63 articles on "farm"

So You'd Like to. . .Learn More About Living on a Farm

Forty years ago when I was a little girl growing up on our dairy farm in west central Wisconsin, I thought everyone lived on a farm. Then again, many of my kindergarten classmates lived on farms, too, so maybe I wasn’t completely off base.Later on,...

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Dairy Farms - Why Should You Own One?

A farm is an area of land that includes several structures and serves for practicing production and management of food grains and livestock. A dairy farm is the basic production unit of production of food. Dairy farming is pretty popular in many pla...

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New Evidence Shows The Lasting Effects of Pesticide Exposure

A new study suggests that moderate exposure to pesticides could yield long-term negative results to the people exposed to them. These findings should serve as warning to those who indiscriminately spray pesticides around the house, exposing their chi...

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Farmers Market Game Review

Farming isn't just about tending chickens and growing corn. Half the fun is showing off your products and earning decent cash for all your hard work! That's what you get to do in Farmers Market, where you sell your vegetables, dairy product...

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New Hope for Old Farmers: Americans Long For Life 'Down on the Farm'

New Hope for Old Farmers: Americans Long For Life 'Down on the Farm' by: LeAnn R. Ralph Imagine my surprise when I read an article in the April 2005 edition of Reader's Digest informing me that membership in Future Farmers of Amer...

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Don't Go In- Free Short Story To Add To Your Fiction, Sci-Fi Ezine

Don't Go In- Free Short Story To Add To Your Fiction, Sci-Fi Ezine by: Laura Hickey Don't Go In Have you watched a scary movie and then gone to bed right after? Your mind scrambles with ideas about different movie endings or parts of ...

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Minnesota Affirms Atrazine Regulation Is Protective

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA), the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) this month completed a special registration review of the corn herbicide atrazine for the State of Minnesota. ...

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News Release Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows Roam

October 2004For Immediate Release…Give Me a Home Where the Dairy Cows RoamCOLFAX, WISCONSIN — Did you know that since 1969, the United States has lost 85 percent of its dairy farms. And did you know that since 1969, Wisconsin has lost nearly 70 p...

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Chosing Organic for Health

Chosing Organic for Health by: Marjorie Geiser, RD We come from a society where growing organic and just growing produce and livestock for food was once one and the same. Small, family farms still grow their own food using traditional methods pa...

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Whatever Happened to Christmas?

Whatever Happened to Christmas? by: LeAnn R. Ralph Remember when no one started Christmas shopping until after Thanksgiving? Wisconsin author LeAnn R. Ralph remembers it very well. "When I was growing up on our dairy farm forty years ago, the st...

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