ...
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• Will Vertical Farming Prevent A Food Crisis?

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 134
  I chanced upon an article about growing food in buildings which piqued my interest. Its called vertical farming. The following are the illustrated conceptual framework of vertical farming.... Now this article from CBC Canada , ``Is it an elegant solution to pressing problems related to the food ...
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• Media Examines Food Summit Reaction, Malnutrition In Liberia, Yemen

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  VOA News reports on reactions from last weeks U.N. World Summit on Food Security in Rome: "The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by two thousand fifteen. But critics pointed out that world leaders made a similar promise more than ten years ago.
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• Chikankata MP disappointed with manner government handling Fertilizer Input Support Programme

  
  Zambian Chronicle — Authority: 138
  French Version German Version Russian Version Spanish Version Portuguese Version Chinese Version Arabic Version By ZamChro Correspondent UPND Chikankata member of parliament Munji Habenzu has expressed disappointment over the government’s failure ...
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• Attacking the Messenger: Big Ag’s Attempt to Misdirect Attention from Its Own Problems

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 597
  Reading agribusiness officials’ responses to undercover exposés documenting egregious acts of cruelty to farm animals can be truly mind-boggling. I’ve written about this before, and feel compelled to follow up with a couple more recent sordid examples. When faced with gruesome images of mistreatment of ...
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