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Nurturing a Path to Success for Small, Sustainable Sheepherders

Food Tank

Be a poet, do whatever, just no animal science.’ Instead, Wahl took any agriculture-related class he could—soil science, crop growing, feed—and tapped into his family’s network of farmers to learn everything he needed to know about animal health. With Niman Ranch, you know what you’re going to get,” says Wahl.

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Farm Bill Coalition Letter

NASDA

Sincerely, AgCountry Farm Credit Services AgCredit, ACA AgGeorgia Farm Credit AgriBank, FCB AgriBusiness Association of Kentucky Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agricultural Leaders of Michigan Agricultural Retailers Association Agriculture Energy Coalition Agri-Mark, Inc.

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Producing the Perfect Potato and Soil Health to Handle Environmental Stress—The Perry Farm—Chin, Alberta

RR2CS

They have a very advanced group of people working on soil science,” he says. Harold and his family are farming with future generations in mind. It looks like a fifth generation might be coming to our farm,” he says. The Perry’s also source manure from neighbouring feedlots to compost and mix into the soil.

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