farming

When The Agricultural Age was at its peak, farming changed the way societies and civilizations were created. It was the main reason humans went from being hunter-gatherers to organizing themselves into tribes and communities throughout the world.

When farmers became capable of producing food beyond the needs of their own families, others in their society were free to devote themselves to projects other than food acquisition. This was huge. It opened a whole range of interests and leisure activities that were heretofore unknown to man. Agriculture was a huge step forward for civilizations and societies as a whole.

Since then, The Agricultural Age has taken a bow on the world stage and largely given way to The Industrial Age; but farming still employs almost a third of the world’s workers in some form or another. The service sector just recently overtook farming as the largest employer of workers in the world.

Thomas Malthus once predicted that the Earth would not be able to support its growing population. But technologies such as the Green Revolution (pellet mills, pesticides, synthetic nitrogen, etc.) have allowed the world to produce a surplus of food.

Bloggers speaking about farming can be found at sites like tinyfarmblog and pickyourown.

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• High Tunnel Program Update (No Deadline Set!)

  
  Flying Tomato Farms — Authority: 124
  According to information from the state level sent yesterday and shared on the Dakota Rural Action list serve, there is no application deadline set for South Dakota as yet on the USDA-NRCS High Tunnel pilot project.  The deadline is anticipated to be in late January or early February. NRCS field office staff will be ...
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• Cool Green Morning: Thursday, December 31

  
  Cool Green Science: The Conservation Blog of The Nature Conservancy — Authority: 509
  Only one day left in 2009 to catch the hottest green news links. See you in 2010! Treehugger offers up nine hopeful predictions for 2010 . ( Treehugger ) Volunteers from 35 countries are on the lookout for the slender-billed curlew , last seen in 2001. ( Extinction Countdown ) Those pretty little (or ...
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• 10:10 food: How to green your eating habits | Leo Hickman

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  When it comes to doing the right thing for the planet, the thorniest dilemmas are often about what we eat. Leo Hickman tackles 10 of them Is having shopping delivered better than driving to the shops yourself? As a rule, yes. Would you rather see 30 cars drive back and forth to a supermarket, or just one van ...
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• agri biotech inbdustry

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 165
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• JR´s Little (German) Press Review

  
  Justrecently's Weblog — Authority: 128
  The European Union and the United States must do more to support those countries which suffer most from climate change and added least to it, writes Dorothea Steiner in the Green Party´s gazette Schrägstrich of December 2009. Globally, the need for combatting global warming is estimated to be 100 billion Euros from ...
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• Ellen DeGeneres, Tim Gunn named PETA’s People of the Year

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 740
  Washington, Dec 31 (ANI): Ellen DeGeneres and Tim Gunn have been named PETA’s Woman and Man of the Year.The duo received the honour because of their exceptional effort in supporting animal rights issues. “Tim Gunn and Ellen DeGeneres show us that one person really can make a difference in the world by rejecting ...
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• "Why We Should All Eat More Organic Food" from OCA

  
  Sustainable Living — Authority: 126
  From the good folks over at Organic Consumers Association ; "www.whatsorganicmovie.org The organic label has swept into supermarket shelves over the last decade, but what does it mean? Through the stories of five farmers who steward land from Harlem to the foothills of the Rockies, from upstate New York to Florida, ...
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• Farm City

  
  MAS o Menos — Authority: 128
  What would it be like to be farmer living in a ghetto? Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer by Novella Carpenter is a very entertaining book.  It tells the story of how gardening in an abandoned lot in an Oakland ghetto expanded into raising bees, chickens, rabbits and eventually pigs. This book is ...
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• Corn Still Standing in Illinois

  
  Corn Commentary — Authority: 127
  The final USDA crop progress report on this year’s harvest released last week showed that 95 percent of the nation’s corn crop was finally harvested, just a few days before Christmas. Illinois was on par with the national total, reporting five percent of the crop left in the field. I saw some of that corn ...
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• Gamtoos Dairy Farm

  
  Port Elizabeth Daily Photo — Authority: 128
  There are big dairy farming areas to both the east and the west of Port Elizabeth producing milk not just for the Port Elizabeth area, but also beyond. Some of these farms are massive, producing thousands of litres of milk every day. Most of the cows on these farms are Jersey and Friesian cows. The ones on this farm ...
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• December Eco-Tidbits from Turkey

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 601
  Blue crabs are threatened by excessive hunting, while farmers are being encouraged not to kill wolves. Photos by metaxin (left) and Todd Ryburn via Flickr. Expectations from this months United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen were dashed in Read the full story on TreeHugger
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• Detroit’s urban farming future, according to John Hantz

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 594
  If there’s one major bright spot to all the talk about Detroit’s many vacant and abandoned lots these days, it’s the focus on the city’s brave new urban farming future. Fortune’s David Whitford takes us there in an in-depth story posted on Time Inc.’s Assignment Detroit page earlier this afternoon. ...
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• We Techies Are Wining Pussies – or just lucky?

  
  Morten Lund - It's all about luck — Authority: 103
  From M: "I just spent 3 days with some pretty serious people and learned a ton. I love the internet, fuck being a farmer is hard and the rest is bullshit =) can you imagine waiting 3 years to discover if your strategy was the right one?" An email this morning from my friend Matias – made me feel stupid. During ...
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• Organic Milk Linked to Lower Rates of Allergies, Asthma and Eczema

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 165
  Organic Milk Linked to Lower Rates of Allergies, Asthma and Eczema Sunday, December 27, 2009 by: David Gutierrez, staff writer (NaturalNews) Young children who consume exclusively organic dairy products are significantly less likely to develop allergies, asthma or eczema by the age of two, according to a study ...
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• Going back to the land

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 165
  Going back to the land Somali Bantu refugees learn organic farming business By Janet Lavelle, UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER Sunday, December 27, 2009 at 12:56 a.m. Howard Lipin / Union-Tribune Hawa Mhije, a Somali refugee, worked last week in a field at Tierra Miguel farm in Pauma Valley, where she is part of a ...
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• Presenting the idea of protecting cow to college youth

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 165
  Presenting the idea of protecting cow to college youth By Prof GS Narayana Murty The cow and organic farming are inseparable entities in India. Now the whole world is turning to organic foods. There are two million (twenty lakh) organic farmers in US alone. The concept is catching up fast all over the globe, more so ...
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• Earning good cash from organic fish feed

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 165
  Earning good cash from organic fish feed By Yolanda Sotelo Inquirer Northern Luzon First Posted 17:27:00 12/26/2009 Filed Under: Economy and Business and Finance, Entrepreneurship BINMALEY, Pangasinan – The increasing cost of fertilizer and commercial feeds has become a boon to the environment, with fishpond ...
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• USA - Organic food bubble about to burst 26 Dec 2009

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 165
  USA - Organic food bubble about to burst 26 Dec 2009 Meat and poultry companies still hoping to cash in on the growing market for organic products may want to think again. New research from the Connecticut-based TABS Group suggests the market is, if not static, then not growing in terms of numbers of shoppers. "In ...
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• MP seeks Central help to open agriculture varsity

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 165
  MP seeks Central help to open agriculture varsity Shashikant Trivedi / New Delhi/ Bhopal December 26, 2009, 0:13 IST To make Madhya Pradesh an “organic” state in terms of agriculture, the state government has sought support from the Centre on agriculture research. State agriculture minister Ramkrishna Kusmaria ...
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• Hydroponics Gardening for Organic Vegetables – Introduction

  
  AgricultureInformation.com — Authority: 165
  Hydroponics Gardening for Organic Vegetables – Introduction December 25th, 2009 | Author: admin Hydroponics gardening or growing plants in the growing media other than soil has been known to humans since ancient times. It is known that during the times of King Solomon, people practiced soil-less gardening, which ...
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