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Essex Farm differs from many large modern farms that focus on one or two cash crops.  Instead, the Kimballs raise everything from sheep to cabbages, selling their food directly to customers. They've become national evangelists of the small farm, local fo
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Author Kristin Kimball Wants To Persuade You To Become A Farmer

Nov 27, 2019
Kristin Kimball's second book — published nearly two decades after she left New York City to start a farm upstate — explores the ways in which farming has shaped her life and marriage in middle age.
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Goats and Soda
Noah Nasiali-Kadima, foreground, takes a selfie with members of the Africa Farmers Group during a tour of a member's farm in Machakos County, Kenya.
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How 75,000 Abandoned Cabbages Inspired A Huge Online Forum For Farmers In Africa

Nov 01, 2019
In Kenya, a tech worker-turned-farmer almost threw in the trowel. Now, he helps other farmers share tips and support.
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The Salt
Kansas Farmer Luke Ulrich faces long hours and low pay in part because of Trump's trade policies, but he still backs Trump.
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Farmers Sticking By Trump Even As Trade Wars Bite

Oct 10, 2019
Trump's trade wars and ethanol policy hurt farmers, but polls show his support among them remains strong, and may be growing as the impeachment query moves forward.
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The Salt
Cows graze on a grass field at a farm in Schaghticoke, N.Y. The grass-fed movement is based on the idea of regenerative agriculture.
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Is Grass-Fed Beef Really Better For The Planet? Here's The Science

Aug 13, 2019
There are many elements to consider: climate, animal welfare, greenhouse gas emissions, land use. And with so many factors at play, sometimes the answer gets complicated.
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Business
A trailer loaded with chickens passes a federal agent outside a Koch Foods plant in Morton, Miss., on Wednesday.
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Chicken Plants See Little Fallout From Immigration Raids

Aug 09, 2019
The Trump administration says its crackdown helps discourage illegal immigration. But workers' advocates warn it leaves vulnerable employees open to exploitation and unsafe working conditions.
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The Mysteries of the Grasshopper Swarm

Aug 08, 2019

The grasshopper invasion in Las Vegas might have felt a

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Large swaths of forest have been cut down in Brazil in recent decades to make room for farming. Deforestation contributes to global warming, and reversing it will be necessary to avoid catastrophic climate change.
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To Slow Global Warming, U.N. Warns Agriculture Must Change

Aug 08, 2019
The way we produce food and manage land must change radically if humans hope to avoid catastrophic global temperature rise, according to a new report by the United Nations panel on climate change.
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The Salt
Bees crawl over larvae and capped honey cells on a hive frame. Larvae are especially vulnerable to pests like <em>Varroa</em> mites.
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More Bad Buzz For Bees: Record Number Of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter

Jun 19, 2019
An annual survey of beekeepers shows the rate of colony death last winter was the highest reported since the survey began 13 years ago.
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The Salt
A worker dumps a bucket of tomatoes into a trailer at DiMare Farms in Florida City, Fla., in 2013. The Trump administration is preparing to level a new tariff on fresh tomatoes imported from Mexico in response to complaints from Florida growers.
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Food Fight: Trump Administration Levels Tariffs On Mexican Tomatoes

May 07, 2019
Under pressure from Florida lawmakers, the Trump administration is taking steps to protect domestic tomato growers from Mexican competition.
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Marijuana plants grow in a marijuana cultivation facility on July 6, 2017 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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Cannabis 101 At The University Of Connecticut

Mar 16, 2019
With expanding markets for hemp and marijuana, some students believe that taking the class could help their careers. "I'm definitely interested in the plant and where it can go," Madison Blake said.
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World
Sanjay Sathe, 44, grows onions on about an acre of land on a roadside in India's Maharashtra state. His family farm prospered under his grandfather and father, but now he has to raise goats because the price of onions keeps falling.
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'I Rue The Day We Ever Became Farmers': In Rural India, A Struggle To Survive

Feb 12, 2019
"The farmer dies feeding this country, but no one fights for the farmer," says a woman whose son, a farmer, died by suicide. He was $40,000 in debt. Her husband died of a heart attack days later.
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Law
Pigs stand in their shed in a farm in Iowa. A judge Tuesday threw out a law banning undercover investigations in Iowa agricultural facilities.
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Court Strikes Down Iowa's 'Ag-Gag' Law That Blocked Undercover Investigations

Jan 10, 2019
The industry-backed law was enacted after several investigations brought widespread criticism on Iowa's agricultural industry. A judge ruled the law violates the First Amendment.
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Business
The Big Iron Farm Show draws thousands of farmers and farm equipment makers to a fairground in West Fargo, N.D. For many this year, concerns about crop yields have been eclipsed by worries about President Trump's trade policies.
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Farmers Hope For China Trade Deal, But For Now They Worry About Tariffs' Impact

Sep 13, 2018
At the Big Iron Farm Show in North Dakota, the usual concerns about crops have been heightened by another big worry: A trade war with China that's already driven soybean prices down sharply.
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The Salt
The harvest is bad for German farmers this year as the country has experienced the hottest summer on record and months without rainfall.
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German Farmers Struck By Drought Fear Further Damage From Climate Change

Aug 31, 2018
High temperatures and a severe drought have hit food production in Germany and left many farmers there wondering what they can do to survive climate change.
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The Salt
Scientists from the FDA and the University of Arizona test water from an irrigation ditch near Yuma, Ariz., in early August. The FDA found toxic <em>E. coli</em> in another irrigation canal less than a mile from this one.
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What Sparked An E. Coli Outbreak In Lettuce? Scientists Trace A Surprising Source

Aug 29, 2018
Vegetable farmers in Yuma, Ariz., are asking whether they can co-exist in the same valley with a large cattle feedlot. Those cattle are blamed for contaminating Romaine with toxic E. coli bacteria.
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The Salt
Bobby Cox, who owns a 30-year-old vineyard in Lubbock, Texas, has seen many of his vines destroyed by herbicide drift.
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West Texas Vineyards Blasted By Herbicide Drift From Nearby Cotton Fields

Aug 21, 2018
Texas is one of the largest producers of wine in the U.S. But the grapevines in the High Plains are facing a threat that's causing them to twist and wither. And it's coming from the cotton fields.
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The Salt
A former Tysons CEO started a program in Rwanda teaching farmers how to raise chickens, but it faces several challenges, including the fact that the country has no infrastructure to support it.
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Former Tyson Foods CEO Brings Chicken Farming To Rwanda — But Can It Last?

Aug 09, 2018
The Smith family foundation aims to build a chicken business in Africa, but the extensive project is costly and difficult, and Rwanda cannot yet support a modern poultry industry without aid money.
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The Salt
Honeycrisp apples in Schwallier's orchard have been sprayed with calcium carbonate, a white substance that protects the apples from sunburn.
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A Few More Bad Apples: As The Climate Changes, Fruit Growing Does, Too

Aug 01, 2018
Apple growing is a ruthless business obsessed with good looks. Higher temperatures affect every part of of the fruit's life cycle, from more pests to changing color — and can even give them sunburn.
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Goats and Soda
Most people in the eastern rainforest region known as the Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor are small-scale farmers.
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Is What's Good For The Lemurs Also Good For The Locals?

Jul 11, 2018
To protect the ecosystem and its critters, Madagascar made it illegal to cut down rainforest land for agriculture — and promised to give farmers a new way to earn a living. How did that work out?
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World
"By somehow opening up the Canadian market to American producers, it is not going to solve their overproduction problem," says Murray Sherk, the owner of the family-run Pinehill Dairy in Plattsville, Ontario, here with daughter Melodie Sherk. "What they
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Why President Trump Hates Canadian Dairy — And Canada Insists On Protecting It

Jul 10, 2018
President Trump has railed against Canada when it comes to trade. A particular point of criticism is the dairy industry. Canada slaps steep tariffs on imports of milk, cheese and butter from the U.S.
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The Salt
Christina Dedora of Sanctuary Herbs of Providence works with herb farmer Chang Xiong to produce herbal teas.
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Politics Planted The Seed For A Business In Herbs And Teas

Jul 10, 2018
The 2016 U.S. presidential election led two women to create a business steeped in changing how immigrants are viewed by celebrating their contributions to agriculture.
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Shots - Health News
An increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide would lead to a decrease in the nutritional content of many foods, such as rice, seen here growing in Malaysia.
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How More Carbon Dioxide In The Air Could Lead To More Human Disease

Jul 03, 2018
Nutrients in crops fall as carbon dioxide rises. People who don't get enough of the right nutrients are more likely to get sick. Researchers have now estimated the effects.
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The Salt
Georgia's chicken prices were 30 to 50 percent higher than chicken prices elsewhere in 2015. Investors smelled a rat.
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How Wall Street Brought Down Georgia's Suspicious Chicken Price Index

May 17, 2018
When a bunch of Wall Street investors sniffed out a potential price fixing scheme in the poultry business, they bet against big chicken. Then they targeted a price index published in Georgia.
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The Salt
Rancher Les Dunmire, 66, says he's ready to retire but wants to make sure his children will not be forced to sell the ranch.
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Rural Lands At Risk As Ranchers Prepare For Retirement

Apr 25, 2018
Universities and ranch land advocates are offering estate planning classes to ranchers with a goal of saving their land from redevelopment.
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The Salt
Deb Gangwish with Farley, a cat that once stowed away in a truckload of hay and made it all the way from Nebraska to Illinois and back.
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A Grass-Roots Movement For Healthy Soil Spreads Among Farmers

Apr 09, 2018
America's farmers are digging soil like never before. A movement for "regenerative agriculture" is dedicated to building healthier soil and could even lead to a new eco-label on food.
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