Content tagged with “agriculture”

“ A detailed history of how a destructive pest was neutralized through sicence and geography. ”

“ For decades, the United States has regularly dropped hundreds of millions of sterilized insects from planes over Central America to prevent a scourge from migrating north. ”

“ Breeding chili peppers for hotness has resulted in the hottest food known to man, yet people some people just love to eat them. ”

“National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry is a social/community organization that promotes farming and agriculture. Members join local chapters which are part of the national organization headquartered in Washington DC. The national organization lobbies the government on farming issues….”

“This is a plant (usually a flower) that turns itself to face the sun as it moves across the sky. ‘Helio’ is Greek for ‘sun’ and ‘trope’ is derived from the Greek word for ‘turn.’ However, the effect is more accurately known as ‘phototropism,’ because the flowers are actually tracking light , not…”

“ An explanation of the long string of people and processes it takes to produce a cup of coffee. ”

“ In the 1860s, several nations went to war over bat poop. ”

“ A bull from the 1960s was patriarch over a lineage of millions. It carried a faulty gene that wasn’t discovered for 40 years after hundreds of millions of dollars had been lost. ”

“ Interesting statistics and trends on the rise of ‘alt-beef’ and how it might challenge and topple real beef in the years to come. The statistics on how many feed calories, water, and land area it takes to generate beef are eye-opening. ”