If, like me, you keep track of the price of commercial chicken feed, you know that for some hipsters, raising chickens in your backyard has become an incredibly popular urban hobby. The hobby has continued to grow, evening during the recession, because of the free eggs. The free eggs don’t go on forever, though. At […]
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A herd of dairy farmers were having dinner one evening when someone wondered aloud if there wasn’t something that they could do with all of the bovine excrement. In jest, someone else asked, “Can’t you guys make a flowerpot or something with the stuff?” Those were fateful words for brothers Ben and Matthew Freund, second-generation
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NY Times: The world doesn’t necessarily need the gazillion-and-one games that seem available on smartphones. But it could use more apps and services that address the needs of business people with specialized needs. Like farmers. FarmLogs, a start-up based in Ann Arbor, Mich., is a one of a few new companies that are making a
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A farmer in Colorado tried hiring American workers in place of migrant labor. It didn’t go so well: “It didn’t take me six hours to realize I’d made a heck of a mistake,†Mr. Harold said, standing in his onion field on a recent afternoon as a crew of workers from Mexico cut the tops
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