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Jeremy Puma in invironmentAug 6, 20154 min read

Interview: Timothy Boucher, “Farmer of Quebec”

What’s the deal with the “real” Timothy Boucher?

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MichaelFeb 156 min read

The state of Crop Modelling

The ability to know your crops yield potential at any point in the season is a great asset. It improves your ability to make future economic decisions, such as forward selling grain or purchasing next years inputs, as well as decisions right now, which are generally nitrogen…

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Farmer Al?Apr 25 min read

Nice to meet you, Chickens.

Week 1: March 29 — April 1

Mike ElganFeb 182 min read

A short note about the ethics of eating meat

Disagreement about the ethics of eating meat are good. Confusion about those ethics are not.

Most people are non-vegetarians. But many are conflicted and uncertain about the ethics of eating meat. We’ve all heard about the…

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t♭ in invironmentAug 26, 20156 min read

Four-Figure Farming

I feel like a failure.

I won’t try to sugar-coat it. I know it’s only my first year and that I’m still getting established and trying to figure it out. But still, it’s hard not feeling like that after all the effort put in and the returns from it. Though, maybe at the…

t♭ in invironmentJan 312 min read

Seeking new farm financial data…

Are you a new small and especially organic/environmental farmer? Do you know someone who is? Or are you just someone who likes research related to agriculture and sustainable food systems?

Stephanie AaronsonOct 27, 20153 min read

Keeping them close

Shelby Isabelle “Belle” Quarles tosses corn found on the ground, dances on farm equipment, then takes off in a sprint down…

Rogue Ales & Spirits in Rogue Ales & SpiritsMar 313 min read

It Takes A Lot Of String To Grow A Beer

One of the things we love about farming is watching our ingredients come to life.

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Lucy Hattersley in invironmentMar 33 min read

Build a cheap RFID Tag reader for UK Livestock using RaspberryPi Zero

Following retirement from my career as a medical doctor, I now have a smallholding of some 40 acres with three flocks of rare breed sheep numbering about 150 in total.

AGRAFeb 1512 min read

By Agnes Kalibata

Smallholders Front and Center

Because they aren’t satisfied with poverty as a way of life

Across sub-Saharan Africa, roughly 70 percent of the population works in agriculture, almost all of it small-scale. It stands to reason, then, that…