can ne1 gimme info abt commercial grain farming in central usa...plzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?
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hi!!!!!!!!\ni dont know who r u but i think tat u r in AVM juhu school\niam rishabh kedia frm 9 a.\ni know tat we hv got this project pls send me a reply \nand temme who r u
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The USA market is huge and there is a move toward everything Organic. You should look for small companies that produce hot sauses and related products, many of them in New Mexico area in the USA. Also, if you can make sause in your area you might be able to export to Organic food suppliers and small grocery stores that only sell Organic food.\n\nThere is a market for your product, if the quality great and the price great.\n\nGood luck.
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depends what type of agriculture you are looking for...\nI would check out the following Canadian sources.  There is a website for Manitoba, Ontario, Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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Searching your specific area will help, but you need to be more specific- are you talking about animal production and husbandry, farming (broadacre/ cereal crops, irrigation, horticulture, viticulture,etc, etc) and agricultural machanics and production or the human resources aspect. Perhaps Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and other government departments  often offer "fact sheets' that can give good overviews in a variety of areas.
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Wild Oats is based out of Boulder, Colorado.  Being a college town they thrived there.  We lived there and shopped quite a bit.  Very organic, health oriented.  Much like Whole Foods (Whole Paycheck) but not quite as expensive.  Some of the stores are a bit run down (earthy if you know what I mean) but the newer stores are quite nice.  Here is their website for more info. Happy Shopping!!!\nhttp://www.wildoats.com/u/home/
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You have to search for each one by commodity and by geographic region.  Here's some links.  I have some other links but they're hard to get.  The best thing to do is to actually make the phone calls.
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Farming.\n\nSmall farms: everything.  The work literally never ends.  Tilling, planting, fertilizing, watering, harvesting, selling, repeat as many times per season as the climate and crops permit. \n\nIn rural Utah, watering is the critical factor, as everything is run on irrigation systems.  People move pipe or repair pipe quite a bit.  For really small farms, they'll usually grow a few acres of alfalfa for their own animals and to share.  So, there are three or so crops a year of that, which includes bailing and stacking the hay.  \n\nIf the farm has animals, they come first.  Always.  My first job was working on a small horse ranch in Utah, where we'd first attend to the animals needs, then go paint a barn, repair a machine, cut thistle in the pasture, burn weeds in the irrigation ditches, or whatever else was pressing.\n\nLarge farms: they're more like corporations than old-style farming.  People would have jobs broken down, computers run and manage everything, planes do the fertilizing, the tractors automate much of the work.
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Check\nhttp://www.fao.org/ag/aga/agap/frg/tap52/5_2_7.pdf
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I attended a workshop given by the USDA. It seems they have loans available for little or no money down. To me, it seemed like a very good program. Try this website for more info. http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/
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What area of ag?  I'm getting a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Agriculture and did fairly well in courses.  Let me know.
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This guy (Jorge Gardea-Torresdey from Chihuahua, Mexico), is working on gold with bacteria and plants:\nhttp://www-ssrl.slac.stanford.edu/research/highlights_archive/alfalfa.html\nhttp://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0829/p02s02-usgn.html\nhttp://www.window.state.tx.us/txinnovator/ti0211/\nhttp://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0957-4484/14/7/323/t30723.pdf\nhttp://w3.cetem.gov.br/imaac/News/GrowthofAuNanoparticles.pdf
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What is it you want to know?  I live in Santa Cruz County, California, where there are large commercial farms in the entire south county.  Most of the farm land is owned by lawyers and family trusts, and leased to the actual farmers.  They hire mostly Spanish-speaking field hands, use very modern equipment and techniques, and feed a good portion of the world.  Virtually every farm consists of one crop:  they are enormously specialized.  When you drive by the fields, they are row on row of the exact same variety of the exact same product, all the same size, separated by uniform spaces, all very automated.  They are clean and efficient, and many of them are certified organic.  It makes me mad when people are critical of "agribusiness."  Food would be at least twice as expensive and at least half as good without modern methods.\n\nYou can learn a great deal about farming from attending a county fair in an agricultural area.  Our Santa Cruz County Fair is truly unique, because Santa Cruz County is truly unique.  We have surfers, artists, small businesses, students (UCSC), tourists, farmers and lots of individualists who love it here.  If you can, come visit!  The County Fair is usually in September.
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Check out www.fundingdocuments.com They did some nice research on my import/export corn oil business plan. Good company.
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Where do you live currently?  Central Michigan University is in a very rural area so depending on your field it may be very difficult to do research.
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Why Mexico's Small Corn Farmers Go Hungry\nMEXICO CITY Macario Hernández's grandfather grew corn in the hills of Puebla, Mexico. His father does the same. Mr. Hernández grows corn, too, but not for much longer. Around his village of Guadalupe Victoria, people farm the way they have for centuries, on tiny plots of land watered only by rain, their plows pulled by burros. Mr. Hernández, a thoughtful man of 30, is battling to bring his family and neighbors out of the Middle Ages. But these days modernity is less his goal than his enemy. \nThis is because he, like other small farmers in Mexico, competes with American products raised on megafarms that use satellite imagery to mete out fertilizer. These products are so heavily subsidized by the government that many are exported for less than it costs to grow them. According to the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis, American corn sells in Mexico for 25 percent less than its cost. The prices Mr. Hernández and others receive are so low that they lose money with each acre they plant. \nhttp://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/ftaa/601.html\n\n\n \nExperts cite several key factors to explain Mexico's enduring poverty. \nFirst, two major economic crises since the 1980s have hampered overall growth, halted the creation of new jobs and pushed large numbers of the lower middle class into poverty. \n Mexico's weak public education system condemns workers to low salaries in a global economy where skills count. Decades of systemic government corruption have robbed the poorest of everything from high school scholarships to subsidized milk. The broken banking system hands out little credit -- people without the cash to buy a house or start a small business must often do without. \nMexico's inability to enforce the rule of law also discourages the investment needed to create jobs. \nJorge Castañeda, Fox's foreign minister until January, said investors were repelled by images of angry farmers riding their horses into the halls of Congress and anarchists successfully killing a $2 billion airport project with machetes and firebombs. They see kidnappings, impunity, corruption and legal structures so anemic that little crime is ever punished. \n"It is a state of disorder," Castañeda said. "This cannot go on." \nBut what has become painfully clear in Mexico is that free trade -- most famously NAFTA -- has failed to lift the country out of poverty. \nStarting with Miguel de la Madrid, president from 1982 to 1988, a succession of Ivy League-educated presidents bet on a formula intended to create prosperity for all. They advocated opening Mexico's markets, making government smaller, and decreasing its involvement in agriculture and industry. \n"There was heavy reliance on a rising tide carrying all boats," said Guerra, who served as spokesman for two presidents in the 1990s. "Well, free-market policies have done nothing to alleviate poverty." \nInstead, such policies have helped the upper classes and widened the divide between rich and poor. Studies show that the richest 10 percent now control about half of the country's financial and real estate assets. Most of those who are extremely poor live in rural areas. Government figures show that more than 40 percent of Mexicans in rural areas earn less than $1.40 a day, unable even to feed themselves decently. As a result, people are bailing out of the countryside as if it were a ship on fire. \n  Mexico's rural population is less than half the size it was in the 1950s. Government surveys show that between 400 and 600 people a day are packing up fleeing to cities or to the United States. \nAlberto Gomez, an influential farmers' leader who recently organized a march on the capital by tens of thousands of farmers, said the situation was desperate. "We don't want to come to the city and we don't want to emigrate to the United States. But people h
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Most of what I found was James Doolittle's work.\n\nGround-Penetrating Radar Soil Suitability Map of the Conterminous United States\n\nJames Doolittle's work at USDA
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You can get good information here:\nhttp://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos069.htm