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Protesters in Mexico City hand out corn to workers and farmers in a march against spiraling food prices in 2007. Luis Acosta/Agence France-Presse � Getty Images �Mexico�s bargaining chips with Trump: how about a corn boycott?�   By Kate Linthicum for the Los Angeles Times , March 29, 2017 �First domesticated here 10,000 years ago, corn is not only a staple of the Mexican diet, but also a symbol of Mexico itself. Since the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1994, it has also become a symbol of Mexico�s growing economic dependence on the United States. Now, as President Trump threatens Mexico with drastic changes on trade, its leaders are wielding corn as a weapon. Mexico�s Senate is considering legislation calling for a boycott of U.S. corn, and the government has begun negotiating with Argentina and Brazil to import corn from those nations tax-free. The threat of a boycott is Mexico�s latest and perhaps cleverest attempt to fight back against Trump, whose threat...

� Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don�t want the job .� Trump�s immigration crackdown is supposed to help U . S . citizens . For California farmers, it�s worsening a desperate labor shortage . By Natalie Kitroeff and Geoffrey Mohan for the Los Angeles Times , March 17, 2017 [�.] The flow of labor began drying up when President Obama tightened the border. Now President Trump is promising to deport more people, raid more companies and build a wall on the southern border. That has made California farms a proving ground for the Trump team�s theory that by cutting off the flow of immigrants they will free up more jobs for American-born workers and push up their wages. So far, the results aren�t encouraging for farmers or domestic workers. Farmers are being forced to make difficult choices about whether to abandon some of the state�s hallmark fruits and vegetables, move operations abroad, import workers under a special visa or replace them altogether with machines. Grow...

  Below is a substantial excerpt from the Introduction to David A. Cleveland�s Balancing on a Planet : The Future of Food and Agriculture (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2014). I hope it entices you to read the book, for while I have yet to finish, what I have read thus far and what I�ve peeked at in what�s to come, is very good. In brief�and for what it�s worth�I highly recommend it. Cleveland is Professor of Environmental Studies and Geography at my alma mater, the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), although I�ve never taken a course from him nor do I personally know him. (I have left out the embedded references for the notes.) �The mainstream industrial agrifood system has been remarkably successful over the long run in increasing food production at a rate faster than population growth, with the promise of continuing to do so in the immediate future. Supporters of this system believe that a globally integrated agrifood system and technological bre...

� Our wild, wet winter doesn�t change this reality �California will be short of water forever � By Jay Famiglietti and Michelle Miro* for the Los Angeles Times , March 7, 2017 [�.] All winter, Californians have been asking one question: Is the drought finally over? The federal monitor shows just a few lingering tan and yellow patches in Southern California, but for scientists, the beginning and end of drought conditions are exceptionally difficult to pinpoint. Still, after only a few more serious encounters with the �Pineapple Express,� Gov. Jerry Brown may well declare the state�s 3-year drought emergency over. Which leads us to the second most frequently asked question of this unusually wet winter: What�s our water future? The answer has been clear for a while: It�s going to be a lot like our water past, but more so � California is, was and will be chronically water short. The drought has underlined three important realities that aren�t going to change. First, the way municipalities ...

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Seeing as the alpha level is the probability of making a Type I error, it seems to make sense that we make this area as tiny as possible. For example, if we set the alpha level at 10% then there is large chance that we might incorrectly reject the null hypothesis, while an alpha level of 1% would make the area tiny. So why not use a tiny area instead of the standard 5%? The smaller the alpha level, the smaller the area where you would reject the null hypothesis. So if you have a tiny area, there�s more of a chance that you will NOT reject the null, when in fact you should. This is a Type II error. In other words, the more you try and avoid a Type I error, the more likely a Type II error could creep in. Scientists have found that an alpha level of 5% is a good balance between these two issues. There are two approaches (at least) to conducting significance tests. In one (favored by R. Fisher), a significance test is conducted and the probability value reflects the strength of the ...

What is Agriculture? There are many online queries on what is agriculture although its history started more than 10,000 years ago. I used to think that this is quite amazing because the word agriculture is of common usage. On second thought, I now realize that this seemingly high interest in clarifying the term is justified in view of its large coverage, its varied application as a science, practice, enterprise, and for other purposes including legal matters, and with new technologies and specialized fields continuously added into its fold. In relation to crop farming and livestock farming, the term �agriculture� may be defined as: the art and science of growing plants and the raising of animals for food, other human needs, or economic gain. This definition describes agriculture as both an art and a science (needs skill and founded on scientifically verified facts) and thus includes specialized disciplines; the words �growing� and �raising� are descriptive of enterprise, activity or pr...