farm
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"Never in my wildest dreams did I think that a solar project would be on my farm," Cargil says.
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
Cargil's farm was at risk of ending with him, he says, with none of his three children wanting to farm full time.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Anne’s story begins as Rika on a farm in the Japanese countryside.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
She leaves the Good Sisters orphanage to live on her grandmother’s coconut farm in Manila.
From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly
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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
Airports remain closed or severely disrupted across much of North America, while railways, freight depots and farms struggle to operate.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
The bears, which arrived on Thursday, had been kept at one of South Korea's last bear bile farms – sites which have now been banned in the country.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Instead of planting berry bushes out in the open, as is often done in the U.S., it decided to grow them in greenhouses using water systems that couldn’t be contaminated by nearby farms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Fog drifting in from the northern Pacific Ocean blankets its rice paddies, apple orchards, and cattle farms.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
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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
A spokesperson for Daera said the court directed that the defendant be deprived of the ownership of all farmed animals and ordered their destruction.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
As slave workers, they produced low-cost vegetables and fruit, farmed fish and pork, and made uniforms, cement, pottery, and glassware for the crumbling economy outside the fence.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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Vicki Hird, agriculture lead at the Wildlife Trusts said "the scramble for green farming schemes was worse than the dash for Oasis tickets".
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2026
Sheen interviewed farming consultant turned campaigner Douglas Gowan shortly before his death, who had spent decades warning that communities were at risk of toxic chemicals.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
"The habitats that Slash's groundsnake is from are under threat from industries like coffee farming and mining," says Ruane.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Diesel, a key fuel for farming equipment, construction machinery and logistics, is now central to the oil shock.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The men, tired from fishing, farming, and hunting, had gathered in the dare, the men’s meeting place.
From "A Girl Named Disaster" by Nancy Farmer
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