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Conference to Debate Food vs Feed

2014-11-18 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

UK - Animal feed vs human food will come under the microscope at the National Farm Management Conference ‘Farming for the Future - delivering sustainable intensification’.

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Farmers vs. scientists on the debate over climate change

2014-11-16 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Environmental News Network: Crop producers and scientists hold deeply different views on climate change and its possible causes, a study by Purdue and Iowa State universities shows. Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011-2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both. More than 90 percent of...

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Cuomo can check Pennsylvania town to see fracking debate in real life

2014-11-16 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

NY Daily News: As he weighs perhaps the most contentious decision of his administration, whether to allow drilling for natural gas upstate, Gov. Cuomo need look only a few miles south of New Yorks border to see the fierce debate playing out in real time. Here in this old industrial town and surrounding Bradford County, the benefits of fracking -- a controversial method of extracting natural gas from shale rock underground -- are clear. Concrete well pads, drill rigs and pipelines are spread across the hills...

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Who wins the net neutrality debate? Google, of course

2014-11-14 16:49:00| Telecom - Topix.net

In the debate over net neutrality, AT&T and Cisco are warning that fiber optic cable rollouts could be delayed -- and revenues lost -- if President Obama's recently proposed rules move ahead. Critics argue that those threats are overblown, that AT&T doesn't really have 100 cities ready for fiber installs anyway and while Cisco might lose out, it's been losing revenues from the likes of AT&T for a long time, regardless of this week's brouhaha.

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