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Cows in corrals at Leek Ranch in snow, 1891. "A typical Jackson Hole home during early days; notice dirt roof, also floor was of earth - S.N. Leek" Credit: University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Every year, I try to make a post about our home garden. This year is a real hodgepodge of photo garden subjects. For those who don't know, this garden is in Boulder, Colorado. -- k.m. This is a view of our backyard vegetable/herb garden from about a month ago. Everything is bigger now and the tomatoes are finally ripening. My husband is the vegetable "farmer" having this large area plus two

BIOFUELS LAND USE TOTALS: Ten percent of U.S. cropland acreage is devoted towards ethanol/biofuels production. This is some of the very best, richest soil in the world, requiring expensive corporate inputs backed by taxpayer subsidies, and, requiring water, including large amounts of fossil aquifer water. This amounts to 38.1 million acres, according to Bloomberg. Land use for ethanol and

What do you do when the well runs dry? (Another great piece by Art!) | by Art Cullen - The Storm Lake Times A New Zealand Farmer Reflects on Non-subsidization of Farming | Global Farmer Network Researchers claim water irrigation efficiency efforts actually cause more water use | Phys.org Minnesota ranch looks to regenerate land rather than sustain it | InForum China culls thousands of pigs as

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Mission Indian woman filling a granary with acorns (Cacaiste), ca.1898 Photograph of a Mission Indian woman filling a granary with acorns (Cacaiste), ca.1898. She is bent over the granary at her waist. She wears a dark dress and a plaid dress over that. She has a scarf tied about her heat. She is looking back over her shoulder at the camera. The waist-high thatched granary propped on a low wood

Prices of edible oils have fallen over the past year. This reflects rising production throughout the 2017-18 season, after weakness the year before when El Nino, a climatic phenomenon, played havoc with crops. An ample supply of palm oil in Indonesia and Malaysia, as well as of coconut oil in the Philippines, has dampened prices. In July the price of soybeans hit a ten-year low, because of

A 2017 New England Journal of Medicine report listed the following statistics on obesity using data from 2015: Highest number of obese children: China, at 15 million India, at 14 million Highest number of obese adults: United States, at 79 million China, at 57 million Global obesity rates: 5 per cent of children 12 per cent of adults This is a cultural problem that needs to be solved. Reasons

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The Kearney Cotton Mill. Construction on the Mill started in 1890 by the Cumnock brothers (A. G., John, J. W., George W., and Walter), cotton manufacturers from the East. Total floor space of the completed mill was 89,587 square feet. Total cost of the mill and the equipment was $400,000. By September 22, 1892, the first shipment of cotton goods manufactured in Nebraska to be shipped out of the

Jury rules Roundup carcinogenic, Monsanto malicious: awards $289 million to plaintiff | Food Politics Court orders ban of top-selling pesticide, says EPA violated law, ignored scientific studies | Chicago Tribune Editorial: EPA Says Ethanol Damages The Environment � Isn't It Time To Kill The Program? | Investors Business Daily Milking cows on an industrial scale arrives in western Minnesota, and

Farmland Partners stock has taken a beating this year. It is a REIT of farmland operations. Here is its official description on Yahoo finance: Farmland Partners Inc. is an internally managed real estate company that owns and seeks to acquire high-quality North American farmland and makes loans to farmers secured by farm real estate. As of the date of this release, the Company owns or has under

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The Garness family pose in front of their sod home in Custer County, Nebraska, next to a pile of pumpkins. Photographer Solomon D. Butcher. 1887. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Her well runs dry with progress | by Art Cullen - The Storm Lake Times Note: The always-great Iowa Ag commentator, Art Cullen, addresses the subject of water use of ethanol plants when they draw from aquifers unsustainably - among other things. Our food system isn�t broken, but the farm bill is | The Durango Herald FAO Food Price Index posts sharp drop in July. Export prices for cereals, dairy,

This is an interesting USDA graph beginning in the mid-60's and ending in 2016/2017 for wheat, soybeans, and corn. (click to enlarge) The corn consumption is for fuel use, too. How wrong were all those journalistic alarm-sounding voices of ten years ago warning that the world would soon be running out of food.

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Photographer: Andr� Kert�sz. Small Geese. Hungary. 1918. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.