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Your Tax Dollars at Work Building Iraqi Feedlots

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A recently established international partnership will focus on developing a “strong and viable beef and lamb feedlot industry” for Iraq, according to project participants. and Iraqi governmental agencies, universities and agribusiness groups and individuals will bring new private-sector economic opportunities to Iraq, they said.

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Use it or lose it?

10,000 Birds

During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. All our places, from cities to farms, are part of nature. You cannot ever draw a line in the world and say that on one side is our world and on the other is nature.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Modern Korean society still has deep roots in its agricultural traditions, and Koreans can get very defensive about any issue that seems to threaten the livelihood of “grandpa and grandma” back on the farm, even if this causes them to pay twice as much for inefficiently produced Korean beef as they would for foreign imports.

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Birding the Great German Poo Trail

10,000 Birds

Now, I am quite sure the terms Rieselfelder and Klärteiche used to describe two different modes of cleaning sewage water, possibly comparable to ponds and sod farms that look like golf courses, but today they are freely exchangeable and birders will use whatever comes to their mind.

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