The Cerén farmers tolerated and possibly even encouraged the growth of wild and weedy species within their maize fields. All of the weedy species recovered from these fields have known uses nutritionally, medicinally, or for other purposes where they were incorporated into ceremonial activities or valued as a decoration . Amaranthus, Crotalaria, and Portulaca are […]
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It is in this space between the Other’s home and the outside that a welcome can be given
This ambiguity—on the one hand, she relays her experience without relation to the historical context or the others who had similar experiences, on the other, the way in which private experience and public context interact is a central theme of her text—allows her to create a textual space that preserves her own subjectivity and uniqueness […]
The odd silences and elisions in El carrer de les Camèlies make more sense in this context
Over this time the deportees’ own understanding of their situation also changed. While at first most considered their experience a personal one, beginning in the 70s there was an increasing recognition among Jews of the collective aspect of the genocide. In her text, Kofman struggles with the ambiguities of public and private identity, and with […]
The technical replicates were combined using an equal mass of DNA from each replicate prior to library prep
Potentially leachable soil nitrate levels were calculated for each field using nitrate concentrations from the top 15cm at the harvest sampling event, which occurred within the first three weeks of harvest. Though the plants continued to grow for the duration of the harvest, it is unlikely that nitrate from the top 15cm were used due […]
Two key questions exist when designing policy to target agricultural water resiliency
Amidst an increasingly industrialized food system, farmers and activists the world over have advocated and struggled to move agricultural production towards diversified farming systems. Agroecology–a form of agriculture based in small-scale, thought-intensive, diversified farming systems and the socio-political movements necessary to defend them and advocate for their wider adoption–has emerged as a combination of science, […]
The Farm Bill itself does not deal directly with immigration
Overall, higher wages and employer-provided health care would not only lower state and federal public assistance costs, and allow all levels of government to better target how their tax dollars are used, but it would also rightfully hold corporations accountable to their employees and thus challenge the status quo of federal and state subsidization of […]
These patterns mirrored the effect of the housing and job crisis on people of color as well
The primary purpose of the federal crop insurance program is to offer subsidized crop insurance to producers who purchase a policy to protect against losses in yield, as well as crop revenue and whole farm revenue. Significantly, more than 100 crops are insurable. The 2014 Farm Bill increased funding for crop insurance, primarily for two […]
It is important but difficult to disentangle how these factors affect the data
Listing a female farm operator among all the farm operators may be at least correlated with a willingness to adopt new technology, diversify sales, or increase vertical integration on the dairy farm. This is a feasible hypothesis because the presence of a female operator may indicate that the farm is more open to change than […]
Farm operator characteristics have changed as dairy farm size has evolved
Consolidation may have allowed dairies to capture improved productivity and efficiency on the farm. How dairy farm size changes in response to these and other factors are important in considering future trends in farm size and their impact on milk production in the United States. My research seeks to help explain recent patterns of farm […]
Several of the farmers characterized their role as a responsibility
Following the farm financial crisis of the 1980s, land prices in the County sharply dropped ; this economic window provided an opportunity for a new generation of farmers to insert a more ecologically-minded approach to farming. Many of these farmers arrived to Yolo County relatively new to farming – often young, educated white urbanites with a desire […]