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A farm family poses outside their sod house. Note the clothes made from the same bolt of cloth in East Custer County, Nebraska, circa 1888. Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society. USDA photo. (1888 was the year of the big blizzard.) Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

Will organic revolution boost farming in India? | BBC (with lovely video) Could we save the world if we all went vegan? The amount of farmland needed to sustain human life would shrink by 3.1bn hectares � the size of the African continent | FT Japan teams with Southeast Asia to protect its prized fruits; Experts will help install law that guards against intellectual property theft | Nikkei Asian

This subject is not new to Big Picture Agriculture... That�s according to a group of architecture students at MIT who have developed a new design for building massive structures out of timber called the Longhouse. The group will be presenting their vision for a community centered co-working space at the Maine Mass Timber Conference in October, a conference dedicated to finding more sustainable

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Readers, once again, we are privileged to host this summer's end wrap-up on an Iowa farm by Stanford's Professor, Walter P. Falcon. There's nothing else like it that I'm aware of, given his incredibly unique perspective. He is an excellent writer and his writing always contains some real nuggets for those paying close attention. --k.m. Field Notes from an Iowa Farm: Prices, Politics, and

Morning on the Farm 1897. Library of Congress. Otherwise, unknown details. Every Thursday a carefully selected old agricultural photo is featured here on Big Picture Agriculture � lest we forget how things used to be.

New global study reveals the �staggering� loss of forests caused by industrial agriculture | ScienceMag The farmer-managed Cooperatives Working Together export assistance program has helped its member dairy cooperatives sell over 50 million pounds of America-type cheeses and 50 million pounds of whole milk powder overseas so far in 2018. | USAgnet Millions of chickens drown in Florence

There is an 83-minute award-winning documentary which tells a beautiful story of culture of an Indian village of 5,000 people, where everyone sings while working in the rice fields. The documentary title is "Kho ki pa l�" which means "the sound goes up, the sound goes down and the sound goes sideways", thus the English title "Up Down and Sideways". (Kho ki pa l� is the way the polyphonic music of

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Grain Elevators. Mossleigh, Alberta. The remaining grain elevators along the abandoned Canadian Pacific Railway tracks in Mossleigh, Alberta. A farm family in the Mossleigh area of Southern Alberta is doing all it can to keep their local grain elevators towering over the prairies. Eric Donovan and his cousin purchased two of the three aging structures when the original owner had no more use

Why Is America Obsessed with Lawns? by Michael Pollan �Monster� Turns Our Farmers into Serfs and Sharecroppers; The Grapes of Wrath and its vision of enslavement to big agribusiness isn't just our past�it is our present too. | AmericanConservative If you want to save the world, veganism isn�t the answer | The Guardian Harvard�s Foreign Farmland Investment Mess; The university�s holdings in

According to Bloomberg, the largest land use change category in the U.S. is the growth of metropolitan areas. Another large gainer is the land owned by wealthy families.

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A Klamath Indian rests against a large Ponderosa pine in 1923. White settlers in this area at first wanted only the lower-elevation land more suitable for farming. Consequently, the Klamath Reservation was situated on a vast tract of timberland. The Indians later developed this �unwanted� land into a lucrative industry. (I presume the location is Oregon.) Photo credit: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

The United States is on track for another record-setting year of corn yields. USDA�s first survey-based yield forecast of the 2018/19 corn crop reported a yield gain of 4.4 bushels per acre to a record 178.4 bushels. This eclipses the record set during the 2017/18 marketing year (September-August). Over the long term, corn yields trended upward with limited interruption until 2010/11 when a

Twenty-five percent of "land use" in the U.S. falls into the category of unprotected forests and timberland. This does not include the large amount of protected wilderness and parklands trees and forests. Source: Bloomberg.

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