Sustainable Agriculture

The nitrogen cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that describes the transformations of nitrogen and nitrogen-containing compounds in nature. [...]

The Pesticide Data Program is a partnership between AMS and cooperating state agencies that are responsible for sample collection and analysis of actual levels of pesticide residues found in the U.S. food supply. [...]

Ryan's proposed budget would make substantial cuts to conservation programs, support for local and regional agriculture, incentives for rural job creation. [...]

Seems, the only ones to stay put has been my brainless sheep [...]

He taught me how to swear, how to spit, how to pluck a goose, how to drive a team of oxen (sort of) and just about every dirty joke I still know... Mervin Clark... [...]

The hearing, "Opportunities for Growth: Michigan and the 2012 Farm Bill," will focus on the upcoming reauthorization of the Farm Bill, examining agriculture as well as energy, conservation, rural development, research, forestry and nutrition policies that affect Michigan. [...]

The FY 2011 bill for agriculture included the removal of all congressional earmark funding, a fairly sizable number of rescissions of funding left over from previous fiscal years [...]

We hopped into the clown car. (A car justifiably named so, because of its extremely small size, and comparable amount of stuff John puts in there. He’s had sheep, dogs, kids (-the human kind), calves, beer, livestock feed, (by the pallet load) fencing supplies, lumber, you name it! [...]

“It might be about the rural way of life generally, or about farmers and farming specifically, but it might just be about how living out of town means living wild, and how nature—even cultivated land—is a spiritual force to be reckoned with...” [...]