Along with the growing interest in biomass energy crops as renewable alternatives to fossil fuels comes a growing list of questions from corn and soybean farmers about what it will cost them to switch. University of Illinois ...
Ecology
Oct 31, 2012
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Global environmental watchdog Greenpeace launched a new report Monday warning the European Union against authorising herbicide-tolerant genetically engineered (HTGE) crops, saying they would lead to herbicide-resistant super-weeds.
Biotechnology
Oct 22, 2012
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With increasing public awareness of animal welfare, how much more are people willing to pay for the happiness of the animals they eat?
Plants & Animals
Aug 27, 2012
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A study that examined how rural farmers in Ethiopia learn new farming techniques and adopt them on their own farms discovered that learning from a friend was a stronger motivator than learning from neighbors in close proximity.
Environment
Aug 13, 2012
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While consumers will see increases in the prices of meat, eggs and dairy products as a result of this year's drought, they won't see its effects nearly as much as farmers, according to an agricultural economist in Penn State's ...
Economics & Business
Aug 10, 2012
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Microfinance seems like a boost for entrepreneurs in developing countries: Give them little loans, and people can make their small businesses a bit larger. Starting in 2001, the government of Thailand used this idea as ...
Economics & Business
May 10, 2012
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Canada's response to the "milk wars" in the United States in the 1970s was to establish a supply management system that both protects and restricts the income of its dairy farmers. A University of Illinois study examined ...
Economics & Business
Mar 6, 2012
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When food prices spiked in 2008, the number of households that moved into poverty was overestimated by about 60 percent, according to a recent University of Illinois study. In middle-income countries such as Mexico that have ...
Economics & Business
Feb 15, 2012
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Food prices are high worldwide and many factors are causing the increase, according to a Kansas State University agricultural economist.
Economics & Business
Jun 28, 2011
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An SDSU study shows agricultural land values are booming again in South Dakota, charting a 16.5 percent increase in 2010-2011, the third-largest since South Dakota State University economists began tracking the farm real ...
Economics & Business
Jun 28, 2011
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