Today’s post was prompted by an invitation from Andrew Revkin to join in on a discussion spawned by his recent post at NYTs “Dot Earth” titled, “Will Synthetic Biology Benefit or Threaten Wild Things?”. A recent conference at Cambridge University brought together two unlikely groups for a groundbreaking conversation between conservationists and synthetic biologists over [...]
Mammals are the dominant terrestrial vertebrates of the Cenozoic. Photo: Wikipedia. Because long-time reader, Steve, a wheat farmer in Washington State who grows wheat for Shepherd’s Grain, tipped Harper’s off to this site upon their publication of the July issue that contained two articles about agriculture, an editor there contacted me and asked if I’d [...]
1,500,000 bushels of corn 2 miles East of Kearney, Nebraska (2010)photo: flickr cc via ConanTheLibrarianThe writing to follow is by Daryll E. Ray and Harwood D. Schaffer, Agricultural Policy Analysis Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee. It addresses today’s seldom spoken-of topic of agricultural commodity overproduction, citing history and quoting Jason Henderson. This certainly goes [...]
