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Spoiler Alert: New USDA App Helps Fight Food Waste
“Alert: Your peas will go bad in 1 day. Eat your peas, citizen.”
Mothering chicken eggs is not for everyone, but if you think it might be your calling, here's how to do it.
New Jersey Police Arrest Disorderly Goat
An easy way to get arrested in New Jersey is to headbutt a door repeatedly.
Review: The Rabbit-Raising Problem Solver
Keeping a pet rabbit is easy – you can even train it to use a litter box – and the experience can show young children how to responsibly handle small animals. But how to begin?
Will Soybeans Surpass Corn As America’s Biggest Crop?
Goodbye King Corn, hello Sir Soybean?
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria is Blowin’ in the Wind
There may be more than just the smell of manure downwind from large cattle feedlots in America’s Central Plains states. According to a new study, antibiotic-resistant bacteria coming from these businesses is being spread via the wind.
Welcome To The New World Of Farm Drones
A relatively inexpensive app, compatible with popular drones, could save farmers time and money.
California Olive Growers Cutting Down Orchards
Olives have never been California’s largest agricultural product – at its height, the industry only had a little over 35,000 acres of table olives – but as growers face low prices, high labor costs and dwindling water supplies, many are choosing to leave generations of olive-growing for a more lucrative crop.
Who Steals A Barn? Iowa Thieves, That’s Who
In Welton, Iowa, thieves have outdone themselves and stolen something that was, in fact, nailed down: a barn.
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