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Agriculture

Weekly Review

A Concorde airplane crashed in Paris; two amateur Hungarian photographers snapped a picture of the doomed plane with flames shooting from its engines, which were manufactured by Rolls Royce, just…

Taking nature’s measure

by Wendell Berry,

Random harvest

by Don Sharp,

Reaping where thou hast not sown

Growing with the times

by William Mueller,

The grim yield of modern farming

Country wisdom

by Jeffrey Burke,

Ruminating on farmers, kingpins, and squash

Rubber tomatoes

by Peter Schrag,

The unsavory partnership of research and agribusiness

The good old days

by Wilson Clark,

The helping hand behind food prices

by Roger LeRoy Miller,

A possibly practical utopia

by John Fischer,

Digging up prehistoric America

by Robert Claiborne,

Blank forms can ruin a woman

by Helen Hudson,