Agriculture

Agriculture is the art and science of producing food from the land and through animal husbandry. Modern agriculture encompasses a wide variety of farming techniques, forestry, and breeding practices. Agricultural science has given rise to innovations in farming techniques to allow significantly more crops to be planted on a given plot of land, better breeding techniques that have given rise to healthier, meatier livestock, and forestry methods that allow for high yields of food crops without significant damage to the forests.

By studying recent agricultural advances you can learn a variety of new techniques that will make your endeavors in agriculture much more profitable. Farming techniques in irrigation, planting selection, and crop rotation will keep your land growing plentiful crops. You can learn of new pesticides that are benign to humans and animals will help you achieve the highest yields possible by preventing insects from feasting on your hard earned goods. The details and FDA regulations that govern food crops and animal farming will be invaluable in ensuring that your endeavors succeed and are not shut down as a result of breaking government regulations.

Agriculture is not only relegated to the rural areas of cities and states now. Sustainable agricultural practices have led to the rise of many orchards and smaller farms within towns and cities throughout the United States and many European countries. Supporting urban agriculture is a wonderful way to play a part in the green revolution and reduce your own negative impact on the environment. In fact, starting your own urban agricultural project is a great way to give yourself access to high quality organic fruits and vegetables while even having a positive impact on the environment by growing plants and trees, which actually counteract carbon emissions.

You can find a wealth of websites containing information on agriculture and agricultural technologies in the list below. You can also add your own website to this list by clicking the ‘add site’ button above.

 

Agriculture Listings

National Family Farm Coalition (Washington, DC)
Washington, DC based family and rural farmers organization founded in 1986.
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