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By cgfi on August 17th, 2009

TRYING TO REPLAY THE 1980’S SALMON CRISIS, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

CHURCHVILLE, VA—British Columbia’s Fraser River is suffering a salmon collapse, says Canada’s Globe and Mail. “It’s beyond a crisis!” warns a fishing advisor to the Fraser’s Indian tribes. The Watershed Watch Salmon Society says the Fraser should have had 10–13 million spawning sockeye salmon this season—but has gotten less than 2 million. Canada’s government has [...]

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By cgfi on September 09th, 2004

How Should the Feed Industry View the Consumer Confidence Challenge?

Dennis Avery
It’s happened again. The food industry has once again allowed activists and headline-hungry journalists to turn the safest food system in human history into a house of horrors. Once again, there has been no effective answer or strategy on behalf of the food system to the unwarranted public attack.
The Mad Cow Media Circus [...]

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By Alex Avery on July 26th, 2004

Is High-Yield Farming Worth Saving?

Presentation to the Illinois Farm Bureau Commodity Conference: Is High-Yield Farming Worth Saving?

Dennis Avery
. . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where formerly hardly a hut . . . everywhere there is a dwelling,
everywhere a multitude. . . . [...]

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By cgfi on October 06th, 2003

Has America Already Lost High-Yield Agriculture?

Dennis T. Avery
America has had a proud two centuries of world leadership in high-yield agricultural research and technology. It stretches back to George Washington’s farming experiments and Abraham Lincoln signing the Morrill Act to create the land-grant colleges and agricultural experiment stations. It includes the hybrid seeds, mechanization, and pesticides that produce ample American ample food-while [...]

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