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Future Farm: A Sunless, Rainless Room Indoors

DEN BOSCH, Netherlands -- Farming is moving indoors, where the sun never shines, where rainfall is irrelevant and where the climate is always right. The perfect crop field could be inside a windowless building with meticulously controlled light, temperature, humidity, air quality and nutrition. It could be in a New York...

US Expects Bigger Corn Crop to Ease Food Inflation

ST. LOUIS -- U.S. farmers are expected to boost the size of this year's corn crop, potentially easing global food inflation. The Agriculture Department reports that farmers intend to plant 92.2 million acres of corn this spring, a 5 percent increase over last year. That would make it the second-biggest corn crop since...

Police: Body, Ailing People Found Near Pest-Control Truck

Authorities in Florida are trying to figure out why a body was hidden in the back of a pesticide truck parked along an interstate in West Palm Beach. A father and his young son were found alive near the truck and suffering from exposure to a toxic chemical, police said. The case began to unfold early Monday, when...

Farmers Deposit Seeds in Arctic Doomsday Vault, Patrolled by Polar Bears

Farmers from Australia are the latest donors to a polar bear-patrolled Arctic doomsday vault that stores seeds as insurance against an international food emergency. The Svalbard Global Seed Vault, a converted mine, is located about 800 miles from the North Pole in Arctic Norway. An Australian delegation of farmers and...

In Hard Times, States Still Spend to Protect Farms

HAMDEN, Conn. -- Despite tough financial times following the worst recession in decades, some states continue to spend millions of dollars to preserve American farmland and stem its rapid loss to development and suburban sprawl. Advocates say the preservation efforts are needed to ensure food is available locally if...

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George Siemon: Nature Is Our Teacher: A Social Experiment Disguised as a Business

Receiving the Growing Green Award from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) for my leadership role in Organic Valley is especially rewarding since I have spent my life connecting food with the protection of our natural resources.

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Andrea Riccardi: G8 Summit: Putting Food on the Table Through Investing in Small Farmers

Today, hunger stalks the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, while some parts of the African continent cope with conflict and civil unrest.

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05/31/12 SETI In Trouble: Search For Alien Life Hurt By Search... Source: Silicon Valley Watcher (Jill Tarter ponders the uncertain future for Alien search project SETI.)
05/31/12 Bill Nye, the Science Guy and CEO of the Planetary... Source: SETI Institute Mountain View, California âBill Nye, famed as television's "Science Guy," will join scientists, writers, artists and sci-fi stars at SETIcon II, hosted by the SETI Institute.
05/31/12 Meteorite Reveals Clues in Search for Life on Mars Source: Live Science A meteorite that fell to Earth more than 40 years ago is helping scientists unlock clues regarding the makeup of Mars' atmosphere and its potential implications to help shape future missions to search for evidence of life on the Red Planet, a new study finds.
05/31/12 Arctic bacteria help find life on Jupiter's Icy Moon Source: New Kerala Dot Com It is not easy to search for life on one of Jupiter's icy moons: Europa as just getting there can be a problem.
05/31/12 SpaceX cargo ship leaves orbit on way back to Earth Source: PhysOrg.com 14 hours ago Forewarned, i'm super layman.

Background on agriculture

Agriculture (also called farming or husbandry) is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi, and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life.

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