agriculture

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Agriculture

The science of taming the land to grow crops and raise animals for food, clothing or other products.

agriculture

the cultivation of the soil for any aspect of farming or horticulture.

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Rosco Vaughn, executive director of the National Council for Agriculture Education, was one of those on the taskforce committee, and he notes that retention of our agriculture teachers is also an issue of concern.

Cultivating an Interest in Teaching Agriculture

To bypass this predicament, Indian Line and Temple Wilton Farms borrowed from the European and Japanese models in 1986 to establish the first two American Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs.

Diamonds in the Dirt?

For just about every labor standard in the book, agriculture is exempt.

Caution: children at work

Neither Neth nor McMurry, however, regard the capitalization of northern agriculture as inevitable.

Preserving the Family Farm: Women, Community, and the Foundations of Agribusiness in the Midwest, 1900-1940

NewSeed Advisors is an integrated investment banking and management consulting practice for sustainable agriculture ventures ranging from start-ups establishing their business to growth-stage companies seeking strategic partnerships.

Agriculture 2.0TM Global Markets: Global Summit on Sustainable Agriculture Investment

The utilization of agriculture related software applications through smartphones would lay the foundation of smart agriculture and bring modernity to agriculture practices.

110,000 farmers to get smartphones with agri-specific applications

Also elected to NASDAs Board of Directors were New Mexico Secretary of Agriculture Jeff Witte (Vice President), Michigan Director of Agriculture Jamie Clover Adams (Second Vice President), and Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles (Secretary-Treasurer).

United States : NASDA Elects Reviczky of Connecticut President

A Rabi Kissan Mela was also organized at University of Agriculture, Faisalabad where in addition to stalls, agriculture department's float was there to make farming community aware of the use of social media for agriculture information dissemination.

Agri department prepares to interact with farmers on social media

195 trillion or about 2 percent went to agriculture.

Bank motivation for agriculture lending

The reason explained in this regard by the officials is decisions relating to import and export of agriculture commodities, policy making for agriculture sector, incentivisation of agriculture sector on equal basis conducting research extension of this research to farmers needs it to maintain agriculture subject at federal level.

Devolution of agri subject still hanging

Noted economist and Washington observer, Jim Wiesemeyer, will set the stage for our look at the Global Forces Shaping Agriculture as he explains the interaction of these global forces and Washington's reaction.

Agribusiness Forum: November 14-15, 2006 * Kansas City * Hyatt Regency Crown Center

Until now, convincing evidence for ancient agriculture came only from the Middle East (SN: 10/28/00, p.