Topic – Agriculture
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No Liberty wheat: too wet to plow
Liberty County
Late 2009 rains have left some Houston area farmers with fields too wet to plow. In Liberty County, no wheat was planted because farms missed the planting time
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Analysis: one-quarter of U.S. grain crop feeds cars instead of people
Mostly corn
An analysis of US Dept of Agriculture figures suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush is impacting world food supplies.
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Agricultural Urbanism
Transects & food production
Agricultural urbanism is much more systematic and planned than urban agriculture, and it applies the New Urbanist idea of transects to food production.
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Neal Peirce
Urban farming in action
Milwaukee nonprofit brings farming, local food to underserved populations
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CNU 17: Talk about change
Is sprawl over?
At the 17th Congress for the New Urbanism there was a decided impulse to just declare victory.
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Increasing Profits and Managing Risks in Rural Agricultural Businesses - Bay City
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“Mitigating Climate Change Through Food and Land Use”
Worldwatch Institute report
Innovations in land use management that reduce greenhouse gas emissions could also be used to remove existing greenhouse gases.
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