farming

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/8/2021
  

  Relief Bill is Most Significant Legislation for Black Farmers since Civil Rights Act, Experts Say

  The COVID-19 relief bill contains provisions that may help support African American farmers, who have been systematically harmed by prejudice, market dynamics and federal policy for the past century. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/20/20
  

  Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape

  by Wyatt Oswald, David R. Foster, and Elizabeth Chilton

  Our new research, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, tests this human-centric view of the past using interdisciplinary, retrospective science. The data we collected suggest, in New England, this assumption is erroneous.

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  2-10-15
  

  Invention of Farming Led to Changes In Human Mandible

  The researchers found that as time progressed, the skeltons' jawbones shrank, but their tooth size was unaffected.

• SOURCE: Oxford University
  7-16-13
  

  Europe's first farmers used manure 8,000 years ago

  A new study says Europe's first farmers used far more sophisticated practices than was previously thought. A research team led by the University of Oxford has found that Neolithic farmers manured and watered their crops as early as 6,000 BC.It had always been assumed that manure wasn't used as a fertiliser until Iron Age and Roman times. However, this new research shows that enriched levels of nitrogen-15, a stable isotope abundant in manure, have been found in the charred cereal grains and pulse seeds taken from 13 Neolithic sites around Europe. The findings are published in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The study suggests that Neolithic farmers used the dung from their herds of cattle, sheep, goats and pigs as a slow release fertiliser for crops....

• SOURCE: WaPo
  1-14-13
  

  National Museum of American History seeks help building collection showing farm innovations

  WASHINGTON — The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History working with farmers to build a new collection showing the evolution of modern agriculture.The museum announced Monday that it’s working with the American Farm Bureau Federation to collect items that reflect innovation in farming and ranching over the past 70 years. Curators are seeking stories, photographs and objects for a future exhibition.The first donation was announced by a Tennessee farmer at the farm bureau’s annual meeting in Nashville. A multigenerational dairy will donate a computer cow tag system and photographs to show how the dairy became a modernized operation.The museum will open a web portal in March to collect stories and photographs online....