Farm & Food File
A syndicated column by Alan Guebert
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Fix Rural Broadband’s Leaky, Creaky Net
Posted on June 17, 2014
Moving just six miles from a small central Illinois farm town to an even smaller, rural enclave in 2005 took the lovely Catherine and me from a drafty, big house on a leafy, wide street to a tighter, smaller house in a leafy, wide woods. Fabulous.
On the flip side, however, somewhere during that short move […]
Big Ag and Big Data
Posted on December 1, 2013
Everyday, according to the coconut milk-drinking nerds in Silicon Valley, the world generates 2.5 quintillion bytes of electronic data.
Yes, 2.5 quintillion. Think two, comma, five and then 17 zeroes.
If a picture helps, picture this: If you placed that data on iPads equipped with a 32-gigabyte memory, you would need 57.5 billion iPads to hold it.
Then […]
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August 7, 2020 at 9:56am
The WH swears it *loves* trade-dependent US farmers even as it undermines trade deals like the five-week old NAFTA 2.0 it demanded be renegotiated. Why should any nation now look to US-or its farmers-for a fair shake in trade? https://t.co/YEdKjuSzyK
The WH swears it *loves* trade-dependent US farmers even as it undermines trade deals like the five-week old NAFTA 2.0 it demanded be renegotiated. Why should any nation now look to US-or its farmers-for a fair shake in trade? https://t.co/YEdKjuSzyK
August 5, 2020 at 3:24am
Smart, informed thread that stitches together ethanol’s bleak future. US ag leaders need to accept this fact and develop better policies that rely less on yesterday’s industrial fuel mkts and more on tomorow’s global food mkts. https://t.co/CILpPgh5da
Smart, informed thread that stitches together ethanol’s bleak future. US ag leaders need to accept this fact and develop better policies that rely less on yesterday’s industrial fuel mkts and more on tomorow’s global food mkts. https://t.co/CILpPgh5da
August 4, 2020 at 9:49am
These are *single-purpose* buildings; when that purpose ends, the building’s life usually ends. Even then irony rules: many bulldozed into freshly dug, on-farm holes that almost anywhere else are called landfills. So dead CAFOs often live on. https://t.co/2rDzi0DbP1
These are *single-purpose* buildings; when that purpose ends, the building’s life usually ends. Even then irony rules: many bulldozed into freshly dug, on-farm holes that almost anywhere else are called landfills. So dead CAFOs often live on. https://t.co/2rDzi0DbP1
August 4, 2020 at 9:35am
Remember, too, @donpcarr, just hours into his Adm., Trump w/drew from Trans Pacific Part, a trade deal that hemmed in China and opened 40% of world economy to US farmers and ranchers. Costly, spiteful move that cost US ag untold billions. https://t.co/0Mq6GiFViC
Remember, too, @donpcarr, just hours into his Adm., Trump w/drew from Trans Pacific Part, a trade deal that hemmed in China and opened 40% of world economy to US farmers and ranchers. Costly, spiteful move that cost US ag untold billions. https://t.co/0Mq6GiFViC
July 28, 2020 at 10:03am
What’s remarkable is most farmers’ continued faith in the awful trade policies of the White House. Years from now when we’re still sweeping up the mess, most farmers will say *Man, Trump was great.* https://t.co/PFcUYS166W
What’s remarkable is most farmers’ continued faith in the awful trade policies of the White House. Years from now when we’re still sweeping up the mess, most farmers will say *Man, Trump was great.* https://t.co/PFcUYS166W