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“Live Fast, Die Young”: USDA Shifts Plant Hardiness Zones

“Live Fast, Die Young”: USDA Shifts Plant Hardiness Zones Draft script: Here’s the final sentence of the first paragraph in an article released by yahoo.com on 14 February 2024: “The USDA just updated its plant hardiness zone map for the first time since 2012, and there have been some major changes.” In other words, the United […]

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Our Veggie Gardens Won’t Feed us in a Real Crisis

Our Veggie Gardens Won’t Feed us in a Real Crisis Massive flooding and heavier than normal precipitation across the US Midwest this year delayed or entirely prevented the planting of many crops. The situation was sufficiently widespread that it was visible from space. The trouble isn’t over yet: Hotter-than-normal temperatures predicted to follow could adversely affect corn […]

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Top Scientist Says He Quit USDA Because Trump Admin Tried to Bury His Study on Climate and Nutrition

Top Scientist Says He Quit USDA Because Trump Admin Tried to Bury His Study on Climate and Nutrition Rep. Chellie Pingree tweeted, “Once again, the Trump admin is silencing our scientists.” Plant physiologist Lewis Ziska quit the U.S. Department of Agriculture Friday. (Photo: Peggy Greb/USDA Agricultural Research Service via sciencenewsforstudents.org) The exodus of federal scientists in the era […]

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The Government Has Been Meddling in Food and Nutrition for a Long Time

The Government Has Been Meddling in Food and Nutrition for a Long Time For over a century, the federal government has had its hand in shaping what we eat in a multitude of ways, usually to bad effect. Government intrusion is often obvious. We know when government taxes our income, stops us from using our […]

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Did You Know That The U.S. No Longer Has Any Strategic Grain Reserves At All?

Did You Know That The U.S. No Longer Has Any Strategic Grain Reserves At All? Once upon a time, it was popular to say that the U.S. government only had enough wheat stored up to provide everyone in America with half a loaf of bread.  But that is not true anymore.  Recently, I discovered that […]

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Dust Bowl 2.0: California’s Historic Drought About To Get Even Worse As “Snowpack Melts Early Across The West”

Dust Bowl 2.0: California’s Historic Drought About To Get Even Worse As “Snowpack Melts Early Across The West” It has been a bad year for California whose drought is rapidly approaching historic proportions: according to the LA Times, which cites climatologist Michael Anderson, “you’re looking on numbers that are right on par with what was the […]

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