farm
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“A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid, I hated the whole idea of it,” George said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
“Growing up in Kentucky, all I wanted to do was get away from a farm, get away from that life,” George explained.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
The emotional cost and the long-term impact on the farm business are much harder to measure.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
“They have a loaded farm system,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2026
One is a list of all the things somebody can see as they look out over a farm.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
It therefore does not deal with “offices focused on banks, farms, unions, markets, land use, and trade. No need to worry about the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
Aquifer levels have continued to drop as corporate farms and investors have planted vast almond and pistachio orchards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Viraj Puri, founder and chairman of Gotham Greens, based in Brooklyn, said the company weighed reducing future plantings in its warehouse farms after a steep decline in sales but ultimately opted not to reduce seeding.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 2026
Large farms with more resources are investing in new technology.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Right now, there’s nothing but farms and vacant lots out there.
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Even inland species, such as tilapia or pond-based farmed shrimp, she said, could be affected by El Niño indirectly through a breakdown in fish meal supplies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Two-thirds of U.S. seafood is imported; much of that comes in the form of farmed fish, such as Atlantic salmon, tilapia and Vietnamese catfish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
His Bedouin ancestors earned great wealth pearl diving—until foreign farmed pearls tanked the market and left the local economy in shambles.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 19, 2026
Certain snake species are farmed in China for traditional medicine, meat and anti-venom.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 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
"This year is historic because the grapes have never been harvested in July before," said Matteo Castellani, head of the Coldiretti farming union for Casteggio, south of Pavia.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
Special accommodations should be made for those farming less than 200 acres, who often have limited resources compared to larger growers, the researchers said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
A drought can affect things including the environment, farming, or the water supply - what response the government and industry take depends on what the drought is affecting.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
Residents of Parsons, a sleepy farming outpost, agree on many things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
In most farming societies people focused on plant cultivation; raising animals was a secondary activity.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
