Quick, what’s the definition of the word Monoculture? Is it: A. A country with only one ethnic group? B. A lab sample with only one pathogen, or C. A field planted in only one crop? If you said “C” you win the prize, at least for this column. “Mono” of course, means “one,” and the… Continue reading Monoculture
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The Rise and Fall of the Plow
The Rise and Fall of the Plow The story is that an Illinois blacksmith named John Deere invented the plow in 1837 out of a broken sawmill blade, but in truth the plow had been around for several generations prior to that. Like maybe four hundred generations. (Allowing 20 years per generation, four hundred… Continue reading The Rise and Fall of the Plow