A woman has married a farmer who abandoned her after her son’s birth.The couple, who live on the farm in Mie Prefecture, Japan, are the second couple to do so in two years.The bride is the second Japanese woman to marry a farmer, the first being Aya Mizuno, a retired school teacher from Hiroshima.The groom, […]
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What’s new in this edition
What’s New in This Issue The UK and UK-based Farm Bureau of England (FBOE) has issued its quarterly publication, Next Big Farm, and the news comes as the UK is on track to become the first country in the world to have its national dairy supply chain digitised and automated, with new data set to […]
Which farm table is best for the office?
In my experience, the bigger farm table has always been more comfortable, but now, with the popularity of the Office 365 Personal Cloud, I feel that smaller tables are just as good.We are getting more and more comfortable with working on the smaller tables in the office.I’m more inclined to use smaller tables, so that […]
California’s Mendocino County farm sex: Who cares?
In an area known for its farm-to-table restaurants and home-cooked meals, the biggest farm in California is still owned by its founder.Mendocinians, like their neighbors, don’t really seem to care.The farm is one of many that have been in the spotlight in recent months, and a recent investigation by the Los Angeles Times revealed that […]
Snake River Farmers to sell up to 5 million hectares for $5 million in a bid to revive its farming business
The farmers of the largest snake river farm in the world are to sell off up to five million hectares of farmland to raise the capital needed to revive their struggling business.The owners, who have struggled to pay their bills, are due to hand over the land in October, after which a final sale is […]
Maggie’s Farm, a small, family farm in Kentucky, faces the biggest possible loss
MANDATORY CREDIT/AP PhotoA tractor trailer plows through an agricultural field near the Millington, Ky., site of the closure of the Kentucky farm bureau in May.The closure of all farms in the state, including Maggie’s, on May 1 was the biggest farm bureau closure in the U.S. since 2008, and is the latest in a series […]
How to grow and harvest apples and pumpkins in your basement
We’ve all grown up on farms.They’ve been around since the 1800s.But the average American farmer today has never seen a farm.That’s because the U.S. agriculture industry is now run by just seven companies.The farms that once existed are largely gone, along with the farmers and the workers who used to support them.These companies are all […]
India’s biggest little farming project is now one big white flower farm
India’s first little farming farm is now part of a large project, and a white flower farmer says he’s “delighted”.“I think we’re the biggest little agriculture project ever.We’re the only ones here in the world that have two crops, two different crops, one in the morning, one at night,” said Manoj Bhattacharya, a farmer and […]