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Marijuana For Medical Purposes Billion A Year
1,918 wordsPrior to the twentieth century, the marijuana plant (then more commonly referred to as hemp) was the single most important industrial plant, or non-food producing crop in America and the world (German 1990). Archeologists report that marijuana was possibly the first plant cultivated by humans. They estimate that date at approximately 8000 BC (Columbia University). As early as 4000 BC, pottery with marijuana markings and hemp textiles were found in North Central China. In those years, such things...
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Stalk Roll Shelling High Moisture Corn Losses
1,752 wordsDuring recent years, the use of high moisture grain has become more popular. This is due to the increased costs of handling and dry feed grains. For cattle feeders in particular, storing grains as high moisture. This is one practice that can improve their competition. Using high moisture grain allows greater opportunity to design a system that will minimize harvest, storage and feed processing costs. Grains such as wheat have been stored as high moisture, but corn is the principal high moisture ...
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The Central Valley Agricultural Coalition
1,309 words... to the houses) would be about $ 6500 -$ 9000 for a half an acre property, and $ 5000 -$ 7500 for one quarter of an acre. This is just an estimate according to Tom Kelley, (see bibliography). Our second proposal involves desalinization. Desalinization is the process of making salt water into good drinking water. Renewing U. S. leadership on desalinization technology will yield untold benefits, a quote from Paul Simeon says that we are running out of water, but look, 80 % of the world is cover...
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Tons Per Acre Fresh Market Cucumbers Cucumber
1,230 wordsAbstract This paper will Cucumbers Cucumbers Abstract This paper will focus on cucumbers. It will discuss their relationship to other plants, the region of its origin and the plant part used by humans. The way cucumbers are harvested and the value of the harvest will also be touched on. Diseases and insects that threaten cucumbers will briefly be discussed. Introduction From the times of the bible through Henry VIII reign and into the modern era, cucumbers have survived through the ages. Cucumbe...
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South Side North Side
3,449 wordsThe experiments Damian Bluff Introduction The experiments that were carried out on Damian Bluff were to use plot method calculations, and quarter method calculations to find out what species of trees are in the area and how to characterize each tree. The plot method was used to produce an ecological importance value for each species. The quarter method is a type of pilotless methods. The trees were observed to find out what kind they were. The experiments were carried out on both the north and t...
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Lending Institutions Developing Countries
2,422 wordsFarm real estate values have increased continuously from 1987 to 1998, significantly improving the financial position of many farm businesses. But for the first time in over a decade farm real estate prices have begun to fall, due in part to record breaking yields for crops and extremely low commodity prices. I believe the value of farmland has increased at too fast a pace in relationship to value of farm production and is facing a major market adjustment. The farm real estate market saw its las...
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George Washington Four Times
833 wordsHemp: The Truth About the Earths Greatest Plant In a perfect world there would be a product that could serve as a fuel source, a food source, a paper source, a textile source, and this product would be easy to produce in any of its forms. Believe it or not such a product does exist; it is the plant known as hemp. No tree or plant species on earth has the commercial, economic, and environmental potential of hemp. Over 30, 000 known products can be manufactured from hemp. Hemp was a common crop gr...
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Wildlife Habitat National Forest
3,391 wordsIts a promising tool, this idea of prescribed burning to devel forests and help restore ecosystem health. But its risky business, too, and smoke clouds public acceptance. I THOUGHT FIRE SEASON HAD ENDED. BUT THE SCENT OF PINE SMOKE IN MY NOSTRILS LATE LAST OCTOBER TOLD ME SOMETHING DIFFERENT. Deep in Oregon's ponderosa paradise on Wine National Forest, my wife Maurine and I had just finished flagging a new interpretive trail as Forest volunteers. As we drove a remote road just east of Crater Lak...
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Grand Canyon Coal Burning
3,623 wordsCOLORADO RIVER PROJECT 1. The current problem is that a 1922 compact for dividing the Colorado River assumed it would flow nearly 17 million acre-feet per year to be divided between 7 states, 20 million people, and 2 million acres of farmland. Currently, the Colorado is flowing at only 9 million acre-feet per year. And 1. 5 million acre-feet are for Mexico every year. The upper basin states (Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, and Utah) believe that the lower basin states get too much of the water. T...
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