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...mutually beneficial partnerships - still in its infancy - will continue to suffer missteps and setbacks, not the least of which include the present U.S. Administration's uninformed and shortsighted policies. My hope for the future lies in the goals, purposes and accomplishments of the U.N. Peg Maher Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S. I applaud Krauthammer's realistic take on the North Korean issue - that a "dynamic, capitalist, reunited Korea" would be stiff competition for a China that aspires to impose its will on East Asia, hence Beijing keeps its unruly neighbor alive and refuses to support tough U.N. sanctions against North Korea...
...nation's major pig-producing states are North Carolina, Iowa and Nebraska. Arizona has only one industrial pork operation, Pigs for Farmer John, a subsidiary of Hormel Foods Corp., which ships a quarter-million animals to slaughter each year and houses, on any given day, about 13,500 pregnant sows. The gestation crates, according to a spokesman for Pigs for Farmer John, keep the sows safe from other pigs and allow individual feeding and care. Prop 204 opponents, led by Jim Klinker of the Arizona Farm Bureau Federation, have erected billboards around the state dissing the initiative as "hogwash." Outside...
...MAHER Cedar Rapids, Iowa...
...It’s like giving someone a respirator instead of clean natural air. Organic farming avoids this because “the organic farmer has more of an incentive to focus on soil nutrients [through crop rotation],” according to Michael Duffy, an agricultural economist at Iowa State University...
...yielded a commensurate increase in food production. Rather, chemical advances have lowered present costs for farmers and saddled society with a burdensome environmental debt. Much of U.S. agriculture could be done organically at the same levels of output. Organic corn and soybean yields per acre in Iowa, according to Duffy, are even greater than conventional ones...