Farming

Contract farming (1)
Extensive farming (1)
Indoor farm (7)
Intensive farming (15)
Vertical farming (30)

Synopsis: 2.0.. agro: Farming:

Yet most fish farming has evolved not beyond the low-tech cages and seaweed-draped lines anchored in shallow seas by ancient peoples like the Tankas.

But the drawbacks of current fish farming has created opportunities for technology like the floating"drifter pens  pioneered by Kampachi Farms.

Yet despite the invention of farming, eventually all of these early cities fell into disrepair, their decaying fortified walls

Within just the past 10 years, an increasing interest in city farming has been paralleled by the creation of the slow food and locallly sourced,

but they could also operate without the pollution associated with outdoor farming. Already, we have large-scale indoor farms such as Eurofresh Farms in Willcox, Arizona (318 acres (1. 3 square km) of one-storey-high hydroponic greenhouses

supplying fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and Farmedhere in Bedford Park, Illinois, a 90,000 square-foot (8, 360 square metre) empty warehouse several storeys tall that was converted into an indoor farm producing tilapia (freshwater fish), a variety of leafy green vegetables,

and several value-added products. Indoor farms (controlled environment agriculture or CEA) will undoubtedly replace most outdoor urban agricultural initiatives as the advantages of farming within protected environments become more widely accepted.

Judging by current trends in the development of advanced technologies, city-based CEA appears to have a bright future,

as newer strategies emerge enabling indoor farming to be carried with increasing efficiency. Grow lights for instance, have evolved from ordinary fluorescent light fixtures oe expensive to operate oe into a series of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting schemes.

Although most current vertical farming operations have chosen to specialise in cash crops consisting of leafy green vegetables (easy to grow and much in demand), in the near future,

At that point, vertical farming in tall buildings will replace less productive single-story greenhouses as the source of all city-grown produce.

Some form of vertical farming now exists in Japan, Korea, Singapore, the United states, and Canada. New vertical farms are planned for a number of cities in the United states (Milwaukee, Memphis and Jackson Hole in Wyoming),

Tech fix for Africa's big farming challengebefore last year, George Wainaina's tiny shop selling agricultural goods

and the soils degraded by intensive farming. But safeguards in Europe, including using only a small amount of fertiliser where needed,

whether farming should be entirely organic and GM-free, or entirely industrial-scale with the efficiencies of synthetic tools, my response is that it will be all of these things.

and in eastern and Sub-saharan africa, the way to impact the vast majority of human beings is through farming,

We are funny little farming company in Kenya that's launching a mobile tool that we believe is going to bring back the basics of a market-driven, demand economy.

a rapid increase in human activity driven by population expansion, globalisation, technological and communications improvement, improved farming methods and medical advances.

Soil erosion, which is driven by humans through farming or livestock grazing, has played a big role in the decline of entire civilisations,

A raft of practices oe from deforestation for land clearance to the types of intensive farming that exhausts nutrients or make the soil too salty for crops oe contribute to depleted soils.

 Some academics and sustainable farming advocates see this type of farming as one more push toward industrialising food production and making more farmers dependent on agribusiness.

but also from other sources such as pesticides and fertilisers used in farming and pollutants from industry,

But, as one British paper hailed the announcement as the most significant breakthrough in wheat farming for 10,000 years,

marketing and distribution networks that once made small farming viable but disintegrated in the last 30 years as U s. agriculture went through a dramatic consolidation.

marketing and distribution networks that once made small farming viable but disintegrated in the last 30 years as U s. agriculture went through a dramatic consolidation.

all signs of an India undergoing an enormous economic shift from farming to skilled labor.

This is exactly the premise that is driving many of the advances in farming today. To understand agribusiness in the future,

Vertical Farmingthe precision we use to monitor consumer demand will translate into ultra-precise farming operations in highly controlled environments.

Several experimental vertical farming projects like Dr. Dickson Despommiers at Columbia University are in various conceptual and experimental stages of implementation.

The concept of vertical farming that I envision has been framed around the idea of creating both below-surface and above-surface silos serving as vertical greenhouses for the production of food.

and external wind generators for power, these self-contained farming silos can be constructed in desolate climates, deserts, on rocky ground,

Certainly there are those who argue that vertical farming is pie in the sky, and that expensive urban real estate should be saved for people,

Organic dairy farming costs more than conventional farming for many reasons. Farmers must keep their animals on pasture

Mr. Siemon said that a handful of Organic Valley s dairy farmers had switched back to conventional farming this year,

Hyper-Local Urban Farming Going Underground A few years ago, a study by the Leopold Center for Sustainable agriculture at Iowa State university reported that between 1980 and 2001,

Clone Ranchers Raising blank#humans will be similar in many respects to cattle ranching. But once a clone is selected

#Final Thoughts Farming currently has far too many variables. The precision that farmers use to control the planting

whether Podponics truly represents a green approach to urban farming. They use copious amounts of electricity, of course,

There are many approaches to urban farming, but the idea of Podponics is one of the best ones that is actually ready for large scale ramp up now.

it will be aimed at solving one of farmings most persistent problems: the scarcity of help. When you talk about good farm help these days,

and we understand that farming is all about production, whether corn sells for $3 per bushel or $7,

a sunless, rainless room indoors Gertjan Meeuws of Plantlab Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines,

Dickson Despommier, a retired Columbia University professor of environmental health and author of the 2010 book The Vertical Farm,#began working on indoor farming as a classroom project in 1999,

and the idea has spread to several startup projects across the U s. Over the last five year urban farming has gained really traction,#

While farming would have made food plentiful, focussing on a smaller number of foodstuffs could have caused vitamin and mineral deficiencies that stunted growth.

On Tuesday evening we had packed a audience at the Davinci Institute to discuss the future of micro farming.

Our micro-agronomy community will be comprised of people who believe that small-scale farming has the potential to change in the future

Farming is tied to our happiness, well being and the good life. Will it always be just that memory of a day on the farm

who are part of the Universitys Nafferton Ecological Farming Group and its Human Nutrition Centre, looked at the quality of 88 different milks in supermarkets across North East England at varying times of year over a two-year period.

Singapore is taking local farming to the next level by opening of its first commercial vertical farm.

Vertical farming is like skyscrapers with vegetables climbing along the windows or like a library-sized greenhouse with racks of cascading vegetables instead of books.

Entrepreneur Jack Ng says he can produce five times as many vegetables as regular farming looking up instead of out.

say vertical farming has a handful of advantages over other forms of urban horticulture. More plants can squeeze into tight city spaces,

But is vertical farming just a design fad, or could it be the next frontier of urban agriculture?

vertical farming might be the most viable option. Singapore could be a special case, where land value is so exceptional high,

try farming Sustainable farming, which often ties into organic growing, has been reaping profits. Last week, in an auditorium at the UCLA Anderson School of management, startup companies sought out investors to help take their ideas to the next level.

Venture capitalists were here to check out sustainable farming. In the next 40 years there s going to be a 70 percent increase in demand for food worldwide,

#Sustainable farming, which often ties into organic growing, has been reaping profits. The USDA recently released the results of its first ever survey of the organic farming industry,

Over the last few years, sustainable farming startups have managed to get loans from companies like Whole Foods,

#Grund calls Sharon Springs a very small farming and ranching community. I do own animals.

the thresher brought more industrialization to farming, allowing for the mechanized separation of grain from stalks from husks.

the environmental impact of large-scale conventional farming and the potential public health threat if antibiotic-resistant bacterial genes jumped to human pathogens.

Factory Farming, a Relatively Recent Disaster Cheapening our food supply in such a real way has caused also undue harm to the animals that fall victim to our twisted pricing.

Factory farming, whether we like it or not, has come to stay. The tide will not be held back,

No matter how sustainable the farming is, if the food s not getting eaten, it s not sustainable and it s not a good use of our resources,#Dana Gunders, a sustainable agriculture specialist at the NRDC, said at the Reuters Summit.

and farming in the U s. Monsanto acknowledges it thought weeds would never develop resistance to Roundup.

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The idea of farming in space is hardly a new one. Astronaut Don Pettit successfully grew a zucchini, broccoli,

Lettuce is an ideal choice for this project to figure out what s possible with space farming,

The automation of farming has led to fewer people tending massive estates, with many growing to tens of thousands of acres.

Yet despite the invention of farming, eventually all of these early cities fell into disrepair, their decaying fortified walls

Within just the past 10 years, an increasing interest in city farming has been paralleled by the creation of the slow food and locallly sourced, or#oelocavore#movements

but they could also operate without the pollution associated with outdoor farming. Indoor cultivation is not just for plants;

Already, we have large-scale indoor farms such as Eurofresh Farms in Willcox, Arizona (318 acres (1. 3 square km) of one-storey-high hydroponic greenhouses), supplying fresh tomatoes

360 square metre) empty warehouse several storeys tall that was converted into an indoor farm producing tilapia (freshwater fish), a variety of leafy green vegetables,

Indoor farms (controlled environment agriculture or CEA) will undoubtedly replace most outdoor urban agricultural initiatives as the advantages of farming within protected environments become more widely accepted.

as newer strategies emerge enabling indoor farming to be carried with increasing efficiency. Grow lights, for instance, have evolved from ordinary fluorescent light fixtures expensive to operate into a series of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting schemes.

Although most current vertical farming operations have chosen to specialise in cash crops consisting of leafy green vegetables (easy to grow and much in demand

At that point, vertical farming in tall buildings will replace less productive single-story greenhouses as the source of all city-grown produce.

Some form of vertical farming now exists in Japan, Korea, Singapore, the United states, and Canada. New vertical farms are planned for a number of cities in the United states (Milwaukee, Memphis and Jackson Hole in Wyoming),

#The Untold Story of Africa s Farming Boom Tens of thousands are returning home with money

but it s worth it to help Ghana leapfrog to the forefront of innovative farming.#

I could understand from the ground up the new forces at work in rural Africa and in farming and agribusiness in the region.

#2. Farming is now cool Farming in Africa is not only profitable, it s become popular.

now extol farming as a path to prosperity. Nigeria s former president Olusegun Obasanjo has campaigned for progressive farming practices,

The flood of well-educated people going into farming has sped up the absorption of new technology across the board.

First, the existing foreign-owned plantations in Africa have tended to under-perform small-scale family farms on a per-acre basis, partly because of the relatively high costs of mechanized farming and farm labor.

so any uptick in usage could lead to enormous gains Two of the most important technologies in farming are irrigation and fertilizers,

#Already, evidence is overwhelming that farming in Africa, if less productive than other places, has entered a bountiful new phase.

what we have We could double our food supply just by making farming, shipping, and cooking more efficiently.

This includes a greater emphasis on urban agriculture such as vertical farming which, properly designed and planned, could provide the sustainable means to improve food supply we need.

Vertical farming is promising because it requires no soil, and can save space and energy and improve crop yield.

Singapore has taken local urban farming to a high level Skygreens has built the world s first commercial vertical farm in large three-story greenhouses, providing a sustainable source

The cost of growing Vertical farming s biggest limitation is energy consumption. Considerable energy is required to power a closed, indoor greenhouse facility s artificial lighting, heating and cooling

Vertical farming: A natural extension of urban agriculture, vertical farms would cultivate plant or animal life within dedicated

Clone Ranchers Raisingblank humans will be similar in many respects to cattle ranching. But once a clone is selected,

the powerful influence of farming and food lobbies and a large gap in public awareness of what constitutes a healthy diet.

Extreme farming, where the wordhorizontal is no longer in their dictionary!..Chimp smoking a cigarette! Is there no limit to the tobacco companies sleaziness in finding new markets?..

Aquaponics One up-and-coming idea for sustainable food production is based actually on an ancient concept called aquaponics a system that combines fish farming with plant farming in water.

Vertical farming Given the scarcity of new agricultural land to grow food some have proposed taking farming into the sky:

However the idea of vertical farming has not been proven. And some researchers have argued that the cost of lighting indoor vertical farms would be too expensive according to a 2010 Economist article.

 In the last 20 years the forests of the upper headwaters of the Xingu have been cleared for cattle ranching

now that shortly after the introduction of farming in Central europe all hunter-gatherers kind of vanished said study co-author Ruth Bollongino an archaeogeneticist at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Germany.

Fishers and farmers Of the skeletons they analyzed all five of the most ancient samples came from a genetic lineage associated with pre-farming hunter-gatherers.

Neolithic farmers were dominant for 2500 years after the introduction of farming from the Middle east though the new data can't reveal

In all likelihood hunter-gatherers must have retreated to areas that were less suitable for farming

Later Scandinavian hunter-gatherers gradually assimilated into Neolithic farming culture probably because the nomadic way of life became too difficult to sustain as farmers continued their expansion.

#Ancient Traces of Terrace Farming Found Near Petra The ancient city of Petra which was carved into the desert cliffs of modern-day Jordan might look inhospitably bone-dry today

since before farming began. In developing nations it brings suffering and death. In wealthier countries like the United states it brings economic devastation

The change is due to several key farming practices including cover cropping and no-till farming

No-till farming according to NRDC's analysis could have saved potentially the FCIP $223 million in payouts in 2010 alone.

The FCIP can help farmers transition to less risky farming by becoming a true risk-management policy instead of a crutch.

(and can according to existing law) offer lower rates to farmers who embrace low-risk water-smart practices like cover cropping no-till farming and more efficient irrigation.

in order to demonstrate some opposition to factory farming or perhaps to all of animal agriculture. Can you think of any action more inane and counterproductive?

#Can'Meatless Mondays'and Improved Farming Counter Climate Change?(Op-Ed) Geoff Orme-Evans is Public Policy Manager for Humane Society International (HSI.

Photos of Unmanned Aircraft Vast unknown The automation of farming has led to fewer farmers tending massive plots of land.

Causes of deforestation Deforestation is done typically to make more land available for housing and urbanization timber large scale cash crops such as soy and palm oil and cattle ranching.

#Evidence of Ancient Farming in Iran Discovered Agriculture may have arisen simultaneously in many places throughout the Fertile Crescent new research suggests.

It's more of a typical urban farming settlement and there was a symbiotic relationship between the two robably he said.

Huge soy and corn crops displace a more naturally diverse farming system one that uses fewer resources is more sustainable in the long term

#Holy land Farming Began 5, 000 Years Earlier Than Thought AVDAT Israel For thousands of years different groups of people have lived in the Negev desert building stone walls

To investigate where the Maya did their heaviest farming around Tikal Balzotti and fellow researchers looked for signatures of corn in the carbon isotopes (carbon atoms with different molecular weights) of 185 soil cores.

Logging and farming also contribute to the continued destruction of the Amazon with one expert attributing up to 90 percent of all cleared land in the region to the expansion of Brazil's cattle ranching industry.

#Planting the Seed of Sustainable Farming: Op-Ed Suzy Friedman sustainable agriculture director for the Environmental Defense Fundâ contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices:

Those and other smarter farming methods including techniques used early in the growing cycle are reducing weather-related crop damage by as much as 25 percent in some areas ensuring that fewer crops are wasted

Coupling predictive analytics and modeling techniques with other sophisticated farming methods can prove to be quite beneficial

With no outlet and no water source except for farming run off the lake has been shrinking

what archaeologists call the Pre-classic period (1800 B c. to A d. 250) that permanent village life really took off. oereally effective farming in the sense that densely inhabited villages were to be found throughout the Maya area

Coe said farming became more effective during this period likely because of the breeding of more productive form of maize and perhaps more importantly the introduction of the oenixtamal process.

Examples of this would include more urban farming producing food in the same area that is consumed

Currently the United states treats 70 percent of its wastewater but uses only about 4 percent mostly for applications such as farming according to a study in the September issue of the journal of Agricultural Water Management.

Indoor farming is starting to transition from sci-fi to reality. At one of the first commercial vertical farms a Singapore-based company called Sky Greens grows about a half-ton of bok choy and cabbage in three-story greenhouse towers.

But today the Mayan forest is threatened once again this time by economic activities such as cattle ranching and agriculture.

Prehistoric people probably ate wild onions long before farming was invented. Onions may have been among the earliest cultivated crops.

and there probably isn t a simple Answer for example in Europe arable farming has a very long history

#Preindustrial Farming Sprouted Global Warming Early farmers boosted Earth's temperature by 1. 6 degrees Fahrenheit (0. 9 degrees Celsius) over a period of 8000 years

And to make a living my father had to practice the science of farming where rainfall is deficient.

Although our entire history in that place depended on farming within the climate's limits my father like his neighbors had grasped on to new technology allowing him to irrigate out of the vast but virtually nonrenewable Ogallala Aquifer.

but modern intensive farming methods quickly suck up phosphorus which needs to be replaced continually. If you keep growing high yield crops on land that is irrigated with water

As opportunistic omnivorous human beings we figured out a way to secure a food source through farming allowing us to move from mobile hunter-gatherer societies to ones that settled.

and a similar crop barley. 10 Things That Make Humans Special The cultures of China Talhelm first got the idea to study the effect of farming on Chinese culture while living in Guangzhou and teaching high school

which rice farming in the South transitions to wheat farming in the North. Rice farming is labor-intensive

and requires irrigation which forces a community to work together Talhelm said. Wheat farming on the other hand is a more individualistic pursuit.

if the cultures that evolved out of these two methods of farming might still persist.

It has lost more than 80 percent of its habitat to human development including ranching wild farms and oil and gas drilling.

This cooperative farming system known as subak dates to the 11th century and represents profound historical knowledge of the workings of Bali s agricultural ecosystem including how to deal with crop pests.

Planting the Seed of Sustainable Farming: Op-Ed Lansing has been studying subaks since the 1970s.

Factory farming has become too extreme and something must be done about it. Nestlã's new policies address several practices such as drugging

Global animal experts know that something is foul in factory farming whether it's confining animals to such extreme degrees mutilating them without pain relief

It is clearly not going to replace broad acre farming for wheat or potatoes or animal husbandry.

Improving crops through plant breeding has always been a core part of farming and gardening. Farmers would freely exchange their seed with others

In his 46 years of farming he's learned to stay on top of all the variables he has to juggle from international trade trends to new soybean-planting techniques.

The egg of a parasite that still infects people today was found in the burial plot of a child who lived 6200 years ago in an ancient farming community.

This includes a greater emphasis on urban agriculture such as vertical farming which properly designed and planned could provide the sustainable means to improve food supply we need.

Vertical farming is promising because it requires no soil and can save space and energy and improve crop yield.

Singapore has taken local urban farming to a high level Skygreens has built the world s first commercial vertical farm in large three-storey greenhouses providing a sustainable source of fresh vegetables.

Vertical farming s biggest limitation is energy consumption. Considerable energy is required to power a closed indoor greenhouse facility s artificial lighting heating and cooling and hydroponic or aeroponic growing systems.

#Birthplace of Chili pepper Farming Revealed Chili peppers reign as the world's most widely cultivated spice crop;

By drawing on genetic archaeological linguistic and ecological evidence the researchers found that chili farming was born in central-east Mexico.

Loss of habitat and agricultural environments as well as the widespread use of pesticides and chemicals in farming are believed to be contributing to the current bee crisis throughout the United states. The value of pollination to agriculture is estimated at more than $200 billion each year worldwide

#Soil-Free Farming Grows Vegetables in the Desert With average summer precipitation of about 1 inch (2. 5 centimeters) temperatures higher than 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees

Hydrogel film reduces the water required for farming by 90 percent and the fertilizer needed by 80 percent while increasing farm productivity by 50 percent overall according to Professor Mori.

Researchers investigating pollen records of Cahokia's farming and deforestation discovered distinctive evidence of the flood:

and how farming affected the region. Cahokia's location near the confluence of major rivers made it a popular waypoint for some 2000 years according to Munoz's study published April 10 in the journal Geology.

Farming and deforestation picked up again in the 1800s with the arrival of Europeans. Many theories have been offered for the city's abandonment such as climate change

and other herbicides and encouraging a more sustainable approach to farming can help ensure that the monarchs'astonishing migration will be an event that every generation can witness.

In 2013 the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research gave German researchers 3. 2 million euros (about $4. 2 million) to fund a sustainable farming project in the region.

and agricultural farming take place and where brown hyaena are persecuted. To gather information on the abundance of brown hyaena I turned to camera traps.

#Sustainable Ranching: Where Cows and Capybara Roam (Op-Ed) Julie Kunen is executive director for WCS's Latin america and Caribbean Program.

If there is one thing that Americans know about the environment of Brazil it is the decimation of Amazon forests for ranching and agriculture.

The traditional way of life in the Pantanal for nearly two centuries has been ranching. Typical ranches are quite large

But the traditional ranching system which depends upon large expanses of native grasslands is not sustainable on smaller and smaller parcels.

There are ways to preserve the traditional ranching way of life in the Pantanal that protect its magnificent wildlife populations.

Finally awareness of the unique success story that is traditional Pantanal ranching should encourage more visitors birders wildlife aficionados families interested in a ranch vacation to come.

What they will find will surely alter their perception of Brazil as a land known more for deforestation than sustainable ranching that supports rather than undermines the protection of local wildlife.

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