庫間/해외자료769 80년대 위기에서 살아남은 미국 농부들이 배운 것 Some basic economic forces are driving mid-sized farms out of existence. First, food prices keep falling. “Ever since World War II, agricultural commodities have trended steadily down,” agricultural economist Otto Doering told me. We are on a technology treadmill: Farmers get a new tech (like hybrid seeds), increase productivity, and make money. But then all the farmers get.. 2015. 4. 23. 미국의 미친 농업보조금 Nearly every industrialized nation on Earth subsidizes agriculture to some extent. It’s a way to make sure production stays high, and prices stay low. It’s just a matter of figuring out how to make it work — and that’s where things get tricky. Right now in the U.S., we subsidize certain crops pretty heavily. These are things that can be shipped and stored easily, an.. 2015. 4. 23. 대규모 상업농 농민은 악마인가? If you’ve ever crossed Iowa on I-80 en route to someplace you fancy more exotic, you might recall mile after solitary mile of soybeans and corn and the occasional side-leaning barn. Agriculture, you may have noticed, is Iowa’s most palpable characteristic — but, I’ll wager a guess, you didn’t see more than one or two farmers anywhere in sight. Even as a small-tow.. 2015. 4. 16. 미얀마의 간편 퇴비 제조 More than two decades ago in the Irrawaddy delta in Myanmar, farmers began planting two rice crops each year. Rice production increased, but for how long? Depleted organic matter and acidification are now affecting soil health, and farmers who can’t afford fertilizer are seeing their rice yields declining. This is why 200 farmers started to compost rice straw. With this they .. 2015. 3. 16. 기본으로 돌아가자: 유기농업을 위한 육종 Organic agriculture is not limited to edible produce. ASA and CSSA member Jane Dever, a professor at Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Lubbock, has been breeding cotton plants for years, and today, she strives to maintain the purity of new, improved organic varieties. Also pictured is graduate student Dylan Wann. Around 10,000 BC, the dawn of the Agricultural .. 2015. 3. 11. 덮개작물을 공부하자 http://covercrops.cals.cornell.edu/index.php 2015. 2. 28. 이전 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ··· 129 다음 반응형
