Word: alfalfas
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...disappear off the coast of Savannah and ducks disappear from the Eastern flyway. He plans to turn his Flying D ranch near Bozeman into what amounts to a privately owned national park: he has sold all the cattle, uprooted miles of barbed-wire fence, let pastures of hay and alfalfa return to native grasses and started raising a herd of buffalo he hopes will swell...
...Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne and seven other men died in a plane crash, after which local people carried pieces off for keepsakes. A woman tells him about running a health-food restaurant in a little burg called Cottonwood Falls: "We never did get the farmers to eat alfalfa sprouts. They know silage when they...
Secularism, Religion and Alfalfa...
...history, and English, Fauth's life involved a lot of juggling; at the end of each school day he returned home to his father, a priest, and a household in which the number one priority was God. His home life mainly involved worship and working on his family's alfalfa farm...
Some of the distressed farmers are suffering because they have planted thirsty crops -- rice, cotton, alfalfa -- that would not be economical to grow in the first place if water cost more. Farmers also typically use the most wasteful method of irrigation: ditches. The drip method, which supplies water in needed quantities to each plant, uses about 20% less water than ditches, but as long as water is cheap, farmers have no reason to spend the money to install drip systems. Says Richard Howitt, professor of agricultural economics at the University of California at Davis: "We should be treating water like...