Agricultural Sciences
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Robert Paarlberg

Uncertain Support from Philanthropic Foundations Independently endowed philanthropic foundations—such as the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations—played an essential role in launching Asia’s Green Revolution almost half a century ago. Times have ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences July 15,2018 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-13 | Author:Philip Hasheider

To braze, thoroughly clean and flux both sides of the joint area. Using a small torch tip, heat the entire joint area until the flux turns clear and starts to ...
( Category: Sustainable Living July 14,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-04-11 | Author:Malcolm T. Sanford

Last-Minute Swarm Prevention Usually when the colony begins rearing queen cells, it means the swarming instinct has been triggered. Two more drastic procedures are then sometimes recommended, but they are ...
( Category: Engineering July 13,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Staller, John; Tykot, Robert; Benz, Bruce

CONCLUSIONS In conclusion, the spread of maize appears to have been initially tied to its use for sugars, at first from the stalks of teosinte, but later from the maize ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 12,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-04 | Author:Simran Sethi

III. TASTING COFFEE Few people love coffee the first time they taste it. We develop an affinity for the drug effect of caffeine, however, forcing ourselves to drink it: Our ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences July 11,2018 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-29 | Author:Lester R. Brown

7 Grain Yields Starting to Plateau From the beginning of agriculture until the mid-twentieth century, growth in the world grain harvest came almost entirely from expanding the cultivated area. Rises ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-07-10 | Author:Robert Litt

FEED STORAGE Chicken feed has a shelf life of about six months when it’s stored in cool, dry conditions such as in a basement (or a feed store). To protect ...
( Category: Gardening & Landscape Design July 11,2018 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-09 | Author:Cobb,Tanya Denckla

Universities Take a Bite into Local One of the first campus campaigns for local food was initiated by a concerned parent – who happened to be chef Alice Waters of ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 10,2018 )
epub |eng | 2010-07-09 | Author:Ian Newton [Newton, Ian]

Greater fecundity is one way in which a migratory population could gain a competitive advantage over resident occupants in a shared wintering area where resources are limited. Even if the ...
( Category: Biological Sciences July 10,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Marion Nestle

FIGURE 23. Industry groups distributed this poster to health food stores during the 1993 campaign to overturn the FDA’s restrictions on health claims for dietary supplements. Posters like this encourged ...
( Category: Agricultural Sciences July 5,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-05 | Author:Leslie Bilderback

sherbets A sherbet (not sher-beRt) is essentially the same dessert as a sorbet, with one additional ingredient—dairy. Usually that ingredient is milk, but as you will see in this chapter, ...
( Category: Cooking by Ingredient July 4,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-15 | Author:Gregory J. Noonan [Noonan,, Gregory J.]

The Fermentation Lock Although the release of carbonic gas from the fermentation gives it some measure of protection against oxidation and contamination, covering the fermenter immediately after pitching and fitting ...
( Category: Beverages & Wine July 4,2018 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hauter, Wenonah [Hauter, Wenonah]

10 MODERN-DAY SERFS Corporation: an ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary Most Americans have no idea that the chicken they eat is ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 2,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-31 | Author:Andrew Fisher

5 Economic Democracy through Federal Food Programs Food Distribution on the Indian Reservation On Janie Hipp’s first day as the senior advisor for tribal relations to USDA secretary Tom Vilsack, ...
( Category: Politics & Government July 1,2018 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-22 | Author:Sally Fallon Morell

THE FOODS OF THAILAND do not fit the low-fat, high-fiber, largely vegetarian paradigm said to protect us against disease. There’s no denying that the delicious, spicy cuisine of Thailand is ...
( Category: Special Diet June 28,2018 )