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The Business Behind the Farm Visit

Modern Farmer

Visitors to Topaz Farm on Sauvie Island just outside of Portland, Oregon last October didn’t encounter a corn maze but rather a kid’s maze cut through a field of sorghum. It’s easier on the soil, explains Kat Topaz, who owns the farm along with Jim Abeles. We call ourselves an ‘experience farm,’” says Topaz.

Farming 121
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Rewilding: Threat or promise for hill farming?

Sustainable Food Trust

A cause for controversy Unsurprisingly, it’s an approach that hasn’t been particularly well received by the hill farming community. It’s a frustrating situation, not least because most people probably agree that there is space for hill farming and rewilding to coexist. However, two points of caution are worth making.

Farming 98
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Industry Ag News 7/21

Agwired

This year’s event was held at Montana Farmers Union’s Arrowpeak Lodge in Highwood, MT. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced bipartisan legislation to increase transparency and oversight of foreign ownership in the American agricultural industry.