A new vision for Iowa food and agriculture / Francis Thicke.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thicke, Francis, 1950-
Language:English
Published: Fairfield, Iowa : Mulberry Knoll, [2010], ©2010.
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Physical Description:180 pages ; 22 cm
Format: Book

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500 |a "Sustainable agriculture for the 21st century"--Cover. 
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505 0 |a From the Industrial Revolution to industrial agriculture : the road to CAFOs -- The Information Age : the path toward ecological crop & livestock production -- Factory farms vs. family farms -- Economics of CAFOs -- Market concentration -- Industrial agriculture vs. nature's ecology -- System leakages become pollutants -- Agriculture and climate change -- When manure is not manure -- Health effects of CAFOs -- The future of CAFO agriculture -- The design of nature's ecology -- A grass-based dairy designed to mimic nature's ecology -- Value added, value retained -- Grass-based vs. confinement -- Can sustainable farming feed the world -- Peak oil plateau -- Energy use in agriculture -- Limits of using contemporary energy -- Toward sustainable energy self-sufficiency agriculture -- Pyrolysis -- Biochar -- Sorghum for ethanol -- On-farm wind production -- Creative uses of wind power -- Imagine -- Energy policy -- Where does your food come from? -- Because it tastes better -- Economic development -- Healthy foods make healthy people -- Connecting farmers and consumers -- Food policy. 
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