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    Polyface Farm is successful due to its complex system. At first the farm was a wreck. Then the farm started to thrive. Pollen states in his essay 'The Animals: Practicing Complexity ', "but polyface is proof that people can sometimes do more for the health of a place by cultivating it rather than leaving it alone"(373). Organic farming will reach wonders and sooner or later, other farmers will be taking on the Polyface Farm system. There are many problems that this model can take on. Its a self sufficient business that involves everyone and thing. The system of the farm is based on the circle of life in a way. Not one animal benefits from the action of the other, they all benefit. The chicken is the most talked about. Pollen states," The chief reason polyface farm is completely self- sufficient in nitrogen is that chicken defecating copiously pays a visit to virtually every square foot of it at several…

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    Polyface Farm, a local farm owned by Joel Salatin, is a magic place that is different from industrial farms. It is a farm based on grass, different kinds of grass. First, I want to discuss Polyface Farm and ecology. It is definitely an organic and ecological friendly farm which is home to a wide range of corps and animals, such as tomatoes, sweet corn, berries, different grass and pigs, rabbits, cows, and chicken. According to Anderson (2013), an ecologically sound farmer tends to “maximize the…

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    After reading The Omnivore’s Dilemma CH 8-10 by Michael Pollan, I am shocked by Salatin’s grass farming system, which follows the ecological balance by his intelligent ideas. In Salatin’s farming system, they make animals process the manure, and the animals cannot only absorb the nutrition from the manure, but also it provides the natural nitrogen to the soils which contributes to the soils a lot. The Polyface farm is the original ecology farm, which is not rely on the chemical synthesis and the…

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    Omnivore's Dilemma Summary

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    These huge organic farms do not operate like Joel Salatin’s farm. In fact, a spokesman from Grimmway said that they are in the organic industry for the profitability. Unlike Polyface Farms, these large corporations are not bound by the seasons. Instead, they make use of extreme amounts of energy in order to distribute their food around the world: “The combined company now controls seventeen thousand acres across California, enough land that it can, like Earthbound, rotate production up and down…

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    and unsanitary conditions in factories, where they are crammed together, fed antibiotics to promote faster and unnatural growth without the exposure of fresh air and natural light. Animal cruelty and factory farms have been a hot topic discussed throughout history as it is being a rapidly growing nationwide problem.CAFO stands for concentrated animal feeding operations,it is an animal feeding operation (AFO) that (a) confines animals for more than 45 days during a growing season, (b) in an area…

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    is introduced to the audience immediately through the dissonant sounds of minor chords. The music is then followed by images of classic american farmland; the kind of thing one would see in a 1950s movie featuring plenty of green grass and cowboys on horseback. While the music here is slightly cheerful, it is then followed by a sudden shift as the images fall away from the charming green farms to the fake farm labels in a metal and plastic supermarket. Discordant sounds play along with this…

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    can simply buy it at a grocery store where we can also find anything else we may need. Yes, we still do work for what we have but in a different sense. We work for money in which we pay someone else to get our food for us, nowadays many American’s don’t hunt or garden ourselves. We have become very dependent on others for almost everything. Wendell Berry recommends those who live in the city that are not able to farm themselves to “eat responsibly.” He believes that eating is an agricultural act…

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    of Craftsbury Christmas Tree Farm during his twentieth season operating a small-scale tree farm, following the transformation that both the farm and Pete’s life undergo before, during, and after the peak Christmas tree season. The film will focus on the history of Pete’s ownership of Craftsbury Tree Farm, and raise questions of what will become of it as he gets older. The overarching theme of a family tree will intersect with the stories of the trees on Pete’s land. Treatment A handsaw is…

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    Ranching Essay

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    averaged slightly over $70,000(Roesler). In order to make ranching successful there is a lot of duties a person must do. This would involve supervising crop production(Bureau of labor statistics). Which involves planting, fertilizing, harvesting, and herding(Bureau of labor statistics). So the rancher has to know how to raise crops, and livestock(Bureau of labor statistics). They must be able to handle market conditions, as well as federal programs, and soil conditions(Bureau of labor…

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    Telematics Research Paper

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    internet portal and breaks down the retrieved information into categories. Farm equipment has entered an era of improved technology because of telematics. The combined systems technology provided by telematics has enabled large-scale farmers and industrial businesses to manage their equipment more efficiently and limit major repairs and repair times. Equipment owners are experiencing a multitude…

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