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Small Farmers Deserve More Developing decades after World War II, industrial farming made its way to almost all of America’s farmland. Today, research has shown that industrial farming is not healthy for our environment and for a matter of fact for us. By supporting our small local farmers it could improve not only our health but our society as well. The research given to us by scientists suggests that industrial agriculture is an unstable way for farmers to produce food over…

amongst agricultural input markets. The exceptional development in yields and agricultural efficiency has been possible due to biological innovations in crop seeds, advancement of hybrid crops in the early part of the 20th century, with implementation of high-yielding varieties and current biotechnology. Innovation of new forms of pesticides and seeds has strikingly enriched agricultural yield (Bloomberg). Agricultural input markets have developed with family–owned and other small businesses.…

Crupina vulgaris Crupina vulgaris is a class A federal noxious weed under the asteraceae family and dicot group, and is part of the spermatophyta subdivision that produces seeds (Natural Resources Conservation Service 2016). C. vulgaris is commonly known as Bearded creeper or Common crupina. It is a winter annual weed that can grow 1 m or 1 to four feet tall (Crupina vulgaris 2015) with three sterile and two fertile flowers (Crupina vulgaris (bearded creeper) 2011) pink to purple in color. C.…

the seed of the woman (the collective of those who trust God) were hoping for the seed of the woman (the man who would achieve the ultimate victory over the serpent). If the books of the Bible were written by and for a remnant of people hoping for the coming of this person, one would expect to find in these texts various resonations of this promise of God. The essay argued that one does, in fact, find imagery from Gen 3:15 in many texts across both testaments. Believers have seen the seed of the…

Gospel, or God’s salvation for his fallen creation. The laws that Moses has written does not save the people from their sin but the Seed of the Woman, a child born of Eve who is without sin, would take the punishment for it. The main message of the Torah is that God promises to save his people and bring back his blessings through faith in the covenant, or agreement, by the seed of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the end of the days. Until that time, the Lord provides laws to keep Israel under…

INTAKE AND DIGESTIBILITY OF WEST AFRICAN DWARF RAMS FED RAW AND PROCESSED PIGEON PEA SEEDS. A. I. UKANWOKO2 and E. O. NWACHUKWU1 . 1Department of Animal Production and Livestock Management College of Animal Science and Animal Production. Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Nigeria. 2Department of Animal Science and Fisheries, University of Port Harcourt. P. M. B. 5323 Choba, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. ndutonia@yahoo.com…

a mixture of grass seeds, fertilizer, mulch and dye are all mixed together and then spread out using a truck onto your lawn. Here are three advantages of using this grass planting method to start your lawn on your new property. You Will Have A Green Yard In No Time If you want to have a nice, green yard to enjoy right away, hydroseeding is the way to go. As long as it is warm when you lay down the hydroseeding material, and stays warm for a while afterwards, the grass seeds should take root…

dying bees. One of the leading manufacturers of the neonicotinoids, Bayer CropScience chief scientist, David Fischer states that if the pesticides were sprayed then they are harmful for the bees. However, if you apply the product to the soil or to the seed, the residue that is absorbed into the plant is in a safe range. Fischer, also stated that neonicotinoids are found in water, bees drink water and plants use water. The wildflowers near water areas such as lakes, have neonicotinoids in them,…

Aboriginals had multiple different tools and weapons that they made, to help them with their tasks. They were smart with making and using tools and weapons. They were the first people in the world to use stone tools to grind seeds, and also to introduce ground edges on cutting tools. The traditional tools included scrapers, digging sticks, knives and axes. And the traditional weapons were spears, shields, clubs and boomerangs. Knives were made of bones or stones they were very sharp, and they…

to control and entire food crop is the amount of money that Monsanto invests. Money means power and Monsanto has had to money to buy companies such as Holden's Foundation Seeds in the late 1990s and Sementes Agroceres S.A. in 1997 causing them to grow international connections. Because Sementes Agroceres S.A. is the leading seed corn company, according to statistics showing a 30% market share (http://www.saynotogmos.org/monsanto_1.htm). Regardless, Monsanto with its international connections,…