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Many fruit and nut trees have a dormancy phase during winter
With leading climate change scientists concluding that “It is very likely that heat waves will occur with a higher frequency and duration” as the global mean temperatures increases , it seems likely that tightening bottlenecks, rather than changes in mean temperatures, will be responsible for temperature related damages in agriculture for the next few decades.…
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The need for more data is only increasing as new technologies enter the market
Cooperative Extension, which serves the role of application and outreach, is a “successful model for scientific discovery to be transferred to the end user is through the continuum between campus based faculty and cooperative extension specialists”. A number of cooperative extension specialists are researchers within the CAES. Another component of the land grant university is the…
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Virtually all of the growth will be urban populations in developing countries
A common acceptable system of land classification would do much to facilitate communication among participants involved in future agricultural land-use decisions, including that of conserving prime farmlands . A longer-term concern may well be the increasing irritation between farming and urban life at the rural fringe of urban neighborhoods—“rururbia” —in terms of air quality ,…