What are some recent agricultral issues.? read details please?

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What are some recent agricultural issues.?
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Answer 1

The first thing that comes to mind is the manufacturing of corn for use of E85 ethanol for energy in cars. This is huge because it would mean a major shift in production, mostly by expansion of crops. This could also cause a rise in foods that require corn, such as corn starch (sugars) and other things corn is in.

Answer 2

Current issues in agriculture:
~ erosion and soil degradation and salination.
~ The commoditization of agri products making the prices so low, the government HAS to subsidize farming, because it is NOT a lucrative business
~ the use of petroleum-based pesticides and fertilizers - the growing cost of using these products as well as the growing concern for environmental and health damages by using chemicals to produce natural food.
~ the drive towards a return to organic farming
~ irrigation methods (or lack there of) and the move towards no-till farming to reduce water vaporization and erosion
~ this mis-belief in society that E85 ethanol fuel will reduce our demand for foreign oil - if you took 100% of the US crop land and moved it to producing corn for E85, it would still only supply 10% of the US fuel consumption for automobiles - but it would wipe OUT FOOD PRODUCTION for the US and all the countries we export to (the short end of the story here... E85 is NOT the answer!)

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Answer 3

1. Frankenfoods. People don't want to eat "transgenic" genetically engineered plants. There was a big flap a year or so ago about genetically engineered corn getting into taco shells, when that particular strain of corn had not been approved for human consumption.

2. Patenting of seeds. A farmer saved some of his crop to plant the next year. Monsanto said he couldn't do that without paying the licensing fee for their particular strain, and filed a lawsuit.

Answer 4

i don't know if this will work but remember last month when those people ate the spinach and got sick from it. its called E coli and i have bunch of websites for you first one talks about e coli the others talk about the incident. hope this helps

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/escherichiacoli_g.htm
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/spinach-merchants.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6084158
http://www.keynews.org/archive2/ecoli0906.htm