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Nelson brought us to Texas. And now we're going to use cotton seed oil or used cooking oil to produce two million gallons of fuel for this community. Every community will experiment with what works best in their community. Cotton can't be grown in all areas, but the local farmers know what grows best and they can rotate their crops to reduce the need for pesticides. Bob King
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Monsanto will continue to pursue applications that will give them greater control over how crops are grown, and to get more out of the seeds,
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Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people, maybe we could dilute it down and spray it on our crops to deal with pests.' Woody Harrelson
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We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years. Paul Watson
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You grow great crops in great soil. And the soil is the commons. Increasingly, we have monopolistic companies that try to take as much as they can for themselves. And we have a patent and copyright regime that makes sure that nothing goes back into the commons unless by an extraordinary act of generosity. This is not fertile soil for innovation. Tim O'Reilly
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It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon; which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
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The fact that terminator technology will work to the disadvantage of the subsistence farmer who depends on harvesting seeds for the next year's crops illustrates the intent of the companies, which is to get the maximum return on their investment,
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In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life. Alice Morse Earle
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The concept of serendipity often crops up in research. Serendipity is the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things that were not being sought. I believe that all researchers can be serendipitous. Akira Suzuki
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest. Wendell Berry
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We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock. Tom Vilsack
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Seasonally ploughing and harvesting crops will mash up a few moles, slice through a burrow of field mice and crush any ground-nesting bird chicks. Far more significant, however, is the creation of the field in the first place: an act that replaces entire ecosystems, along with all their animal inhabitants. Tristram Stuart
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We won't know the extent of the damage until after the crops are harvested. John Park
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I've made it all my life, had some tough times and some good times, but I don't know how to make these (ends) meet, ... I thought in the spring I had one of the better crops around here and then overnight it took a different change.
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Some Western North Carolina farmers who have been selling commodity crops are not pleased with the prices they've been getting. Many are now looking for new markets and new ways to diversify their income, control the price they get for what they grow, and stay in farming. We are fortunate in Western North Carolina because we have many family farms and a community of people and businesses that wants locally grown food. This conference aims to give farmers the skills they need to reach these markets successfully.
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SBA's disaster declaration was issued as a result of a similar action taken by the Secretary of Agriculture to help farmers recover from damages and losses of crops caused by drought that occurred Feb. 1, 2005, and continuing.
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Proponents of pharmaceutical crops have inflated the rewards and downplayed the risks.
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Producers have a lot of money invested in their animals, crops and facilities. Therefore, they need to think about the threats that could put them out of business.
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Official U.S. government policy in the Clinton administration is to grow food chain crops --the food supply of America -- on poison. And not to tell the public.
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The Valley's a unique place; we're able to grow crops year-round. Brian Jones
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This does really provide a model for guest workers to be treated with dignity. But also at the same time, for agricultural employers to ensure they have the workers to get their crops harvested.
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This is a dilemma that always crops up with interest groups that too narrowly define themselves on one issue or another. Do they hold politicians to a standard of purity that ends up hurting them, the interest group? Do you let perfect be the enemy of the good? That is the dilemma they face.
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Coexistence measures are designed to ensure that GM crops can be grown alongside non-GM crops without negative economic consequences caused by accidental mixing of the two.
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As hot as it's been with no rain, anything that hasn't been watered is pretty well dried up by now. I would think people's lawns and gardens are burning up if they haven't been watered. Non-irrigated crops are probably suffering pretty bad. Probably, the fire danger in those areas, of course, is going to be higher.
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They took all our land; I don't have any land to toil. My crops have to grow somewhere else. John Trudell
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Everyone should be free to choose. But that choice is eroded if GM and non-GM crops are unintentionally mixed up; and in such cases, there may be an economic impact on one or more of the parties involved.
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Erosion is a slow and insidious process. Yet, controlling soil erosion is really quite simple: The soil can be protected with cover crops when the land is not being used to grow crops.
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Farmers reported partial to complete damage of their crops and properties. Mark Hudson
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The risk to crops and farms won't be as significant if it loses force, ... When you look at the lessons from Katrina, the eventual damage to agriculture was less than feared. The department of agriculture actually revised up its estimates of production in the state after Katrina passed.
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It would take time for that to occur and during this period of adjustment -- some things might not get done -- maybe some crops won't be picked or some hotel rooms won't get cleaned. Mark Zandi
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These specialty crops require a lot of care and work. They have to be packed and shipped in a different and careful way.
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These new genetically engineered food crops are the first wave of a generation of 'Brave New World' foods that are going to have serious health and environmental repercussions, Jeremy Rifkin
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While demand remains strong, the farm economy will be challenged by large stacks of crops built up by abundant harvests the last two years, livestock expansion, higher interest rates and energy costs, animal-disease issues and weather.