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POPSMore than a Tractor Here's an interesting view on Deere & Co. That stock, a Forbes Beltway Index constituent (http://www.forbes.com/fdc/beltway/fbi.html), is down 28% so far this year. It sells for 14 times earnings.
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POPS'Flexi-bee' could pre-empt varroa mite.
Of course there is the honey, but there is also the critical role bees play in pollination, particularly crop fertilization. The loss of honey bee populations has the potential to have a devastating effect in many crops that at the moment we take for granted. There are two suggestions. One is to prevent the mite laying by altering a chemical released by the bees. The other disrupts the life cycle of the mite. It doesn't have to be either/or, both approaches need to be tried, in addition to further suggestions. The main thing we have to worry about taking into account our record of 'fixing' problems in nature (we don't seem to be that good at it) Is that our efforts don't further endanger the bee populations At the moment however, if we do nothing we will lose the bees. There is the possibility, that bees will develop their own resistance to the mite naturally. Selective breeding may be an option. I would be more inclined to listen to a beekeeper than a geneticist,.
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POPSEPA Rejects Ethanol Waiver For Texas Cattle Ranchers Scott Faber with the Grocery Manufacturers Association says more than a third of the corn crop now goes to fuel and that increases the cost of food. Faber says food prices have already risen around 6 percent and critics say ethanol hasn't lived up to its promise. It was supposed to cut pollution and reduce demand for oil. Frank O'Donnell is with Clean Air Watch. It's not often he agrees with Texas, but he does today. He says the EPA got it wrong. Frank O'Donnell: We are actually seeing more air pollution this summer than last. Now, maybe it's a coincidence, maybe not, but we've got more ethanol and we've got more smog. Groups against today's decision plan to lobby Congress to ease the ethanol mandate.
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POPSWalmart goes local They've always had a brilliant distribution system. It is great that they're able to add this layer of complexity to it. I hope it does benefit local organic growers and does not turn them into one crop wonders.
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POPShair cuts! mine is long and staying long, so many hairstyles when long!
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POPSA reply to "Electric Cars is it the real answer?" by jt3600 Hybrids and electric cars are just in the developement stages. Sure there are kinks to work out, costs to be brought down, infrastructure to be expanded. The thing is, it is a start toward another way of being, thinking. Change can be revolutionary and evolutionary. But change things must.
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POPSIn Miscanthus giganteus, researchers find energy alternative The U.S. government has a goal of producing enough ethanol to offset one fifth of gasoline use in the country, but by using corn or switchgrass as ethanol feedstock, it would take about 25 percent of U.S. cropland out of food production, according to the researchers. In comparison, to produce the same amount of ethanol with Miscanthus, it would take 9.3 percent of the acreage for agriculture, they said. In the U.K., the grass is commercially used for energy production.
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POPSAgriculture, from a different angle Several tribes of bark beetles are also major forest pests, and they farm their fungus gardens as their only source of food by growing the crop inside the sapwood of dead or dying trees. But the leaf-cutter ants are the modern pioneers, and their farming techniques are the most sophisticated of all, according to Schultz and Brady. They involve three separate but mutually dependent organisms that must all work together: The ants that eat leaves, grasses and flowers; the fungus that grows in the ant gardens; and a unique bacterium that lives and grows on the skin of the ants for mutual support. interesting.
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