For 47 years, Marikay Shellman has been hopping irrigation ditches at Magpie Acres, her 40-acre farm outside of Bayfield.
The maze of ditches snake around her pastures. Shellman still flood-irrigates.
Dr Ramesh Chand, Member, NITI Aayog Forestry is part of agriculture and allied sectors which comprise four segments namely, crops, livestock, fishery and forestry. Out of these, first three segments have witnessed sort of revolution like green revolution, white revolution, and blue revolution etc. This resulted in more than 3.05 per cent annual growth in their output during in the last 50 years. However, output of forestry increased by mere 0.54% per year which is not even one third of growth rate in population. This has very serious economic and ecological implications. Per capita availability of wood and wood products produced in the country followed a steep decline and India had to meet large part of domestic demand for wood and products from imports. Insignificant growth in forestry also mean little growth in environment and ecology friendly production. This has far reaching implications for carbon sequestration, water balance and health of natural eco system. Output of forestry co
By John Clayton Poweshiek County Soil & Water Commissioner This is in response to Iowa Agriculture Secretary Mike Naig remarks in the Des Moines Register article titled: “Some Iowa farmers back crop buffer law to protect streams.” The Ag Sec opposes a regulation to protect streams with buffers. [Secretary] Naig said, “It’s counter to our.
The practice of agroforestry, from a broad perspective, is farming with trees, but looking at it more closely, it’s a land management system that capitalizes on the biological interconnectedness of trees, crops and livestock to create thriving ecosystems.
The stereotypical picture of American farmland probably looks a lot like this: rolling hills lined with rows upon rows of singular crops, perfectly spaced