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| | Agriculture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Aquaculture, the farming of fish, shrimp, and algae, is closely associated with agriculture. | | | The practice of agriculture is also known as "farming", while scientists, inventors and others devoted to improving farming methods and implements are also said to be engaged in agriculture. | | | In addition to emergence of farming in the Fertile Crescent, agriculture appeared by at least 6,800 BC in East Asia (rice) and, later, in Central and South America (maize, squash). |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farming
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| | farming on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Experimental farming station testing fields of bananas, in the region of Eilat. | | | Although tax farming is no longer practiced, it was common in the cities of ancient Greece and in republican Rome, where the collection of direct taxes was farmed out to publicans; in the Roman Empire only indirect taxes were farmed. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/f1/farming.asp
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| | Story of Farming |
| | These people were supported by farming of wheat, barley, peas, and lentils. | | | Early on, the large changes were in the use of new farm implements. | | | We will examine the major historical cultures, the development of the tractor, and the major types of agriculture practiced today. |
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http://www.historylink101.com/lessons/farm-city/story-of-farming.htm
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| | Collective Farming Encyclopedia Article, Description, History and Biography @ ArtisticNudity.com |
| | Collective farming is an organizational unit in agriculture in which peasants are not paid wages, but rather receive a share of the farm's net output. | | | Collective farming (of the completely voluntary kind) was also implemented in Kibbutzim as a unique combination of Zionism and socialism. | | | Collective farming has been implemented in nearly all communist states, with varying degrees of success. |
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http://www.artisticnudity.com/encyclopedia/Collective_farming
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| | FAO:AG21:Magazine:Spotlight:Organic farming |
| | Organic farming is one of several approaches to sustainable agriculture. | | | Eliminating the use of synthetic nitrogenous fertilizer greatly lowers the risks of nitrogen contamination of water, while crop rotation is a widely used method of fertility maintenance and pest and disease control. | | | Indeed, many of the techniques used in organic farming - such as inter-cropping, mulching, and integration of crops and livestock - are practised under various agricultural systems. |
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http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/magazine/9901sp3.htm
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| | Biodynamic Farming & Compost Preparation |
| | Biodynamic agriculture was the first ecological farming system to arise in response to commercial fertilizers and specialized agriculture after the turn of the century, yet it remains largely unknown to the modern farmer and land-grant university system. | | | The fact remains that biodynamic farming is practiced on a commercial scale in many countries and is gaining wider recognition for its contributions to organic farming, food quality, community supported agriculture, and qualitative tests for soils and composts. | | | Today biodynamic agriculture is practiced on farms around the world, on various scales, and in a variety of climates and cultures. |
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http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/biodynamic.html
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| | Bismarck Tribune Online - Bismarck, ND |
| | Organic farmers are trying to unhook from the corporate-controlled system of farming, she said. | | | On their 1,600 organic acres, "because we don't spray," Mittleider said, "we rotate." Alternating early seeded grasses such as wheat and oats with late-seeded corn or broadleaf crops helps break up weed cycles by varying the times the ground is tilled. | | | Organic farming is friendly to family farming because it needs more "eyes per acre," Podoll said. |
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http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2004/01/26/news/local/nws02.txt
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| | Farming |
| | In this unit the primary focus is on farms, farm animals, their families, animal body parts, and the food products that we get from farms. | | | Cruise a Kansas wheat farm, eyeball a prairie | | | At the same time, the use of tractors and other modern farm equipment has sharply reduced the need for farm labor. |
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http://www.42explore.com/farming.htm
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| | Dry Farming: Chapter 1 |
| | In reality it is farming under drier conditions than those prevailing in the countries in which scientific agriculture originated. | | | When it is over 30 inches, the methods of humid-farming are employed; in places where the annual precipitation is between 20 and 30 inches, the methods to be used depend chiefly on local conditions affecting the conservation of soil moisture. | | | In districts of torrential rains, high winds, unfavorable distribution of the rainfall, or other water-dissipating factors, the term "dry-farming" is also properly applied to farming without irrigation under an annual precipitation of 25 or even 30 inches. |
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http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010102/01010201.html
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| | EUROPA - Agriculture - Organic farming |
| | Organic farming has to be understood as part of a sustainable farming system and a viable alternative to the more traditional approaches to agriculture. | | | Since the EU rules on organic farming came into force in 1992, tens of thousands of farms have been converted to this system, as a result of increased consumer awareness of, and demand for, organically grown products. | | | The organic farm sector grew by about 25 % a year between 1993 and 1998 and, since 1998, is estimated to have grown by around 30 % a year. |
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/qual/organic/index_en.htm
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| | Boyd and Sons, Inc. |
| | The family farm is outfitted with a state of the art grain facility that can store up to 350,000 bushels of grain. | | | From the spring planting season to the harvest in the fall all operations are handled with up to date equipment. | | | The Boyd family’s roots run deep in the agriculture industry, and today farming still plays a fundamental role in the Boyd and Sons operation. |
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http://www.boydandsons.com/farming.htm
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| | Farming |
| | Because farmed crops need water and fertile soil, a lot of Pacific Northwest farming takes place very near to the waterways that salmon need to complete their life cycle. | | | Push-up dams are banks of gravel and soil pushed up in the middle of a stream with a tractor or other piece of heavy farm equipment. | | | People in farming have learned from past mistakes and they've made changes in their soil and water management practices, according to Madison. |
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http://eesc.orst.edu/salmon/human/farming.html
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| | ERS/USDA Briefing Room - Organic Farming and Marketing |
| | Organic farming became one of the fastest growing segments of U.S. agriculture during the 1990's. | | | Organic farming systems rely on ecologically based practices, such as cultural and biological pest management, and virtually exclude the use of synthetic chemicals in crop production and prohibit the use of antibiotics and hormones in livestock production. | | | U.S. Organic Agricultural Production in 2003—New data on organic farming in the U.S., including certified acreage and livestock numbers as USDA national organic rules were implemented. |
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http://www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/Organic
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| | The Vertical Farm Project @ VerticalFarm.com |
| | The concept of indoor farming is not new, since hothouse production of tomatoes, a wide variety of herbs, and other produce has been in vogue for some time. | | | The Vertical Farm must be efficient (cheap to construct and safe to operate). | | | Vertical farms, many stories high, will be situated in the heart of the world's urban centers. |
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http://www.verticalfarm.com
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| | Organic Europe Home Page |
| | 1% of farms), and the organically cultivated area was 43'982 hectares (ca. | | | The overall objective of the CORE Organic project is to enhance quality, relevance and utilisation of resources in European research in organic food and farming and to establish a joint pool of at least 3 million € per year for transnational research in organic food and farming by the end of the project. | | | In 2004 the number of organic farms was as high as 1043 (ca. |
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| | Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association (BDA) Home Page |
| | The Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association (BDA), a non-profit organization open to the public, was formed in the U.S. in 1938 in order to foster, guide, and safeguard the Biodynamic method of agriculture. | | | Based on a series of lectures given by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner in 1924, Biodynamics is a method of agriculture which seeks to actively work with the health-giving forces of nature. | | | It is the oldest non-chemical agricultural movement, predating the organic agriculture movement by some twenty years and has now spread throughout the world. |
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http://www.biodynamics.com
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| | BBC NEWS Science/Nature Peruvian farmers learn from history |
| | The region is home to around 2,500 people, and agriculture - particularly livestock farming - is the key industry. | | | However, some are now returning from the cities and settling back into agriculture - and the restoration of the Inca techniques is having a massive impact. | | | "Survival became the overriding issue - farming was secondary," Juan explained. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3047421.stm
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| | Ancient and Medieval Farming - History for Kids! |
| | People did not farm at all until around 10,000 BC, or about 12,000 years ago. | | | They probably began farming because the area where they lived got too crowded. | | | First, you have to get the seeds in the ground. |
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http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/economy/farming
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| | Ancient Egyptian Farming |
| | Another thing that effects the type of farming in Ancient Egypt where it doesn't always effect in other places is the flood. | | | Animals were one of the most important things about farming. | | | Animals helped you with jobs like trampling in the seeds, pulling your plow, eating unwanted grain or wheat and providing you with food and drink. |
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http://www.dragonstrike.com/egypt/farm.htm
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| | Up Close & Personal |
| | Since farming is such an important part of life in this region we've decided to introduce you to some farmers who live near the excavation site. | | | Next, a farming family that lives right outside the monastery. | | | This is why almost all of Egyptian agriculture is either along the Nile River, or in areas where wells can be dug like Wadi Natrun. |
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| | Agriculture Online Home |
| | Find out how young and beginning farmers are achieving their dream of full-time farming. | | | See the new site dedicated to helping farm women improve their risk management skills. | | | Agriculture Online's free Classifieds are the industry's leading source for information on buying and selling farm and ranch items. |
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http://www.agriculture.com
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| | truck farming - Columbia Encyclopedia® article about truck farming |
| | As the use of railroads and large-capacity trucks expanded and refrigerated carriers were introduced, truck farms spread to the cheaper lands of the West and South, shipping seasonal crops to relatively distant markets where their cultivation is limited by climate. | | | It is usually less intensive and diversified than market gardening market gardening, cultivation, on suburban land of high value, of vegetables and flowers for the supply of nearby cities. | | | truck farming, horticultural practice of growing one or more vegetable crops on a large scale for shipment to distant markets. |
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http://columbia.thefreedictionary.com/truck%20farming
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| | The Hemp Report |
| | Hemp is a crop with a rich history in U.S. agriculture. | | | Strong focus on hemp farming and developments in Canada. | | | The hemp retail sales figures to be presented at the Hemp Industries Association (HIA) annual meeting demonstrate that retail sales of hemp foods and body care made from hemp seed and oil continued their explosive growth and are fueling a major expansion in Canadian hemp farming. |
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| | CASFS - Welcome |
| | Please note: the UCSC Farm is located near the east (main) campus entrance. | | | The Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems is a research, education, and public service program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, dedicated to increasing ecological sustainability and social justice in the food and agriculture system. | | | From mid June through October, fresh organic produce and flowers are available twice a week at the Farm and Garden's Market Cart stand. |
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| | American Farmland Trust: Saving the Land that Sustains Us |
| | Farm policy should encourage soil stewardship, says Varel Bailey, who works hard to farm in environmentally sound ways. | | | Farm Policy Voices for Change: Varel Bailey, Iowa crop and livestock farmer | | | Bailey stresses the need for results-based conservation programs that encourage producer creativity in goals like erosion reduction and the integration of crops and livestock to minimize the use of purchased fertilizer. |
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http://www.farmland.org
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| | FactoryFarm.org |
| | Stop the factory farm machine one meal at a time. | | | All content on this site is copyright 2003 GRACE Factory Farm Project except where otherwise noted and cannot be used in a commercial manner without prior permission from GRACE Factory Farm Project. | | | "Is Your Meat Fit to Eat?" is our basic introduction to factory farms and the problems they cause. |
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| | Factory Farming - Home Page |
| | In animal agriculture, this attitude has led to institutionalized animal cruelty, massive environmental destruction and resource depletion, and animal and human health risks. | | | credit to Farm Sanctuary, except where otherwise indicated. | | | Copyright © 1998 - 2005 by Farm Sanctuary |
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| | Defra, UK - Farming |
| | A range of material on farming policy, including CAP Reform and the Single Payment Scheme, Farm Regulation and Charging Strategy and the sustainable farming and food strategy | | | This page highlights general material that is specifically relevant for people working in farming - including business advice for farmers, the Whole Farm Approach, guidance and support services, the Agricultural Wages Order and the Fresh Start initiative | | | Correction: The latest version of Farming Link wrongly stated that the Agricultural Waste Regulations came into force on 5th December 2005. |
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http://www.defra.gov.uk/farm/farmindx.htm
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| | World Farming |
| | Brighten up your city home with a rooftop farm | | | NZ Farming - Home of farming in New Zealand | | | Floods will mean lay offs for some farm workers |
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http://archive.wn.com/2004/02/22/1400/worldfarming
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| | Alternative Farming Systems Information Center |
| | Welcome to the Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC) at the National Agricultural Library (NAL). | | | AFSIC is supported, in part, by USDA's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program, and a cooperative agreement with the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. | | | We specialize in identifying and accessing information related to alternative agricultural enterprises and crops as well as alternative cropping systems. |
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| | Amazon.ca: Farming: Search Results Books |
| | All Flesh Is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming | | | Five Acres and Independence: A Handbook for Small Farm Management | | | Successful Small-Scale Farming: An Organic Approach -- by Schwenke (Author) |
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http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/external-search?tag=bookstore0e86-20&keyword=Farming&mode=books
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| | Lancaster Farming: Lancaster, PA |
| | Lancaster Farming: Lancaster, PA Viewing this page requires a browser capable of displaying frames. |
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| | Farming in the 13 American Colonies |
| | in colonial differed in many ways from farming today. | | | Clickable map of the 13 Colonies with descriptions of each colony | | | Wheat could be ground to make flour, and both wheat and flour could be sold in other colonies or in Europe. |
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| | Farming Magazine- people, land , and community |
| | Farming Magazine celebrates the joys of farming well and living well on a small, | | | Home,Farming Magazine - People, Land, and Community - grazing, small farms, agriculture | | | intricate bonds connecting people, land, and community and it offers a hopeful vision of the future of farming in America. |
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http://www.farmingmagazine.net
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| | Amazon.com: Farming: Books: Gail Gibbons |
| | It also discusses different types of farms and different farm animals. | | | An introduction, in simple text and illustrations, to farming and the work done on a farm throughout the seasons. | | | Life on the farm is a mode of existence most people take for granted. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0823407977?v=glance
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| | Farming |
| | The best site on the web providing information on farming |
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| | NAL: Organic Agriculture Information Access |
| | This collection is provided by the Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC), a part of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), with funding from the USDA National Organic Program and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. | | | Access to this data is intended to provide growers with new ideas on crop production without chemicals, as well as help researchers conserve scarce resources by avoiding unintended duplication. | | | This effort is part of the AFSIC "Organic Roots" project. |
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| | Farming : Agriculture, News, Classifieds, Food Science, Animals, Horticulture Home Page |
| | Farming : Agriculture, News, Classifieds, Food Science, Animals, Horticulture Home Page | | | Publish Your Own Article: Farming.AFreePress.com is where you can report or read about Farming. | | | Your contribution will automatically appear on the Farming page of the 34,436 local news sites in the GetLocalNews.com Network, reaching millions of readers. |
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| | Ostrich Farming & Products - Ostriches Online |
| | To provide a little background for you, Ostriches On Line own and operate many ostrich farms, as well as market every conceivable ostrich-related product in over 80 countries around the world, including livestock, farming equipment, incubation/hatching equipment, finished products and consultancy services. | | | Your decision to learn more about this tremendous agricultural alternative is indeed a wise one. | | | We are confident that we have the solution for you and your farming requirements either now or in the future. |
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