While more than 40 farm and commodity groups in the Farm Bill Now coalition rally for congressional action on a farm bill, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) has created its own plan for a farm bill. The AEI's plan is based on the following arguments:
Farm programs channel 80 percent of that money to less than 200,000 large, generally very wealthy farms at roughly $400,000 per large farm over the five-year period. These larger farm households are much wealthier than the average taxpayer, typically with a net worth in the millions. They have much larger incomes, averaging around $135,000 a year and have very little debt, with the average farm's debt-to-asset ratio less than 9 percent. For the past seven years, almost all U.S. fa...
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...
