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What's more efficient: Growing corn for energy or solar?

Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:38:09 +0000

In fact, it would require about 31 hectares of corn ethanol to produce the same amount of energy generated by one hectare of land covered in solar panels.

Tags: #agriculture #corn #energy #farming #solar

Scientists uncovered the nutrients bees were missing — Colonies surged 15-fold | ScienceDaily

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:55:26 +0000

Scientists have developed a breakthrough “superfood” for honeybees by engineering yeast to produce the essential nutrients normally found in pollen. In controlled trials, colonies fed this specially designed diet produced up to 15 times more young, showing a dramatic boost in reproduction and overall health. As climate change and modern agriculture reduce the availability of natural pollen, this innovation could offer a practical way to support struggling bee populations.

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Monsanto Harvest-Resistant Corn Now Engulfing Most Of Midwest | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:27:27 +0000

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the genetically modified crop, which Monsanto originally enhanced with traits to provide resistance from pests, diseases, and environmental conditions such as drought and frost, has become completely impervious to industrial reaping machinery and has spread uncontrollably across 700,000 square miles of land. With the unharvestable corn growing through asphalt roadways and airport tarmacs all over the Midwest, FEMA has been leading efforts to evacuate millions of residents before the plants obstruct all travel in the central United States.

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Monsanto Harvest-Resistant Corn Now Engulfing Most Of Midwest | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:27:27 +0000

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Appeals Court Makes Monsanto Promise Not To Sue Organic Farmers | ThinkProgress

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:20:51 +0000

On Monday, a federal appeals court dismissed organic farmers’ lawsuit against the biotech firm Monsanto Company — but extracted a binding promise from Monsanto that they would not sue farmers whose crops were inadvertently contaminated with their product. Monsanto, which owns the patents to the vast majority of genetically modified staple crops in the U.S., devotes $10 million a year and a staff of 75 specifically to investigate and sue farmers who use their GM technology without paying royalties. To date, they have pursued more than 800 patent infringement cases.

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Appeals Court Makes Monsanto Promise Not To Sue Organic Farmers | ThinkProgress

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:20:51 +0000

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Researchers find high-fructose corn syrup may be tied to worldwide collapse of bee colonies

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 16:58:03 +0000

The researchers aren't suggesting that high-fructose corn syrup is itself toxic to bees, instead, they say their findings indicate that by eating the replacement food instead of honey, the bees are not being exposed to other chemicals that help the bees fight off toxins, such as those found in pesticides.

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Self-Steered Tractors and UAVs: Future Farming Is (Finally) Now | Wired Science | Wired.com

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:56:02 +0000

"The new precision farmers are hacking together a way of making food in which the virtual and physical worlds are so tightly bound that having his tractor steered by GPS-guidance with inch-level accuracy is ho-hum. "

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France 24 | ‘Superweed’ explosion threatens Monsanto heartlands | France 24

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:00:35 +0000

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Sarah Palin Turkey Incident: Does TV Interview While Turkeys Are Slaughtered In The Background (VIDEO)

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:56:54 +0000

I'm definitely not a Palin fan, but this non-story is stupid. I'm squeamish about it, but how the hell do you think the turkey gets on the table? I bet reactions to turkey slaughter help divide people into tribes even better than "You betcha" and "Joe sixpack" verbal cues. I wouldn't be surprised if it were a bit intentional ... "Some videos you just have to see to believe. On Thursday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared in Wasilla in order to pardon a local turkey in anticipation of Thanksgiving. This proved to be a slightly absurd but ultimately unremarkable event. But what came next was positively surreal. After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!!"

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The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race

Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:37:21 +0000

"In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered."

Tags: #agriculture #civilization #history