[IMAGE] AGRICULTURE CONFERENCE DISCUSSION TOPICS _________________________________________________________________ Here are some of the discussion topics in the Agriculture conference: * Books on Farming and Agriculture * Water and Politics * Sustainability: + Its Definition + Applications + The role of Agriculture in a sustainable society. + Can ethics and agricultural sustainability be separated? + Does Sustainable necessarily mean Small-Scale? * Biotech in Agriculture: + rBGH + The Pattenting of Cotton * Alternative and Non-traditional crops * Organically grown food competing in the marketplace * Soils: + Management + Fertility Measurements + General Questions + Alternative Soil Science (Albrechtian, Biodynamic, etc.) * Diesel fuels from Vegetable Oils * Agricultural Software * Bees, Beekeeping and the Production of Honey * Agricultural Success and Failure through History * Raising Ostriches * Looking at Permaculture * Weeding and control strategies * Is More Diversity Always Better? * The Agriculture Joke Topic ("Ye can't get they're frum he'yer....") * Family farms: + Doomed? + How can they be restored? * Old and Antique Farm Equipment * Communal Farms, Past, Present and Future * South African Agriculture: The ANC Policy * A Land Ethic? Does farming preserve societies values? * Naked Farming * Overpopulation & Agriculture: Crisis or Misperception? * Pest Control by Biological Methods _________________________________________________________________ Return to agriculture conf. home page. _________________________________________________________________ jhaskett@well.sf.ca.us Jonathan Haskett