Category: Agriculture
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Posted on March 23, 2010
Fixing Our Food: Preserve Our Farmland
442 million acres of American soil grew crops in 2002, the lowest amount of land in farming since World War II.
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Fixing Our Food: Diversify Crops Regionally
Concentrating agricultural production is becoming expensive and risky. We need a broader array of foods grown closer to home.
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Fixing Our Food: Reform Crop Subsidies
Federal agricultural programs are beginning to reward farmers for more than just yield, but there’s still more room to incentivize best practices.
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Fixing Our Food: Start a New Green Revolution
We don’t just need to grow more food. We need to grow it better.
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Fixing Our Food
Safe food. Healthy food. Enough food. Can we secure the bounty we take for granted for future generations? A team of CALS experts say that we can meet the world’s food challenges––and here are their best ideas for how to do it.
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Posted on November 4, 2009
Bangladesh: Breeding Bulls Can’t Take the Heat
Professor teams up with Bangladeshi researchers to create virility measure.
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Blight Future
Gene sequence may offer new hints for combating plant pathogen.
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A Chance Worth Taking
Dean speaks on personal opportunities, next step
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Five things everyone should know about…Beets
Beets, so much more than your grandmother’s root vegetable.
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The Evolution is On
A beetle’s newfound abilities remind us that life is always adapting to overcome our best strategies. How the eternal struggle for survival changes the way we farm.
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The New Pollinators
Researchers, farmers hope native bees will fill hole left by disapearing European cousins.
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Drop in the Bucket
Rain keeps the grass green–even when it’s dry.