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...
The slogan is run trains as fast as necessary, not as fast as possible: expensive investment is justifiable to get the trip times between two knots to be a little less than an hour instead of a little more than an hour, but beyond that, it isn’t worth it, because connecting passengers...
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. Take Africa, for example. There aremassivestr...
When today reference is made to “markets,” a mode of thinking is often engaged which construes any kind of “trade” as a natural phenomenon abiding to “natural laws” or “market forces,” as already illustrated inChap. 1. The underlying ideas are in many ways constitutive for the org...
North Oaks was once the state's largest gated community. Today, that legacy is still evident in the city's complete lack of public property; private property lines extend all the way to the middle of the streets. Amenities include trails, parks, and lakes, with former farmland that was use...
As an example of consolidation within the food industry, the number of Iowa pig farms shows a very clear downward trend over the 25 years from 1982 to 2007. Here, an opposite trend is obvious. While the number of farms has decreased as in the above graph, the production level/size of ...
Holthaus has taken this charge seriously and From the Farm to the Table is the result. It is a book worthy of the effort and well worth the time to read. Author information Authors and Affiliations Department of Religion, University of Florida, Anderson Hall, Gainesville, FL, USA Todd J. ...
in a 6.5lb. sample to Genetic ID, an Iowa-based GMO testing lab. Keiser says a representative from Genetic ID told him “the GMO level could have been as high as 50% in his corn.†Keiser continues to test his corn and is “concerned about prob...
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...
The French beekeepers took a similar case against fipronil all the way to their supreme court and lost [58, 59]–worth reading]. Agriculture is already positioning itself for a fight [60, 61, 62]. Think about it—the EPA lives in fear of a conservative congress slashing their funding. ...