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Brewster Ranch is hard to get your head around being half the size of Rhode Island with over 424,000 contiguous acres. If you are looking for a Legacy Ranch with great hunting and fishing this is is impressive. East to West it runs about 57 miles from the Bullis Fold on the Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande to the ...
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If Emily Burchfield, author of a recent study and assistant professor in Emory's Department of Environmental Sciences is correct, the U.S. government might start to take a fresh look at what crops get subsidized and in what areas. Don't kill the messenger on this one. This study was sent my way last week and it took me a while to get ...
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Agriculture and Arctic are two words you don't often see used in combination. But as the world's climate continues to shift, scientists predict rising temperatures in the circumpolar north will enable a substantial expansion of food production.Farming is not easy in the Earth's northern-most regions, but it's not impossible. Farming in the Arctic traces back as far as the 10th century ...
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Australian company "Goanna Ag" is making its GoField water management system commercially available in the U.S. The water-efficiency system is designed to measure crop water stress and predict future water needs in real time. Goanna is currently trialing the system in U.S. corn and cotton crops in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Goanna's GoField incorporates technology from Australia's Commonwealth ...
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J.R. Simplot, who died on this day in 2008 had the inherent ability to see possibilities where others saw obstacles. He also had the resolve to act on them. Simplot struck out on his own as a 14-year-old after his father refused to let him attend a basketball game. The story is his mother gave him $20 in gold coins, ...
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Pastureland conditions this year are off to the worst start for the grazing season since the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began keeping track in 1995. The terrible conditions are the result of the prolonged drought across the country, with about half the U.S. cattle herd within an area experiencing some level of drought. As a result, producers are pushing ...
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Meteorologists were reversing course on predictions that the La Niña weather anomaly is on its way out. Defying earlier patterns that showed La Niña was breaking down, forecasters warn the cycle will return for a rare third year in a row, bringing with it more weather risks for crops across the globe.    The U.S. Climate Prediction Center (CPC) said ...
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About 93 million Americans living today are the direct descendants of "homesteaders" those who filed claims under the "Homestead Act" which was signed on this day in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln. Sadly, however, most of us have seen the recent stats that show the majority of the 33 million schoolchildren in this country today have never set foot on ...
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Dreams of reaching distant planets or even colonizing our own moon are dependent on being able to grow vast quantities of food. Growing it hydroponically is an option but that technology requires a lot of water, which presumably will also be in short supply in outer space. The easiest solution would be the ability to grow food on other planets ...
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Dunkin Donuts is an American institution that has spawned an untold number of copycats over the years. Since its creation in 1948, the company has grown from one shop in Massachusetts to over 11,000 locations across 37 countries. It was all the brainchild of an 8th-grade dropout named William Rosenberg who noticed that Americans really liked donuts with their coffee.Rosenberg ...
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