Agriculture
Agriculture is a vast industry that includes plant and animal production, comprehensive support and infrastructure systems, and food and fiber processing. Key application areas of computer...
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Agriculture
The shift from small, independent family farms to fewer, larger farms that rely heavily upon capital and technology began in 1793 with the invention of the cotton gin. The cotton gin enabl...
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Agriculture, History Of
The history of agriculture (the production of food by plant cultivation and animal husbandry and control of productivity) can be organized around
several themes (such as time, ...
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Agriculture, Modern
During the latter half of the twentieth century, what is known today as modern agriculture was very successful in meeting a growing demand for food by the world's population...
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Agriculture
AGRICULTURE, the cultivation of plants for food and other ends, as opposed to the use of plants as they grow naturally in man's environment, is a rather recent phenomenon if conside...
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Feeding an Expanding World
Overview
The heavy plows needed to productively till the heavy soil of northern Europe's fertile valleys were not widely adopted until the Middle Ages, when the breed...
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The Industrialization of Agriculture
Overview
Agricultural technology changed more dramatically in the 1700s than at any time since the introduction of draft animals millennia before. Mechanized plant...
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the art and science of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and raising livestock for human use. The word agriculture comes from the Latin words agermeaning a...
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Agriculture
The earliest human inhabitants of the earth were hunters and gatherers. Under favorable conditions they required at least 1.5 square kilometers to provide food for one person, and in harsh...
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Agriculture
Agriculture, the deliberate raising of plants and animals to enhance and secure food production, evolved in the Near East about 10,000 years ago. It was this transition from hunting-gather...
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Way back when in the eighteen hundreds farming was growing and there lots of people coming over from other countries to farm here, like the damned Chinese. The government was giving away land; ...
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The Eminence of Hope Amidst the Hardship
A farmer's life has forever had its ups and downs, especially in the sometimes harsh climates of the unpredictable Canadian lands. Sinclair Ross outlines t...
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Farmers, while being the corner stone of most civilizations, providing raw materials, rations for their community and creating a start to an economic market, had a hard time surviving. This holds true...
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The reasons for the current problems inherent in modern agriculture and the statement "We are feeding ourselves at the expense of our children" overlap. The reading entitled "Can the Growing Human Po...
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