Bedrock Industry We Can Do Without ; Farming
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By Anna Lognonn  A CAMPAIGN to explain why farming is becoming more, not less, important to 21st Century Britain is being launched by the NFU today.
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Cottage industries, start your webcams.
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By Dennis Pollock, The Fresno Bee, Calif.  Dec. 7--The California Department of Pesticide Regulation has singled out two programs in the central San Joaquin Valley for their innovative approaches to farming in a more environmentally friendly way.
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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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The west is stripping the developing world of its talent. The pressures of ageing populations and the need to be at the frontier of technological change has meant skilled labour is in short supply, so raiding
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A move to end subsidies and offer a buyout will aid big growers and cause smaller ones to give up their fields.
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John Deere could be the anchor your portfolio needs.
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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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By Dan Buglass rural affairs editor  THE days when farmers paid scant regard to the environment and their custody of the countryside are long gone.
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By Martin Shipton  An end to offshore sand dredging could lead to quarrying in some of Wales's most beautiful landscapes, environmentalists have been warned.
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A farmer and the State of California reached a deal that will prevent two large industrial dairy operations from being built near the site of the stateâs only town founded and operated by African-Americans.
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Forget Big Oil. In 2008, Big Ag is where to plant your flag.
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Conservation only starts at home. Now businesses are trying to do something about wasted energy at work too
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Number of bat deaths poses a problem for an industry that sells itself as an environmentally friendly alternative to conventional power plants.
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Ignoring the potential of small companies can hurt your returns.
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By Teresa Lewi, The Baltimore Sun  Jun. 13--When Helen Tuel left her job as a dental hygienist in the early 1980s, she decided to become a farmer. Instead of raising livestock or growing crops, she decided to try a now-popular alternative called agritourism.
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Farming, labour and consumer associations are calling for national standards to prevent farm workers from being exploited.