Crop Rotation in the Grain Belt
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Wheat is steadily being replaced by corn as the crop of choice for American farmers.
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ROCHELLE, Ill.  - Golden mountains are rising out  of the fertile farmlands of the U.S. Midwest, a changing  landscape formed by huge piles of corn from the most bountiful  harvest in U.S. history.
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When farmer Greg Bryant first heard about plans for windmills along a swath of mountain ridges in this northeastern Vermont hamlet, he was all for it. The idea of tapping a plentiful natural resource for power was appealing.
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Because of rising demand for ethanol, American farmers are growing more corn than at any time since the Depression. And sea life in the Gulf of Mexico is paying the price.
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By Debbie Gebolys, The Columbus Dispatch, Ohio  Jun. 17--In the rolling landscape north of Scioto Downs, a colony of agricultural researchers and greenhouse entrepreneurs toils a short walk from their ecologically sensitive homes.
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Plant scientists who work to protect Red River Valley sugar beet fields from weeds and disease have helped farmers enjoy record crops in the last two years.
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By Margaret Slaby, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--You've planted and pruned, watered and watched it grow. And now, at last, the first crop of tree fruit is ripening on the branch. Then the birds descend. They perch and peck, pillage and plunder.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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By Bill Hord, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Sep. 14--LINCOLN -- Farmers ranked renewable energy and assistance for small and beginning farmers as top priorities for farm policy in a nationwide survey released Wednesday.
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By MORGAN, Jon  It isn't easy being green, agricultural and horticultural scientists are finding.   The scientists held a seminar in Napier to find middle ground between farmers who want economic growth and environmentalists who want to stop farm pollution.
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By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Jun. 13--A program that had its beginnings in Fresno County may enable people across the country to start small farms of their own.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Drought Affects Half Million Hectares of Cropland in East China" - Xinhua headline]  Jinan, Feb.
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One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn't thought of: Check Pennsylvania's maps for what's called a co-op farm. It's not a commune, it's a farm which offers up it's land to the public for hunting.  What the Farmer Gets  If the hunters are decent-folk, they generally clean up the trash off the property. I personally built a blind out of rocks I happened to find in a fallow field to give me something to sit on and a hiding place. The blind is next to a power utility pole, so it gives me a great shot at birds coming in slowly to land on the wires. He got his field cleaned essentially for free since I also picked up trash. I don't want my game animals eating garbage.  The other bonus the farmer enjoys is limited crop losses to wildlife. This particular farmer was doing the soy-corn-fallow crop rotation which is pretty typical Pennsylvania crop rotation. Doves love this stuff and eat it up. Probably about 2/3rds of the doves I cleaned had corn in their crop.  What the Hunters Get  A place to hunt with a ton of acreage devoted to what essentially amounts to bait.
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At 18, Andrew Orr is one of the youngest farmers in the country. While his friends sit in Macroeconomics 101, he grows corn.
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DWIGHT, Illinois  - Illinois farmer Rick Parker was busy spraying his crops with pesticide this week but weeds were not his biggest worry as he surveyed his fields.
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Converting corn and soybeans into fuels is contributing to higher food prices. The dispute is how much.
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Poor farmersâ simple methods have helped lead to millions of newly tree-covered acres in a dust-choked region.