Agriculture

Answer: Probably, yes.

Catherine Rampell from The Washington Post and Sudeep Reddy of the Wall Street Journal wrap up the week in news. But, what else did we learn this week?

…in California, that is.

Agriculture uses 80 percent of the water in California

Without bees, we'd lose $15 billion each year in the U.S. – and $100 billion globally.

"Grain cars were unhooked so the locomotives could hook onto oil," one farmer says. Dakota railroads tell another story.

American farmers are older than they ever have been.

Growers are using computers and DNA sequencing to create sweeter, crisper apples.

Corn is not what you think. For starters: Most of the time, it's not human food.

A look behind the 'slow money' movement and BeetCoin with Christopher Wayne from Greenmarket Farmer's Market, and Vermont Public Radio's Angela Evancie.