1 A reasonable estimate for house building lumber costs is somewhere around $15 to $30 per square foot. 2  For an average sized home, this works out to approximately $35 to $55,000 (this price also includes the price of nails, etc.).
Studies by Scottish researchers have found higher levels of arsenic in rice grown in the U.S. than in basmati or jasmine rice from Thailand or India. The highest levels of arsenic in U.S.-grown rice came from Southern states.
The people of Jericho are the first known to have lived mainly from the cultivation of crops. Barley is grown within the following millennium. Rice is thought to have been cultivated considerably later, perhaps not until about 2500 BC. It is uncertain whether it is first grown as a crop in India or China. The first American farmers: 5000 - 2500 BC. The cultivation of crops in America begins in the Tehuacan valley, southeast of the present-day Mexico City.