The United States has nearly 8000 feedlots each producing 20,000 gallons of manure a day. What happens to all of the manure? The ways a large portion of feedlots manage the manure and subsequent green…
Farming
Factory farming is a modern style of agriculture in which livestock such as cattle, pigs, or chickens are housed in small cages called battery cages to supply human food demands. To reduce operating c…
"An estimated 870 million people still lack sufficient caloric intake, while a billion or more suffer from micronutrient deficiencies. Another 1.4 billion suffer from being overweight or obesity" (Dob…
Oxford Languages defines farming as, "the activity or business of growing crops and raising livestock." Farming seems like a no-brainer nowadays. Yet, for 100,000 years homo sapiens were hunters and g…
The very common grain, corn, is something that we humans have not only consumed for thousands of years, but also have produced a substantial amount of. With corn being the primary U.S. feed grain, it …
Corn is a very valuable crop used in everyday life. Corn is a plant with many varieties grown in the U.S. Corn, also known as maize, is an adaptable plant species native to the United States. Corn has…
Our nation is a very diverse and great national trade power, with many industries and resources across our country, but monoculture is detrimental to our economy and livelihood. From chemicals killing…
One of the earliest innovation of humankind is corn (Gewin, 2003). The scientific name of corn is Zea mays, Zea is a Greco-Latin name that stands for a wheat-like grain and mays is a Taino word meanin…
Climate change is a problem that is not unheard of, yet people all over the world are doing minimal things to slow this issue down. Although most people know that it will affect wildlife and other liv…
Today, more than 7 billion humans are living in this world and that number will continue to increase each second. We, humans, need so many things to live. Demand for necessities such as food, water, c…