Over long periods, many if not most of our attempts to alter nature backfire. The lesson: do these things holistically. Work with nature, not against nature.
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All posts tagged: Range Poisons
Bayer’s Roundup Problem Slashes Its Market Value
Many of the mergers and acquisitions that harm companies, workers and customers are motivated by bonuses—the ones that managers and boards pay themselves for putting these deals together. Even so, Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto seems […]
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Can Cows Help Mitigate Climate Change? Yes, They Can!
Livestock and other so-called “invasive exotic” animals can replace missing wild animals’ beneficial effects on plants when they are managed to copy natural grazing patterns. These and other innovations of restoration agriculture practices are discussed […]
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Living Soil Film
This 60-minute documentary features innovative farmers and soil health experts from throughout the U.S. Our soils support 95 percent of all food production, and by 2060, our soils will be asked to give us as […]
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Maybe This is Why You Don’t Like the Research Coming From Land Grant Colleges
This thoughtful article discusses inadequate funding for the land grant colleges and how this shortfall affects research. Not mentioned is that, faced with this continual funding crisis, the land grant colleges have accepted massive funding […]
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Game Ranch Fined for Pesticide Misuse in Hill Country Bat Cave Incident
Pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, antibiotics and countless harmful additives are used on our farms and ranches every day. The only differences in the events described in this article and millions of similar episodes across the […]
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Will Mushrooms Be Magic for Threatened Bees?
Seventy years ago, Dr. William Albrecht, the “Father of Soil Fertility,” wrote, “It’s not the overpowering invader we must fear but the weakened condition of the victim.” Outbreaks of parasite-spread diseases must be treated if […]
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One of Nature’s Smallest Flowering Plants Can Survive Inside of a Duck
Nature constantly introduces new plants into new places as this article on the spread of the lowly duckweed illustrates. Usually “alien exotic” plants don’t “invade” stable systems, but colonize damaged habitats where they previously couldn’t […]
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EPA Allows Farmers to Keep Using Bayer’s Controversial Weedkiller
Collapsing insect populations probably explain the loss of much wildlife – including quail. Insect disappearance is an ominous trend which could foretell the failure of the world’s food web. Meanwhile the agrochemical giants continue to […]
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Hyperalarming Study Shows Massive Insect Loss
Agricultural chemicals play a major role in this process, which ultimately threatens the world’s food web.
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