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A Simple Fix for Farming IT’S becoming clear that we can grow all the food we need, and profitably, with far fewer chemicals. And I’m not talking about imposing some utopian vision of small organic farms on the world. Conventional agriculture can shed much of its chemical use — if it wants to. This was hammered home once again in what may be the most important agricultural study this year, although it has been largely ignored by the media, two of the leading science journals and even one of the study’s sponsors, the often hapless Department of Agriculture. The study was done on land owned by Iowa State University called the Marsden Farm. The results were stunning: The longer rotations produced better yields of both corn and soy, reduced the need for nitrogen fertilizer and herbicides by up to 88 percent, reduced the amounts of toxins in groundwater 200-fold and didn’t reduce profits by a single cent. In short, there was only upside — and no downside at all — associated with the longer rotations.

ENFJ Profile Extraverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging by Joe Butt Profile: ENFJ Revision: 3.0 Date of Revision: 23 Feb 2005 ENFJs are the benevolent 'pedagogues' of humanity. They have tremendous charisma by which many are drawn into their nurturant tutelage and/or grand schemes. ENFJs are global learners. ENFJs are, by definition, Js, with whom we associate organization and decisiveness. ENFJs know and appreciate people. TRADEMARK: "The first shall be last" This refers to the open-door policy of ENFJs. Functional Analysis: Extraverted Feeling Extraverted Feeling rules the ENFJ's psyche. Introverted iNtuition Like their INFJ cousins, ENFJs are blessed through introverted intuition with clarity of perception in the inner, unconscious world. The dynamic nature of their intuition moves ENFJs from one project to another with the assurance that the next one will be perfect, or much more nearly so than the last. Extraverted Sensing Sensing is extraverted. Introverted Thinking Famous ENFJs: Fictional ENFJs:

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The Big Idea: Perennial Grains Humans made an unwitting but fateful choice 10,000 years ago as we started cultivating wild plants: We chose annuals. All the grains that feed billions of people today—wheat, rice, corn, and so on—come from annual plants, which sprout from seeds, produce new seeds, and die every year. "The whole world is mostly perennials," says USDA geneticist Edward Buckler, who studies corn at Cornell University. "So why did we domesticate annuals?" Not because annuals were better, he says, but because Neolithic farmers rapidly made them better—enlarging their seeds, for instance, by replanting the ones from thriving plants, year after year. Today an enthusiastic band of scientists has gone back to that fork in the road: They're trying to breed perennial wheat, rice, and other grains. We pay a steep price for our reliance on high yields and shallow roots, says soil scientist—and National Geographic emerging explorer—Jerry Glover of the Land Institute.

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Hemp Foods Australia | HempSeeds, Buy Hemp Seeds, Hemp Oil Perennial Wheat Feasibility Study The Perennial Wheat Feasibility project assessed the feasibility of developing perennial wheat for Australia. Perennial wheat lines from Washington State University and The Land Institute (Kansas) were grown in the field in Cowra and Woodstock, New South Wales, together with various stable wheat/wheatgrass amphiploid hybrids from around the world. Some of these wheats were able to successfully yield grain for three consecutive years, effectively proving the concept of perennial wheat, particularly in the long season (high rainfall zone) temperate climates. Perennial wheat is created by crossing traditional annual wheat varieties with perennial grasses. The development of perennial wheat could have many advantages for future farming in Australia. Charles Sturt University, NSW Department of Primary Industries and CSIRO are continuing to assess opportunities to develop perennial wheat. Professor Len Wade, Charles Sturt University Richard Hayes, NSW DPI

10 Inexpensive Activities and Games Money is tight anymore. Between a recession that we are all tired of hearing about, low amounts of jobs and high unemployment, we should all be saving our money. But we are going to be equally, if not more, bored when we are poor as we are when we have enough money to spare for luxuries and hobbies. You may not have enough money for the Nintendo Wii, you may be a few dollars short to go to the theatre and see a movie, maybe you are using most of your paycheck to fill up your car, so you can go to work, so you can get a paycheck that is just enough to fill up your car for the commute to work. So what is there to do that is fun, but very cheap? Well, at least ten things. Most of us have at one time seen the flamboyantly colored guns that fire the harmless foam darts with suction cups for tips. After you obtain your new blaster, try Capture the Flag, Elimination, King of the Hill, and many more game variants. Two teams occupy one half of the playing area each. A catalyst can be anything.