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In Iowa, what were you no-tilling and how many acres? Michelle Miller: Well, I know it'll come as a shock, but we were growing corn in Iowa. Corn, soybeans, oats, hay, grew some cereal rye for cover crop seed and had commercial scale sheep and beef cattle. So I...
many middle-class Black families also left for opportunities elsewhere. Those who stayed faced bleak prospects. “You could have a master’s degree and be in Waterloo, and if you were Black, it was hard for you to find
Our subsidy system is all geared to Iowa and Nebraska. And the senators and congressmen in the desert states have to say, "The deserts are the laboratory of the future, so we have to overhaul agricultural subsidies." I'm not against subsidies—libraries are subsidized public institutions—but...
58% of the energy intake in the American diet is from ultra processed foods and not coincidentally nearly 40% of the population is considered obese, facing growing rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes and dementia. It’s not that all processed foods are bad since many highly nutritious fo...
Cattle ownership is a pretty significant investment. Therefore, producers need to be able to calculate their break-even points and lock in prices on their commodities for better price management. Instead of waiting and getting whatever the price happens to be in the future. For many cattle produc...
The benefit of omega-3 supplementation has been debated in the cardiology and nutritional literature for many years. Most studies of supplementation have failed to measure tissue levels achieved and often used very low doses. But when tissue levels were measured, either in the serum or red blood...
fully understood even by those who devoted their lives to studying and subduing it. It was a summer plague, coming on in late spring and all but vanishing in the fall. Many thought contagion had something to do with water, and Americans kept their children away from s...
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There was a time in the very recent past when many on the left were confident that an era of Democratic dominance was just around the corner, the inevitable result of a “rising electorate” of younger, better educated, and more diverse voters. The midterms were a wake-up call. The ri...