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Posts by Jesse Hirsch

Staff Writer, Modern Farmer

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11 Delightful Vintage Farm Commercials

For many decades, farm life has been trotted out as a picturesque, wholesome ideal, to peddle everything from hotcakes to soap. We've rounded up 11 of our favorites for your Friday...

by Jesse Hirsch· November 8, 2013
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Made in Portland: The $110 Cologne for Cows

A mother cow tracks her calves by scent, and will grow anxious if separated. Smell is the main love currency between bulls and their mates. And cows have proven skittish about the ...

by Jesse Hirsch· November 4, 2013
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In Season: Apples

Modern Farmer’s harvest column, where we highlight what is seasonal, talk to the growers and share a recipe or two. This week: apples.

by Jesse Hirsch· October 30, 2013
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Exterminating the Goats of Galapagos

Everyone knows of goats' mythical appetites -- that's why they're killer for clearing brush and invasive weeds. But set them loose on an island, mating and eating everything in sig...

by Jesse Hirsch· September 18, 2013
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The Silky, Milky, Totally Strange Saga of the Spider Goat

But let's get this out of the way: These goats can't set webs to catch their prey, they don't possess super-strength, and they aren't tottering around the barn on eight bony legs (...

by Jesse Hirsch· September 16, 2013
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The New and Improved GoatCam!

They're baaaaaack! Pick up an official ModFarm Goat Week t-shirt.

by Jesse Hirsch· September 15, 2013
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Gators and Rattlers and Buzzards and Boars: The Wild Side of NASA’s Campus

With the ease of say, New Yorkers griping about train delays, NASA employees discuss encounters with boars and bald eagles, raccoons and rattlesnakes, bobcats and buzzards. It’s a wild place.

by Jesse Hirsch· September 13, 2013
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Space Farming: The Final Frontier

Space farming. The final frontier.

by Jesse Hirsch· September 10, 2013
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So You Want to Be a Cattle Rustling Ranger?

Do you have what it takes?

by Jesse Hirsch· September 9, 2013
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