#Farmers

Continuing #BlackHistoryMonth is scientist George Washington Carver, one of my fave Americans if for no other reason his pioneering work with peanuts. Carver was born in MO into slavery
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There is a disturbing tendency among groups in the diaspora to religionize what are fundamentally political reactions to political actions. This religionizing creates a binary where every political actor &
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@DavidGauke @jonworth @DavidHenigUK and I have all written that for weeks that politics leads to no deal as a thin deal will be unpopular all round I admire @SamuelMarcLowe and
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As January 6th approaches, I'm sitting here just one little soul in a small place in a big ole world. There are many things I once could do- that no
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I spoke today on BOOM Live about the ban of Twitter handles of some prominent entities, including @thecaravanindia . Bans on Twitter are something I've been thinking about for a
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Hon'ble Supreme leader @Altaf4BJP , I rise to present the budget for the year 2020-2021 .This is first budget of our government after receiving massive mandate to form the govt
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Underscoring the importance to work on breeding for high temperature tolerance between and within specieshttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/05/one-billion-people-will-live-in-insufferable-heat-within-50-years-study Just checki
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Biden names Tom “Mr. Monsanto” Vilsack as Agriculture Secretary. Here’s some background on Monsanto... Monsanto is most commonly known for producing genetically modified (GMO) seeds and the herbicide glyphosate known
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By far the most positive statement to date on UK-EU talks. We're still talking, deal possible in September, both sides starting to show a bit of room for compromise. But
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Expected government u-turn alert. The Trade and Agriculture Commission is to be made permanent and issue a report on each trade deal before it is laid before parliament. Another small
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USDA ≠ Rural America. Over 90% of rural Americans are not farmers. And as @anthonypipa writes, there are 400 federal rural economic and community development programs that span 13 departments.
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We recently read The Tyranny of the Clock (http://www.spunk.org/texts/writers/woodcock/sp001734.html) but we think it didn't go far enough.Let's talk about calendars. Humans always knew how to live on nature's time. They
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Thread on Importance of Desi Cow Breeds1/n Indian (Desi) cows is the only species of cow on the planet which has a hump on its back. The hump has a
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As 2020 draws to a close, I'd like to take a moment to look back at an unprecedented year & stories I'm particularly proud of. I feel really privileged to
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I want to take a few minutes to break down @rodsullivan111's latest on @LauraRBelin's Bleeding Heartland. Go read it and come back while I'm hammering this out.https://www.bleedingheartland.com/2020/11/11/ten-things-iowa-democra
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One of the worst anti-business things that happened in the last 40 years was Apple taking a 30% cut from its app store, which set a precedent that almost everyone
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