Even today, ocean storms threaten to decimate centuries' worth of human endeavor. Humans have attempted to conquer the problems of changing water levels for thousands of years. One of the oldest weapons they've wielded against the rivers and oceans is the levee, also known as a dike. A...
A straw poll is an informal opinion survey. The term is thought to have come from an 1800s American farmland practice of tossing straw in the wind to test its direction. By the 1820s, some American newspapers included informal surveys of public opinion as a way of testing the direction of...
Even though the majority of our state’s landscape is dedicated to farmland, Iowa has a number of natural wonders that are worth a bit of springtime exploration. Visit the Kuehn Conservation Area, an 800-acre preserve along the Raccoon River, for short hiking trails, natural prairie, and geol...
A dozen African countries have sold or leased land to the new agri-colonialists (Asian and Gulf states bought or leased 2.5m hectares of African farmland in the past five years). On a continent where the World Food Programme (WFP) operates in 42 out of 53 countries, is this sensible?
Is that worth it? It should be – it’s a factor of around 1.2 in the New York-Boston trip times, so close to a factor of 1.5 in the projected ridership, which means its value is comparable to spending $15 billion on the difference between this service (including the $5 billion for...
According to The Bismarck Tribune, overall hunter success was 64%, which is shy of the 70% needed in order to be considered a quality season. The dip in numbers has to do with the increase of farmland and oil development. Both have created access issues to hunting land and loss of ...
Yes – states like Iowa, Illinois, and South Dakota all have very high-yielding soil – but the real reason that people feel comfortable buying U.S. farmland is thatwe have a government that takes property ownership seriously andenforces the law. ...
is also quite a piece of work. the epa is already under heavy criticism for weak regulation of pollution from the very kind of large-scale, concentrated livestock favored by branstad and his patron rastetter in iowa. like iowa, oklahoma has a heavy concentration of large-scale, confined animal...
The Iowa caucuses are less than 6 months away, and it is less than 7 until March 3, the monster knockout Super Tuesday vote. I’m looking for the primary winner, VP, how it unfolds, and a prediction for the general. We want multiple chances for glory or embarrassment. In fairness...
For example, you need to have a net worth of $4.5 million in the U.S. to be in the top 1%, and the number jumps to $8 million if you live in Monaco. How To Build Generational Wealth By now, I am sure you are wondering how generational wealth is built? Before you consider gener...