Allen, M., " How far can you drive on a bushel of corn? Crunching the numbers on alternative fuels ", Popular Mechanics, May 2006, pp. 74-81.M. Allen: How far can you drive on a bushel...
When you buy an ear of corn or a bag of wheat flour at a supermarket, you probably don't pay much attention to where they were grown or milled. That's because both corn and flour are commodities. Commodities trading is the buying and selling of these interchangeable materials in bulk. O...
In 1965 great Britain changed its standards and units to decimals but before that time they used the standard of Imperial Conversions. The US standards ad units depend on the Imperial system of Britain. But the transformation and conversion are very much confused and problematic between both. Con...
There are ways to harvest flattened corn but it can be tedious and tends to have higher bushel loss. Where and if breakage occurred. If breakage happened at the bottom of the stalk, then yield is likely fully lost. Breakage closer to the ear development area will have some impact on ...
“If you really want to increase yields, you got to have a lot of enzymes in your plants. Unfortunately, we may be limiting how many enzymes and how much production we can get out of them simply because a lot of these elements are tied up.” ...
s on sale at the stores. Compare your shopping list with the weekly circulars and write down how much each item costs at the store, for both organic and conventional prices if you can. Then when you’re shopping the farmers market, you’ll know whether the price is fair or a bit high...
if they got sick. For much of the world and increasingly here in the US, that is not the case. Ethical, clean food is not even on the radar. When prices go up, it naturally hits the ones who can least afford it the hardest. Which leads me to the next part of my shopping trip....
learned and I moved to say a GMO crop farm, and I saw how great everybody was taking care of the soil and how minimal chemicals were used and how GMOs were actually a good thing, the more I just started to dive in deep on how much information are we hearing about ...
Our example begins with a farmer planting winter wheat in the late fall. This wheat is not just a crop; it's the farmer's savings resulting from much labor and contains hopes for a future livelihood. However, the farmer knows that the price of wheat at harvest time next summer can chang...
Professor: Pay attention little Pigs. Porky, please tell us if a bushel of bright juicy corn is $1.50 a bushel, how much are four bushels? Porky!Porky: (wakes up from sleeping) Oh, I am sorry teacher. What was the question?Professor: Porky, will you ever learn to pay attention? (...