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Four Farmers Project: No Room for Error
One farmer hopes to make the biggest harvest of his life, but everything has to go right.
09.04.08
- Keywords
- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Diminishing Returns
Unless these farmers get a killer frost in the next two weeks, they’ll just barely make it to harvest.
08.28.08
- Keywords
- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: The Tragedy of the Commons
In the midst of the calm, two headlines illustrate the paradox of farming on the Great Plains.
08.21.08
- Keywords
- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Golden Opportunity
The plains are aflame with the gaudy spectacle of the sunflower bloom. But beneath it all, a war is going on.
08.15.08
- Keywords
- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: A Land of High Anxiety
This is a land where you can work hard from sunup to sunset and still have no control over Mother Nature.
08.08.08
- Keywords
- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Hail + Drift
Our farmers continue to sleep with one eye open to the nightmare rumble of late-night thunderstorms. Hail falls, pollen drifts, and a wandering bull heads west.
07.31.08
- Keywords
- sam hurst,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce,
- environment
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Dark Horizons
Human civilization has thrived in regions where climate has been steady and benign. But farming on the Great Plains is full of surprises.
07.24.08
- Keywords
- sam hurst,
- farms + fish,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce
magazine
To Bee or Not to Bee
The United States has more crops in need of pollination than it has honeybees to do the job. Now what?
August 2008
- Keywords
- heather smith,
- health + science,
- environment,
- agriculture,
- bees
food politics
Politics of the Plate: Breathing a Little Easier
The EPA finally enacts regulations on five common fumigants that kill virtually every living thing in the soil.
07.18.08
- Keywords
- barry estabrook,
- politics of the plate,
- food policy,
- farming,
- agriculture
food politics
Four Farmers Project: Black Gold
The Christensons grow food crops for fuel and are proud of it. The way they see it, their corn creates ethanol and still feeds people.
07.17.08
- Keywords
- sam hurst,
- farms + fish,
- four farmers project,
- agriculture,
- produce
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