Economics down on the farm

Down on the farm: preventing farm accidents in children.

Agriculture continues to rank as the most dangerous industry in the United States. The objectives of this pilot study were to identify the incidence of care provided to children involved in farm accidents, examine barriers to utilization of farm safety materiaJs by primary health care practitioners (PHCPs), and determine the percentage of PHCPs who provide anticipatory guidance related to farm ...

#375 - Cancer Down On The Farm

The cancer establishment--the largely male, largely white and largely elderly group of researchers who act as gatekeepers for cancer research dollars--try to put a good face on it. They point to reductions in deaths from childhood cancers, reductions in cancer deaths among young adults, and reductions in deaths from some specific cancers. Still the fact remains that the total age-adjusted death...

The economics of conserving agricultural biodiversity on-farm

Economics and Farm Animal Welfare

The ecological argument against genetic engineering down on the farm

Drive the Nebraskan backroads in July and you will encounter one of the great technological wonders of the modern world: thousands of acres of corn extending to the vanishing point in all directions across the table-flat landscape. It appears as lush and perfect a stand of vegetation as you will find anywhere on Earth--almost every plant, millions of them, the same height, the same deep shade o...