Volume 20, No.4, Winter 2002

Features

Spent grains and stale beer make nutritious meals for livestock.
Multi-billion-dollar farm subsidies won't last forever.
Why have farmers received such largesse from the federal government?
Kelmscott Farm in Maine preserves endangered livestock varieties.

Columns

A market approach to conservation: Buy land.

Perspectives

Grain growers in Washington's Spokane Valley tradition
The high desert of southern Idaho seems an unlike
A tidal wave of wastewater from rapidly growing