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”

• The Festering Fraud behind Food Safety Reform

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 136
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• Sunday Essay - food prices and Australian primary production

  
  Personal Reflections — Authority: 129
  The release of OECD data showing that food prices in Australia have increased 41.3 per cent since the start of 2000, the fastest rate of increase of any major developed nation, created quite a stir in this country.   Spain had the next fastest rate of increase over that time, at 41.2 per cent, followed by the ...
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• Frank Lucas Favors Short Term Thinking for Oklahoma

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 477
  Oklahoma Republican Frank Lucas tries to explain why he is against any regulatory effort to reduce greenhouse gases:They go about that by increasing taxes on all forms of energy, and agriculture is a very energy-intense business, whether it is the diesel for the tractors to put the crop in the ground, the energy to ...
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• Why it’s time to rethink the bird this Thanksgiving

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
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• Tierra Miguel Foundation

  
  Wanderlust — Authority: 442
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  VFRESHERS — Authority: 157
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• Madagascar Cancels Water Deal with Saudi Arabia

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 518
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• The Choice Ahead: Entrenched Fossil Fuel Dependence or Climate Change Management

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 134
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• Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate and Energy

  
  Circle of Blue | WaterNews — Authority: 518
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• Agricultura de Precisión: tecnologías para optimizar los dones de la naturaleza

  
  AgInfo News from IAALD — Authority: 131
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• The Historic Gastronomist

  
  Gherkins & Tomatoes — Authority: 425
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• Hard Lessons from the Decade of Greed

  
  Politics — Authority: 420
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• Flashback: 7 -- 13 Nov 2008

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 597
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• Poveglia Island

  
  Sreelancer — Authority: 464
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• eat up

  
  "there is no path, paths are made by walking." ~Antonio Machado — Authority: 130
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• Technology To Modify Behavior Of Nanoparticles Could Ease Public Concerns

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 733
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• Farming the Sea

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 152
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• Turning Desert into a Garden/Food Forest

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 162
  About two kilometers from the Dead Sea and two from where Jesus was christened, in the country of Jordan, Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute and his crew created a near miracle turning desert into a lush permaculture garden. In August in this location, Lawton says that temperatures could rise above ...
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• Turning Desert into a Garden

  
  EcoWorldly — Authority: 593
  About two kilometers from the Dead Sea and two from where Jesus was christened, in the country of Jordan, Geoff Lawton of the Permaculture Research Institute and his crew created a near miracle turning desert into a lush permaculture garden. In August in this location, Lawton says that temperatures could rise above ...
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• Nothing corny about global warming

  
  SocraticGadfly — Authority: 441
  Literally, that is. Due to corn’s temperature sensitivity, global warming could severly hit US corn harvests , barring some lucky new round of genetic engineering. There is no god and I am his prophet.
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