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Further compounding the problem, industrial agriculture has whittled hundreds of diverse species of cotton down to just a handful of varieties; the common practice known as monocropping planting farms with just one variety makes farms even more vulnerable to pests, which love to feed on big fields of one consistent meal.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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Further compounding the problem, industrial agriculture has whittled hundreds of diverse species of cotton down to just a handful of varieties; the common practice known as monocropping planting farms with just one variety makes farms even more vulnerable to pests, which love to feed on big fields of one consistent meal.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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Further compounding the problem, industrial agriculture has whittled hundreds of diverse species of cotton down to just a handful of varieties; the common practice known as monocropping planting farms with just one variety makes farms even more vulnerable to pests, which love to feed on big fields of one consistent meal.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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Further compounding the problem, industrial agriculture has whittled hundreds of diverse species of cotton down to just a handful of varieties; the common practice known as monocropping planting farms with just one variety makes farms even more vulnerable to pests, which love to feed on big fields of one consistent meal.
THE STORY OF STUFF Annie Leonard 2010
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He said damaging agricultural practices such as monocropping and overuse of chemicals have exarcerbated the crop decline over the past 30 years.
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That is the type of monocropping that is bad for the environment and can lead to wholesale crop losses and blights.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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And, uh, what does monocropping have to do with global warming?
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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And, uh, what does monocropping have to do with global warming?
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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That is the type of monocropping that is bad for the environment and can lead to wholesale crop losses and blights.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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And, uh, what does monocropping have to do with global warming?
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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With forced monocropping, you take a complex area of the world, and you not only radically simplify its ecology, but you also radically reduce the kinds of organisms that live there
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