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» What Is the Best Way to Grow Tomatoes
By Jonathan Pitts | Published 07/2/2009 | Agriculture | Unrated

Do you want to eat tomatoes that grow in your own garden?


» Vegetables, Fruits, And Herbs: How To Grow Food Cheaply
By Earl L. Butz | Published 04/21/2008 | Agriculture | Unrated

A HOME GARDEN can provide a family with an abundant supply of high-quality vegetables, fruits, and herbs at low cost.


» Plants Defend Themselves Chemically
By Richard E. Lyng | Published 12/9/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

Plants contain and may subsequently release into the environment molecules that provide them with defenses against disease, nematodes, herbivores, and other plants.


» Plant Growth Regulators
By Richard E. Lyng | Published 12/9/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

Plant growth regulators are hormone-like chemicals that occur naturally in plants, and play a central role in their growth and development.


» Genetic Engineering Can Help Control Disease
By Richard E. Lyng | Published 12/8/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

Infectious diseases are still the main cause of illness and death in domestic livestock.


» Gender Preselection in Farm Animals
By Richard E. Lyng | Published 12/6/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

Every living being has a set of paired chromosomes, which carry all the genetic material necessary to maintain life and also to propagate new life.


» Biotechnology in Animal Reproduction
By Richard E. Lyng | Published 12/6/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

Animals pass on their genetic characteristics to the next generation via cells called gametes, sperm for the male and eggs or oocytes for the female.


» The Future of Biotechnology in Food Processing
By Richard E. Lyng | Published 12/6/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

By the year 2000 the worldwide market for biotechnology-derived food and agricultural products could be valued at tens to hundreds of billions of dollars.


» Improvements in Recycling Wood and Wood-Fiber Products
By Edward Madigan | Published 11/5/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

Since the turn of this century, the United States has been dubbed by some "the throw-away society," and it generates approximately 50 percent of the world's solid and industrial waste.


» The Lactaid Story
By Edward Madigan | Published 11/4/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

Dairy products are an important part of a healthy diet.


» Uses for Vegetable Oils
By Edward Madigan | Published 10/30/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

American agriculture produces over 16 billion pounds of vegetable oils each year.


» New Uses for Starch
By Edward Madigan | Published 10/30/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

Interest in natural products as annually renewable raw materials for industry has greatly intensified, especially during the past two decades.


» Farmers' Views on Growing Crops for Industrial Uses
By Edward Madigan | Published 10/29/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

Why do farmers grow something different from what they've been growing?


» Some of the World's Best Farmland Is Here
By Richard E. Lyng | Published 08/18/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

Soil quality is determined by its properties, characteristics, and conditions.


» Transformation of the Land in Colonial America
By Richard E. Lyng | Published 08/12/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

The earliest European settlers and the explorers who preceded them approached eastern North America with feelings of apprehension and optimism.


» Growing Vegetable Seeds for Sale
By Alfred Stefferud | Published 06/15/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

MEN WHO grow vegetable seeds for sale engage in a specialized and highly competitive farming operation.


» The Production of Grass Seeds
By Alfred Stefferud | Published 06/13/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

THE GROWERS of seed aim to grow good seed of species and varieties that are in demand and to achieve economical production.


» Producing Seed of Hybrid Corn and Grain Sorghum
By Alfred Stefferud | Published 06/13/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

AFTER 26 years or so of research, the first commercial hybrid corn seed for sale to farmers in any quantity was produced in Iowa in 1926.


» How Long Can a Seed Remain Alive?
By Alfred Stefferud | Published 05/26/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

PEOPLE USED to think that 150 years was about the maximum lifespan of the most durably viable seeds.


» Life Processes of the Living Seed
By Alfred Stefferud | Published 05/25/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

THE EMBRYO in a seed draws on its endosperm for the nutrients it needs to germinate and grow.


» Plants Must Disperse Their Seeds
By Alfred Stefferud | Published 05/24/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

NOT ALL SEEDS survive the struggle for existence. Any marked change in environment, moisture, temperature, amount of sunlight, or soil composition may create conditions...


» The Thread of Life Through Seeds
By Alfred Stefferud | Published 05/24/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

THE ORIGIN of each new seed-bearing plant traces back to the time of flowering.


» How Seeds Are Formed
By Alfred Stefferud | Published 05/20/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

The stamen produces pollen grains that later form the male cells, or sperms. The stamen has a stalk, or filament, at the tip of which is the pollen sac, or anther.


» Natural Filtration for Aquaculture
By Frank Blumenthal | Published 02/27/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

Catfish production, clean water, and conservation farming go hand-in-hand in Mississippi agriculture.


» Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Countries-Challenges and U.S. Role
By Frank Blumenthal | Published 02/26/2007 | Agriculture | Rating:

Sustainable agriculture demands new efforts in research, development, and implementation.


» Alternative Fuel Sources
By Frank Blumenthal | Published 02/20/2007 | Agriculture | Unrated

President Bush declared that "Every American expects and deserves to breathe clean air... " Toward that end, agriculture has a crucial role to play.




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