The Senate Agriculture Committee today passed its version of the 2013 Farm Bill by a 15-5 vote. Voting against the bill were Senators Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky), Mike Johanns (R-Nebraska), Pat Roberts (R-Kansas), John Thune (R-South Dakota) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York). In 2012, Gillibrand and McConnell (by proxy) voted against the bill. They were joined in 2012 by Senators Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi), Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia) and John Boozman (R-Arkansas). The latter three, with the Southern commodity programs addressed more to their liking in this year's bill, voted for the blueprint today.Gillibrand did not offer her dairy amendment to strike the controversial supply control requirement under the Dairy Market Stabilization A...
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...
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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...
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Forecasting developments in production agriculture
On behalf of a private U.S. agricultural technology provider, WPI’s team generated an econometric model to forecast the movement of concentrated corn production north and west from the traditional U.S. Corn Belt. WPI’s model has subsequently provided quantitative support to a multi-million-dollar investment into short-season corn variety development. WPI’s methodology included a series of interviews with regional grain elevators and seed consultants. Emphasizing outreach and communication with stakeholders who possess intimate sectoral knowledge – on-the-ground insights – is a regular component of WPI’s methodologies, made possible by WPI’s ever-growing network of industry contacts.