USDA Gets Behind Local Food

Yes Magazine recently had a short article on a grant by the USDA to study local food production capacity in the northeast. How much of the food eaten in the northeastern United States could be …

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More herbicide use reported on genetically modified crops

http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2009/1221/More-herbicide-use-reported-on-genetically-modified-crops The authors of the report, entitled “Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use,” used US Department of Agriculture data to look at America’s three largest genetically engineered crops – soybeans, corn, and cotton. …

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Watch that Threshold

As a Managing Director in a farmland investment fund I want to make sure that our assets are going to maintain their value long into the future.  Farmland LP is unique in that we consider …

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