NY Times: Patrick Maignan, a robust gray-haired farmer, lives alone on his farm, surrounded only by the freshly plowed wheat fields of this lonely corner of northern France. The New York Times The lack of love in the countryside is a serious topic. Far from tourist routes and cellphone coverage, he works seven days a […]
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Andrew Logan has what every manufacturer craves: an endless source of free raw materials that his suppliers can’t wait to dump and a market starving for his product, reports Fortune Small Business. Logan, a biologist in Idaho Springs, Colo., turns waste from breweries into a fish-food ingredient. His company, Oberon FMR, spent a decade refining
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According to Grand Forks Herald, the next time you see a field being tended by a farmer, he probably won’t be driving the tractor. Initially, the tractors will be primarily for tillage. They’ll have “follow-me†technology, to trail behind a lead vehicle between fields and then follow another tractor, “just like a hired hand would.â€
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How to Start a Goat Farm Behind every farm there is a unique story and for Mike and Shannon Wiggins it all started with a couple goats. Their daughter became involved in 4H and they soon learned what exactly would need to be done if they wanted to be seen as a serious farm. After
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Chicago Tribune: At 22, Scott Skelly already has a national reputation in his field – corn. The recent college graduate has been creating corn mazes since he was an enterprising 9-year-old who persuaded his dad to let him cut a few paths with dead ends in a cornfield on the family’s 200-acre farm. His first
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Burlington Free Press: It makes Bob Vasseur chuckle that people from around the world have “adopted†maple trees in his family’s Bragg Hill sugarbush through his neighbor Dori Ross’s year-old Tonewood Maple business. Vasseur, 80, has been sugaring, he said, “as long as I can remember and then some.†The three-generation operation sells most of
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Looking for something new to farm? What about salt? From the outside, Midge Jolly’s newest salt house looks like an igloo that went long instead of domed. Inside, though, a block of ice wouldn’t stand a chance. “Actually some friends have asked us if we’ll lend it out as a sauna,” Jolly says. “It can
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SGGP: The machine can pick up 120 tons of unhusked rice in eight hours, consuming only four liters of petrol. Nguyen Van Hong has so far manufactured four such machines and sold three of them for VND25 million (US$1,202) each, to other farmers in the area. He has kept one machine for his own personal
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If Small Farm Central is any indication, there’s a niche out there for everyone. The web business, run by Simon Huntley, gives small farmers the tools to build a Web presence without paying thousands of dollars to do it. Huntley said a Web site gives farmers exposure they might not otherwise have, particularly when they’re
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You know what they say: The family that tends bees together get’s stung together. I’ve recently decided to purchase some hives and bees and have a go at being a beekeeper. Good to see that others are profiting from it: What started as a trip to the library has now turned into a family-owned business
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