farm
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"There will be fewer potatoes grown going forward. They are a very expensive crop to grow," says Tim when the BBC visits his farm near Helmsley.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
O’Keeffe spent her childhood on a farm in Sun Prairie, Wisc., and the first gallery, filled with nine paintings of rural structures, recalls those roots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Agriculture are requesting information from the public regarding the farm equipment market.
From Barron's ● Oct. 7, 2026
He also worked in the farm fields with his dad and sometimes with his uncles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
“Do you want us to freeze to death out here? Do you? The farm is only a few hours away, twelve kilometers, maybe less. Now get a grip on yourself and just walk.”
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
They’ve popped up in barns and on farms, in strip malls between an antique shop and an ax-throwing business and in churches, where lighting and sound for worship services is part of the curriculum.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
But even in 2026, Abuja can still look half-built, its pockmarked downtown home to modern office buildings alongside empty lots and even farms that pre-date its founding.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Because of the lack of snow this year, the state water board ordered farms to stop taking water from the Scott River in June.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Stuckey credits the success of the local restaurant scene in part to the area’s many organic and regenerative farms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
It turned out that there were many homes and farms lying empty and deserted in the countryside.
From "An Elephant in the Garden" by Michael Morpurgo
Arable land farmed by a family for about 80 years is to be restored to an orchard and wildlife area.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
In 1900, 41% of American workers farmed; by 2000, fewer than 2% did, and the population was richer and better nourished and lived longer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Steve Cargil's family has farmed the flat, dry land around Uvalde, a small city in southwest Texas, since 1953.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Researchers are using species recently approved for human consumption as models and comparing the genomes of farmed insects with those of pre-domestication individuals preserved in entomological collections.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 27, 2026
The first cereal was probably millet—not the millet eaten today, which originated in Africa, but a cousin species, knotweed bristle- grass, which is no longer farmed.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
The biggest pressures come from farming, which can destroy the habitats wildlife depends on, and burning fossil fuels for energy, which drives climate change.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Farmer Preston Arrington, who has a 2,100-acre farm in Mississippi, told MarketWatch on Tuesday that when he bought a truckload of red-dyed diesel for his farming equipment a month ago, he paid $4.12 a gallon.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 6, 2026
Brazil’s booming agribusiness sector, fueled by soaring Chinese demand for Brazilian soybeans, beef and other commodities, has also given greater economic and political clout to the country’s conservative farming heartland.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
Corteva, a farming input maker, is now two companies, Corteva and Vylor.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
Culver, a prominent local citizen and practitioner of diversified farming, his handsome daughter, Miss Tansy Culver, two young sons, and Mr. Culver’s sister-in-law, Miss Singleterry, who was flung some distance off the tailgate.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
