The large increase in inventories, accounts receivable, and accounts payable seems the most appropriate, considering the prices of soybeans and corn both have significantly increased over the last few years, and also seem to have gone back and forth quite a bit. Accrued liabilities is the most difficult to explain based on ADM’s product markets, but it does make sense that it would follow the trend set by the change in the prices of
Hemp: Good for America In the United States legalizing the industrialization of hemp would have many positive effects on today’s economy. The many uses of hemp make it an important plant for any first world country to grow as an industrial crop. The hemp plant is a renewable resource that is good for the environment as well as enriches the soil it grows in. There are more than 25,000 product hemp can be used to make. For thousands of years humans have used different parts of the hemp plant for food, textiles, paper, fabric, rope and fuel oils.
Basing our hypothesis off of this past experiment, I hypothesized that in the presence of ammonium nitrate we should see an increased germination rate of our spores from the Ceratopteris richardii. We grew 2 different cultures of the fern spores, one on a control petri dish and one in 1% NH4NO3, with 6 replicates. They were grown for 4 weeks and were put under sufficient lighting. All the data was compiled from all the replicates and after all the calculations we found that there was a significant difference in the spore germination rate. Less germinated in the presence of 1% ammonium nitrate compared to the spores not in the presence of ammonium nitrate.
Approximately _____15,00_____ acres of fresh tomatoes and ____110,000______ acres of processing tomatoes are grown annually in the southern San Joaquin Valley. True or (False) (italicize one): California is NOT the major supplier of carrots for the US. http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1182/pdf/06SanJoaquinValley.pdf Mining ground water for agriculture has enabled the San Joaquin Valley of California to become one of the world’s most productive agricultural regions, while simultaneously contributing to what? ____to one of the single largest alterations of the land surface attributed to humankind.___ California ranks as the largest agricultural producing state in the nation, producing what percent of the total U.S. agricultural value? ____11_____% The Central Valley of California produces about what percent of the nation’s table food on only 1 percentof the country’s farmland?
Popular Mechanics magazine (1938) said that hemp was “the new billion dollar crop,” stating that it “can be used to produce more than 25,000 products, ranging from dynamite to Cellophane”(Small purdue.edu). Hemp’s most important uses come from its stalk. The fibers that are harvested from hemp’s stalk can be used to make products such as textiles, paper, building materials, and other industrial products (Roulac 15). The leaves, seeds, cell fluid, and the whole hemp plant are also used to create a large number of other products. Hemp fiber could be used to make a large variety of papers, which would help decrease the paper industries dependency on wood.
| | Net primary production (NPP) is equal to GPP minus the energy used by the primary producers for respiration. | | Different ecosystems vary considerably in their net primary production and in their contribution to the total NPP on Earth. | Cue Column | Notetaking Column | | Primary production is the amount of new biomass added in a given period of time. | Primary Production | Different ecosystems differ greatly in their production as well as in their contribution to the total production of the Earth. | | Terrestrial ecosystems contribute two-thirds of global net primary production, and marine ecosystems contribute approximately one-third.
Palmer goes on to writes “The cotton plant needs about 50 percent more water per season than hemp, which can grow with little irrigation…cotton uses more than four times as much water as hemp” (Palmer). Along with what Brian Palmer wrote, Kristoffer James right in his article “Why to Choose Hemp Over Cotton” writes “Cotton consumes 25% of the world’s insecticides and 10% of the world’s pesticides… Most hemp is grown without pesticides/insecticides” (James). Kristoffer James goes on to write “It takes about 1,400 gallons of water to produce just one pound of cotton… Hemp requires only half that” (James). Both Palmer and James show that
Stage three of the Conrad and-Demarest model helps understand empires by seeing their major results such as relative stability and prosperity, economic rewards, and population increase. The stability and prosperity of the Han started with high agricultural productivity supporting the craft industries of iron tools and silk. The iron industry was of rapid growth, because iron parts were used in shovels, picks and spades, enabling cultivators to produce more food and support a larger population. The agriculture surplus allowed fine manufactured goods to be produced and to engage in trade. Iron also was of military use in crafting armor, swords and spears.
The objective was to provide the farmers with scientific information that had been researched by the department through the Smith-Lever bill. The government would do this by “subsidiz[ing] demonstration-farming programs, under which farmers would try out techniques proposed by experts” (57). The cultivation industry would be able to increase productivity and could now start to revitalize in the market. In 1914, Woodrow Wilson signed the Smith-Lever bill into law. The act was a success and the yield of “cotton on the million and one-half acres worked by demonstrates more then doubled that of nondemontrators” and “almost a million and one-half corn growers improved their practices” (59).
The technology that was developed in this quest to revolutionize the agricultural industry was driven by one goal, so that one farmer could plant, grow and harvest more acres than ever seen before (Aaron, 2007). The impact that the technology revolution, such as tractors and food production plants, has had in agriculture has shifted the American populace from a nation of farmers, nearly one out of four, to a nation of consumers where a single farmer could now claim to feed over one hundred and twenty nine Americans (Pollan, 2007). The final transformation is when farming became big business and replaced the quality and ownership of raw food products with value added commodities and brand recognition. The days when raw products where bundled in sacks of the farm’s name and its pride, which has now been replaced with large elevator mills and mountains of surplus where accountability is lost (Aaron, 2007). The goal of feeding the world has now become one of the greatest handicaps in food nutrition, through the overproduction of crops and the depletion of nutrients in the soil.