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    Science
    Julie Bishop raises the Katahdin breed of sheep, which have hair rather than wool.
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    How To Have Your Solar Farm And Keep Your Regular Farm, Too

    Oct 09, 2020
    Large-scale solar farms are running into opposition from people who want to save farmland. Now solar companies are trying to combine solar and farming.
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    Environment
    Rich Showalter bought this land in 1975. He sold it earlier this year to Ray Williams, who hasn't yet had a chance to look at his new asset.
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    Big-Money Investors Gear Up For A Trillion-Dollar Bet On Farm Land

    Jul 30, 2020
    A trillion dollars worth of American farmland will change hands in the coming years. Wealthy investors are likely to buy more of it, with the power to shape rural communities and the environment.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Since COVID-19 has much of the Navajo Nation stuck at home, farmer Tyrone Thompson says it's the perfect time for them to return to their agricultural roots.
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    Navajo Nation Sees Farming Renaissance During Coronavirus Pandemic

    Jul 28, 2020
    The Navajo Nation is having a farming renaissance in the era of COVID-19. More residents are turning to traditional agriculture as they're under strict travel limits due to the coronavirus.
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    Environment
    Prairie strips in fields of corn or soybeans can protect the soil and allow wildlife to flourish. This strip was established in a field near Traer, Iowa, in 2015.
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    How Absentee Landowners Keep Farmers From Protecting Water And Soil

    Jul 14, 2020
    America's vast fields of corn and soybeans have displaced wildlife and polluted waterways. Farmers could help solve those problems, but often don't, in part because they rent that land.
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    Goats and Soda
    Rattan Lal in an Ohio cornfield. The soil scientist is this year's World Food Laureate, earning a quarter of a million dollar prize for his pioneering work in soil improvement.
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    Soil Prof Hits Pay Dirt: $250K Prize For Helping Farmers, Fighting Climate Change

    Jun 22, 2020
    Meet 2020 World Food Prize Laureate: Rattan Lal. His "soil-centric" philosophy is praised as being good for crops — and for mitigating climate change.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Young female pigs stand in a pen at a hog farm in Smithville, Ohio, U.S.
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    Opinion: Livestock Farmers, Without Options, Turn To Euthanasia

    May 16, 2020
    With meat packing plants and supply lines disrupted by the coronavirus, hog farmers are having to euthanize animals that were intended for food.
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    National
    Farmer Elizabeth Melson dries hemp in a converted garage in Sperryville, Va.
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    Budding Hemp Farmers Struggle To Find Success In The 'Green Rush'

    Nov 16, 2019
    CBD products are found everywhere from gas stations to drugstores. A record number of farmers are growing hemp for CBD this year, but making money has proved challenging.
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    Goats and Soda
    Corn from a fall harvest in Guatemala.
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    In Guatemala, A Bad Year For Corn — And For U.S. Aid

    Sep 30, 2019
    Last spring, Trump froze almost $500 million in funding to three Central American countries to pressure them to stop the flow of migrants. The impact on farmers could end up increasing migration.
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    The Salt
    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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    Education
    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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    Mickey Willenbring tends to one of her Navajo-Churro sheep at Dot Ranch in Scio, Ore.
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    After Combat, A Veteran Finds Solace In Sheep Farming

    Mar 01, 2019
    Army veteran Sgt. Mickey Willenbring was injured while serving in Iraq and also developed PTSD. Running a Navajo-Churro sheep farm has helped her cope with the lingering trauma of combat.
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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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    Goats and Soda
    A farmer picks coca leaves in a field in Colombia.
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    Colombia Tries To Get Farmers Out Of The Cocaine Biz. How's That Going?

    Nov 24, 2018
    If farmers uproot coca plants, whose leaves are used to make cocaine, the government has promised money, seeds and technology to help raise everything from peppercorns to pigs.
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    The Salt
    Arkansas farmer David Wildy inspects a field of soybeans that were damaged by dicamba in 2017.
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    The EPA Says Farmers Can Keep Using Weedkiller Blamed For Vast Crop Damage

    Nov 01, 2018
    The Environmental Protection Agency has given farmers the OK to continue to spray the controversial weedkiller dicamba. The chemical is prone to blowing in the wind and damaging other vegetation.
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    The Salt
    Josh Davis tends to his hog herd on his farm in Pocahontas, Ill. Once a popular breed, there are now only a few hundred American mulefoot hogs left.
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    Illinois Farmers Put Rare Pig Back On Dinner Table To Save It From Extinction

    Oct 31, 2018
    The American mulefoot hog was once popular, but began to die out in favor of fast-growing breeds suited to confinement. But some farmers hope to renew interest in the hogs — by getting them on menus.
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    The Salt
    The barley used to make beer as we know it may take a hit under climate change, but growers say they are already preparing by planting it farther north in colder locations.
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    Bye-Bye, Beer? Brewers Say They've Got A Plan On Climate Change

    Oct 18, 2018
    A scientific paper published this week predicts climate change will send beer prices skyrocketing and drastically reduce the barley crop. It got tons of media attention. But is beer really doomed?
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    Hemp Industry Grows In Nevada

    Aug 15, 2018

    Hemp is used to make products like cloth and CBD oil, the popular dispensary product that treats pain and anxiety but doesn’t get you high.

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    The Salt
    A female blue orchard bee forages for nectar and pollen on <em>Phacelia tanacetifolia</em> flowers, also known as blue or purple tansy. Blue orchard bees are solitary bees that help pollinate California's almond orchards.
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    Watch This Native Pollinator Build Her Bee-Jeweled Nest

    Aug 14, 2018
    Research shows that 400 female blue orchard bees are as effective at pollinating almonds as the more than 10,000 bees in a honeybee hive. But they reproduce slowly and are prone to wandering.
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    The Salt
    Orchard manager Justin Meduri says he is thrilled with the results of the laser system protecting his crop. "There's not one bird that you see flying around," he says.
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    Growers Are Beaming Over The Success Of Lasers To Stave Off Thieving Birds

    Aug 12, 2018
    Laser beams that sweep erratically across crops have shown promise in protecting harvests from loss caused by birds. But researchers are still studying whether the beams may harm the animals' retinas.
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    Is the Farming Future of Las Vegas Indoors?

    Aug 02, 2018

    Contrary to a common misperception, there is farming in the Mojave Desert, despite water scarcity, blazing heat, and rock-hard soil.

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    The Salt
    A researcher gathers breadcrumbs at an excavation site in Jordan. The 14,000-year-old crumbs suggest that ancient tribes were quite adept at food-making techniques, and developed them earlier than we had given them credit for.
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    14,000-Year-Old Piece Of Bread Rewrites The History Of Baking And Farming

    Jul 24, 2018
    Breadcrumbs found at an excavation in Jordan reveal that humans were baking thousands of years earlier than previously believed. It may have even prompted them to settle down and plant cereals.
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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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    The Salt
    The booming real estate market has driven up prices to the point where Rhode Island now has the most expensive farmland in the country. The state is trying to preserve some land for farmers.
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    Rhode Island Bets The Farm That Cheap Land Will Help Local Agriculture Thrive

    Jul 03, 2018
    The state is about to offer bargain basement prices on something that's become increasingly unaffordable: real estate. But the land must be used for farming only.
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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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    The Salt
    Cheryse Sana, farm co-manager, cuts a banana blossom off a tree at MA'O Organic Farms.
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    Youth Farm In Hawaii Is Growing Food And Leaders

    Mar 28, 2018
    The program practices tough love — Hawaiians call it kuleana, or a sense of personal responsibility. Kids commit to more than two years of work, and get free college tuition for their "sweat equity."

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