Agricultural Sciences: Fun Pictures

Sometimes, you just need a bit of laughter or aww moments to get through learning about digestive tracks and ringworm. So here's some random Agricultural Science pictures I had floating around on the computer. Some are from feed stores and some from the various farm visits I've taken.

Floating aquaculture tanks. Each one had fish living in the wooden tanks.

Environmental Science: Paul Greenberg: The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead

Discussion Forum and Opinion on video:

Paul Greenberg: The four fish we're overeating -- and what to eat instead

Summary:

He discusses how we have moved from eating a multitude of animal species to only a few (four in fishing: salmon, cod, tuna, and shrimp). This trend has happened predominantly in the last 50 years. He also mentions how “we are currently taking between 80 and 90 million metric tons” (Greenberg, 2015) out of the sea every year and that with the advent of fish farming and aquaculture we are taking the equivalent of two of the human weight of China out of the seas every year.

Environmental Science: Invasive Species

Invasive species are pests too, but most people don’t think about our waterways when they talk pests and pesticides.

Environmental Science: Renewables in the World Scheme

Modern Windfarm in Northern California

Renewables in the World Scheme

In gardening, they say you need to put the right plant in the right place. I think we are going to have to do the same thing with renewable energy. Not every country has acres to lay down solar panels or waves to collect their energy and so we will need to be flexible and adaptive to our environment. I think the biggest problem will not be the technology, but the politics. If we can get rid of the borders between countries and figure out how to transport energy from one section of the world to another, than we can be successful.

Welcome

Welcome. I am an Agricultural and Environmental Sciences student taking way too many courses at way too many universities. LOL To keep things straight in my head, and maybe help a fellow student or two, I'm going to post some of my discussion posts, essays, and observations here. I hope they help.