Texas had the largest percent decrease of across all definitions of dairies

The National Agricultural Statistics Service , which conducts the Census, attempts to gather responses from every farm in the United States, where a farm is defined as, “is any place from which $1,000 or more of agricultural products were produced and sold, or normally would have been sold, during the census year.” NASS uses a complex…

Coragen and Macho insecticides were applied through the drip irrigation

Seedlings were grown for two weeks in a greenhouse with temperatures ranging between 22-35o C following a 12-hour lighting regiment emitted by high-pressure sodium light bulbs. Fertilizer, Nu-Crop , was incorporated in the irrigation water. After two weeks, seedlings were moved outside for three days to harden them to field conditions before transplanting. Seedlings were transplanted…

The winter preceding the 2017 growing season was the wettest on record

The two external sources — delivery and municipal — were consolidated into a single category . Because staff from the water quality control board were not able to corroborate the accuracy of reported data, enrollees may have classified water sources erroneously. A well placed in proximity to a stream, for example, might properly qualify as…

The advent of the Internet has done the most to democratize access to the means of representation

Popular culture, including novels, film, music, and television shows have also been important sites for representing the discourse of prohibition. In turn the drug policy reform movement has greatly expanded its ability to challenge the discourse of prohibition by using the Internet, a topic I turn to in greater detail in chapter three. Despite the earnest…