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farm

[fahrm] / fɑrm /




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“I’m thinking about changing careers,” said Vasilenko, who has run his own farm since 2010.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026

Crates stacked at a grape farm in Fresno County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

"It got real personal," he says, when a solar farm was built next to his family's cemetery.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Consider a slice of pumpkin pie: This is “prime pumpkin season” in Illinois, the country’s top supplier of the gourd, said Jacob Goebbert, co-owner and operations manager of a farm in South Barrington, Ill.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Nils, one of our workers, had come to report old Katrien safely arrived at a farm north of Alkmaar.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

He pointed out that after years of extreme weather, many farmers were relying on the funding to help adapt their farms to climate change and become more resilient.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

Rising diesel prices have carved Goebbert’s margins, but he hasn’t raised prices; his in-state distribution network doesn’t require as much driving as farms with customers across state lines.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026

Insect farming tends to dominate the re-establishment of bird or mammal farms.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Over email, a spokesperson for Imperia said the brand was founded in 2018 and its caviar comes from “select farms across Europe, Asia and South America.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Ten pounds of sugar and two dozen clothespins felt like quite a load in that late afternoon heat, so I decided to travel cross-lots, which meant cutting across neighbors’ farms.

From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney

Climate change likely plays a role, since they prefer warmer water, but the farmed oysters introduced in the 1970s and ’80s may have helped by cleaning up the river.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 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

Experts will also need to look at the whole supply chain, investigating where the eggs or egg products have been eaten, supplied stored and farmed, for example.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

Visiting one celebrated restaurant in San Francisco, he describes the preparation of commercially farmed abalone steaks as someone who knows his way around a commercial kitchen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

In her view, monumental buildings implied a large resident population, but again there were plenty of anchovy bones and little evidence that locals farmed anything but cotton.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann

"This is a scheme that works for farmers, backs food production, and delivers practical, sustainable land management, supporting the aims of our farming roadmap, our long-term plan for English farming," he said.

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026

With far less leisure time and diminished income, recreational facilities are turned over to food production, notably small-scale greenhouses and vertical farming for producing varied fruits, vegetables, nuts and legumes.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

In Omaha, he cycled through various careers: He started his own excavating business, then began farming, with Warren Buffett later purchasing a farm for him to work.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026

He said it had been rewarding and different - a relief to the tough challenges of day-to-day farming.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

I put together a collection of photographs of Middle Eastern farms and farming.

From "Because of Mr. Terupt" by Rob Buyea




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