Agriculture Reading Picks


Readers, because I've run across some extra-good articles of late, I thought I'd throw up some links today.--k.m.
Rural Kansas is dying. I drove 1,800 miles to find out why | The New Food Economy
Minnesota experiment upends notions about how plants will offset rising CO2 | MinnPost
The innovation turning desert sand into farmland | BBC
BRICS nations a growing force in grain | World-Grain

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