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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

Cranberry Bogs Use Spiders Instead Of Pesticides

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 23:50:00 +0000

And so the cranberry farmers will ask you how you feel about spiders before hiring you because you might have dozens of swimming WOLF SPIDERS climbing out of the water up your waders and into your hair, but you’ve got to be fine with it because the WOLF SPIDERS are your fellow cranberry bog employees and everyone, even WOLF SPIDERS deserve a safe work environment. Wear a turtleneck or something. Maybe you’re thinking, it’s fine, WOLF SPIDERS don’t bite, and if they do, they’re not venomous, but they do bite and they are venomous, but maybe it all works out if you let them use you for higher ground.

Tags: #WOLFSPIDERS #cranberries #farming

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.

Tags: #agriculture #farming #gmos #imported:pinboard #monsanto #to:fb

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

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

Tags: #agriculture #farming #gmos #monsanto #to:fb

Farming: One way to try and save Detroit - Dec. 29, 2009

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:22:40 +0000

"Crop selection will depend on the soil conditions of the plots that Hantz acquires. Experts insist that most of the land is not irretrievably toxic. The majority of the lots now vacant in Detroit were residential, not industrial; the biggest problem is how compacted the soil is. For the most part the farms will focus on high-margin edibles: peaches, berries, plums, nectarines, and exotic greens. Score says that the first crops are likely to be lettuce and heirloom tomatoes."

Tags: #detroit #farming #michigan #urban

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. "

Tags: #agriculture #farming #gps #robotics #tech

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

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

Tags: #agriculture #farming #genetics #monsanto

stinkygoat: Creepiest ROM cartridge EVER

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:24:28 +0000

Tags: #cullcow #dragon #farming #farms #rom

MercuryNews.com | 12/03/2006 | `Zombie chickens' hatch debate over older chickens' fate

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:55:10 +0000

Again with the tofu hunger: "To kill the chickens, farmers suffocate them in sealed boxes filled with carbon dioxide, a practice that has drawn the ire of animal rights groups. Afterward, the hens are layered in mounds of sawdust."

Tags: #chicken #cruelty #eww #farming #zombies

Boing Boing: Zombie chickens rise from mass graves

Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:54:05 +0000

Totally makes me want to eat tofu: "Apparently though, "zombie birds" that managed to survive have been spotted emerging from mass graves at Northern California farms."

Tags: #braaanes #brains #chicken #cruelty #eww #farming #zombies

'Doomsday vault' to house world's seeds

Thu, 12 Jan 2006 11:55:59 +0000

"Norway is to build a "doomsday vault" in a mountain close to the North Pole that will house a vast seed bank to ensure food supplies in the event of catastrophic climate change, nuclear war or rising sea levels, New Scientist says."

Tags: #environment #farming #future #globalwarming #norway

Yahoo! News - Tabasco Crops Too Hot for Bunnies

Thu, 09 Sep 2004 19:34:45 +0000

"Dutch farmers have devised a hot and spicy way to stop rabbits and rodents from munching their lettuce, carrots and wheat." Aww, poor bunnies. guess I won't share my tabasco with our bunnies.

Tags: #animals #farming