More snow. Boulder has received four feet of snow in April, setting a new record. This put us above average for the season in snowfall. I took the above photo on a walk this week following another ten inch snowfall that was rapidly melting. Even though I appreciate the moisture, I’m tired of snow. We [...]
In inflation-adjusted dollars, agricultural prices fell by an average of 1 percent per year between 1900 and 2010, despite an increase in the world’s population from 1.7 billion to nearly 7.0 billion over the same period. Over the past 50 years, industrialized countries have consistently achieved the highest levels of agricultural output per worker and [...]
1. Purdue Researcher Has Developed Short Corn Plants Requiring Fewer Inputs But Having Equivalent Yields A man by the name of Burkhard Schultz, a plant researcher at Purdue thinks that short varieties of corn and other grains could be the answer to farming in the future. With equivalent yields, the smaller plants would require less [...]
