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Bull semen tanks full of straws stolen in Northern Ireland

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Two tanks containing straws of semen have been stolen from an outbuilding in a rural area of County Tyrone in Northern Ireland. The burglary is thought to have taken place between 3pm on 21 October and 1pm on 23 October on Ballyness Road, Clogher, County Tyrone.

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Black Earth: A Family’s Journey from Enslavement to Reclamation

Civil Eats

The governor of North Carolina had authorized the dumping of the soil, contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, which had been linked to cancer, in the rural county. In the rural Hecks Grove communityless than a mile from where Robert E. As director of farmer inclusion, his job is to distribute $1.7

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Corn Residue Creating Renewable Plastic

The Farmers Daughter USA

Although most of us imagine that it has something to do with swapping plastic straws for paper straw, it’s something that goes much further. This diversification of income sources supports rural economies and helps farmers maintain their livelihoods. A Pressing Problem Plastic pollution is a major problem.

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Investment Is Flowing to US Grass-fed Beef Again. Will It Scale Up?

Civil Eats

Glover’s eyes gazed out at an audience made up of a few dozen representatives of America’s largest grocers and food-service companies from beneath the brim of a straw cowboy hat. None of their money turns over in any of our rural communities.” Behind them, green pastures stretched into the distance toward looming, sand-colored peaks.

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Power, Profit, and Diversified Farming

ATTRA

Voices of farm workers, young people in shorts and muck boots and wide brimmed straw hats drift across the fields. I remember a warm summer day, the sun casting shadows of cornstalks on freshly tilled humic soil. ATTRA.NCAT.ORG.

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