farming
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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
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
At that time, it was killing people in small, mobile hunter-gatherer groups - long before farming and urban life created the crowded conditions usually associated with major plague outbreaks.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
Diesel is embedded in trucking, farming and everything on a shelf, and it hits corporate margins months before it hits your receipts.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
“And I think we’d better keep this monkey business to ourselves. If word gets out, every farmer in these hills will quit farming and start hunting monkeys. We can’t have that at all.”
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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