Agriculture
Trees, crops, livestock mix fights climate change
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Growing crops, trees and livestock on the same land could help farmers battle climate change.
Great Lakes Echo (http://greatlakesecho.org/tag/forestry/)
Growing crops, trees and livestock on the same land could help farmers battle climate change.
Steel and concrete would be the classic choices for building a large new laboratory planned at Michigan State University. But experts in the university’s forestry department are asking, “Why not wood?”
The project has stalled, perhaps permanently, because of the withdrawal of the lead private investor and elimination of a federal mandate for ethanol made from wood.