The Canadian Prairies (usually referred to as simply the Prairies in Canada) is a region in Western Canada. It includes the Canadian portion of the Great...
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Conference (SWAC). Prairie View A&M is the only charter member remaining in the conference. The university was established as Alta Vista Agriculture & Mechanical...
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the most important agricultural regions in Canada thanks to advances in irrigation technology. The dominant plant life in prairies consists of grasses...
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recognized species of prairie dog: black-tailed, white-tailed, Gunnison's, Utah, and Mexican prairie dogs. In Mexico, prairie dogs are found primarily...
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soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie". Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 141 (3): 310–322. Bibcode:2011AgEE..141...
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Grande Prairie is a city in northwestern Alberta, Canada, within the southern portion of an area known as Peace River Country. It is located at the intersection...
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Much of the shortgrass prairie is grazed by domestic livestock, with a human population that is dependent upon agriculture. However, energy and mining...
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sativa). This species and other wild oats can become troublesome in prairie agriculture when it invades and lowers the quality of a field crop, or competes...
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Intensive farming (redirect from Intensive agriculture)
Intensive agriculture, also known as intensive farming (as opposed to extensive farming), conventional, or industrial agriculture, is a type of agriculture, both...
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The black-tailed prairie dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) is a rodent of the family Sciuridae (the squirrels) found in the Great Plains of North America from...
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ecosystems were predominantly grassland or prairie, highly productive annual farming is the dominant agricultural system. Important categories of food crops...
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(March 2011). "Climate Change, Prairie Agriculture and Prairie Economy: The new normal". Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics. 59 (1): 19–44. Bibcode:2011CaJAE...
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soil chemical, physical and hydrological properties in tall grass prairie". Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment. 141, May 2011 (3–4): 310–322. doi:10...
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provinces," Farmers for economic freedom: Updates from the Prairie Centre/Centre for Prairie Agriculture in Regina, Saskatchewan. May 21, 2001. Archived 28 December...
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2016-06-28. Tonneson, Lon (2019-09-16). "Mitchell Corn Palace celebrates prairie agriculture". Dakota Farmer. Retrieved 2020-07-19. Cerney, Jan (2004). Images...
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Portage la Prairie (/ˈpɔːrtɪdʒ lə ˈprɛəri/) is a small city in the Central Plains Region of Manitoba, Canada. In 2016, the population was 13,304 and the...
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Mountains, and the relatively flat Canadian Prairies in the southwest facilitate productive agriculture. The Great Lakes feed the St. Lawrence River...
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Prairie Farms Dairy is a dairy cooperative founded in Carlinville, Illinois, and now headquartered in Edwardsville, Illinois, a suburb of St. Louis. As...
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the steel plow, which enabled large scale conversion to agricultural land use, tallgrass prairies extended throughout the American Midwest and smaller portions...
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followed by agriculture at 13%. Thirteen per cent of Portage la Prairie's residents are aboriginal, while a further 6% are German. Portage la Prairie has been...
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greater prairie-chicken prefers undisturbed prairie and was originally found in tallgrass prairies. It can tolerate agricultural land mixed with prairie, but...
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months, Prairial lasted 30 days and was divided into three 10-day weeks called décades (decades). Every day had the name of an agricultural plant, except...
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Agriculture on the precontact Great Plains describes the agriculture of the Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains of the United States and southern Canada...
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surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Dufferin, in the heart of a rich prairie agricultural belt, 60 km (37 mi) north of the American state of North Dakota....
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Palouse (redirect from Palouse Prairie)
Walla County, the Camas Prairie of Idaho, the Big Bend region of the central Columbia River Plateau, and other smaller agricultural districts such as Asotin...
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region of this prairie province. Alberta is renowned still for its stampedes, and cattle ranching is a main industry. The agricultural industry is supplemented...
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The Little House on the Prairie books comprise a series of American children's novels written by Laura Ingalls Wilder (b. Laura Elizabeth Ingalls). The...
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The Mexican prairie dog (Cynomys mexicanus) is a diurnal burrowing rodent native to north-central Mexico. Treatment as an agricultural pest has led to...
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Grant MacEwan (category Ontario Agricultural College alumni)
Producer Prairie Books. ISBN 0888330103. – Biography of Pat Burns — (1980). Grant MacEwan's Illustrated History of Western Canadian Agriculture. Saskatoon:...
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Britain's agricultural depression was caused by the dramatic fall in grain prices that followed the opening up of the American prairies to cultivation...
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