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Hot 5: Corn Production. Nebraska GDP. Dr. Daniel Hillel. Farming in Japan. Greenhorns.

1. The Globe Ramps Up Its Corn Production in Response to Higher Prices and Less Price Competition from the U.S. World coarse grain production in 2012/13 is forecast to increase more than 7 percent to a record 1,228 million tons, boosted by record corn crops by the United States and major foreign producers. U.S. exports [...]

Japanese Farmer and Philosopher Masanobu Fukuoka: One Straw Revolution

For more information go to Wikipedia: Masanobu Fukuoka

USDA Report: Japan’s Rice Situation After the Tsunami

The USDA report on the Japan tsunami’s effects upon the rice supply and agriculture are in agreement with what I surmised a few days after the event. I have highlighted a few sentences of special interest. See: What Effect will the recent Tsunami, Earthquake, and Nuclear Disaster have upon Japan’s Agriculture? Maps of the Japan [...]