The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) yesterday sent a farm bill proposal to Capitol Hill. Its recommendations for the 2013 Farm Bill were based on "several core policy principles." According to the organization, its proposal does the following:
Offers producers a choice of program options; Protects and strengthens the federal crop insurance program; Provides a commodity title that works to encourage producers to follow market signals rather than making planting decisions in anticipation of government payments; Refrains from basing any program on cost of production; and, Ensures equity across program commodities.
As we reported on 5 March, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) re-scored the Senate and House versions of the...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
