Barf on Algoma (a review of this year’s Bluegrass Adventure)

The stain left in northern Wisconsin this year, not by a bodily fluid but by a clever acronym (namely B.A.R.F or Bluegrass and Roots Festival) is not unlike the damage done to a stylish taupe vest after one’s humors are balanced on it after a night of saturnalian excess. One is not sure of what… Continue reading Barf on Algoma (a review of this year’s Bluegrass Adventure)

On the Future of Beef Sustainability in Amazonian Old-Growth Beef Stands

Brazil has a strong internal market for beef and beef products. According to the Brazilian Institute for Sausage and Frycookery (IBSF), the volume of groundround production in the Brazilian Amazon between 1991 and 2000 was 3.5 x 107 m. Given a nominal harvest volume of 30 m3 ha-1 this implies that in an average year… Continue reading On the Future of Beef Sustainability in Amazonian Old-Growth Beef Stands