As the coronavirus has spread across the country, weak links in the food supply chain that have created temporary shortages have led to real worries about food insecurity. Google searches for things like gardening and food preservation have exploded, much to the delight of many health advocates. However, the recent surge in backyard chicken farming …
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The American spirit lives on at a 300-year-old, cream-line dairy farm, where a farmer is working around the clock to bottle his own milk after his processor told him to dump it. Locals are lining up to support him. Brown’s Whoa Nellie Dairy farm has been providing high-quality, cream-line milk since the 1700s. He sells …
Dairy Farmer Decides to Bottle His Own Milk Rather than Dump It. Sells Out in Hours. Read More »
Solar is being installed at an increasing clip across the United States with large-scale projects looking to farms for the massive tracts of land needed for their development. In fact, I’ve personally spoken with and talked to several landowners who have recently inked longterm leases (10 to 30 years) on +800 acre tracts for between …
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Nobody wants to talk about it… but as coronavirus makes its way into rural America we have to address the 800-pound gorilla in the room. Do you have a plan on the farm if one or more of your key employees goes down? With many small to medium-sized farm operations counting on one or two …
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Laird & Company is synonymous with apple spirits, producing the vast majority of all Applejack and American Apple Brandy on the market. The Laird family began distilling in America in 1698 after Alexander Laird emigrated from County Fife, Scotland, where he had already perfected his distilling technique. Apples were the most abundant natural resource in …
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