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North Korea Missile Program Progressing Faster Than Thought North Korea launched the Hwasong-14 missile test on July 4, 2017. Photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, July 4, 2017 North Korea may have a working intercontinental ballistic missile, or ICBM, able to carry a nuclear weapon by next year. Intelligence officials for the U.S. Defense Department made the estimate in a report published Tuesday. Some Republican lawmakers have voiced concerns about North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs. The Washington Post reported that the estimate decreases the expected time in which North Korea would be able to produce a “reliable, nuclear-capable ICBM” program. Earlier estimates had stated that North Korea would need three years to build a working ICBM. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep, Mac Thornberry, has called for increased missile defense spending. Mac Thornberry is the Republican committee chairman of the House Armed services comm...

Conservation Farming Means Healthy Soil and Profits Farmers Find Healthy Soils Make Healthy Profits Agriculture experts have a message for farmers worldwide: Take care of your soil, and your soil will take care of you. By using the techniques of “conservation agriculture”, they say farmers can save their land and save money, at the same time. This is becoming more important as the world’s population grows. More people means more food needs to be grown to feed them. Most modern agriculture looks like long rows of green crops covering large areas of land. They have neat rows of single kinds of plants with uncovered soil in between. Trey Hill’s farm in the U.S. state of Maryland does not look anything like that. Instead, there are green plants mixed in with what is left from other plants. Together they cover the soil. "If you don't like your fields to look like a mess -- It has to kind-of grow on you. Yet, I have a lot of other owners and peers that are, like, 'Wow, what you...