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How to Attract Beneficial Bugs
The bug eating bugs are the ones you want in your garden.
A New Alternative to Antibiotics?
This new technology could one day replace the use of antibiotics in livestock and perhaps even humans for a variety of pathogenic digestive tract infections.
How Can Egg Prices Be Going Up While Chicken Prices Are Going Down?
Which came first? Who knows. A better question: Which comes cheapest?
Once troublesome for growers, these tasty brambles have been tamed as new, improved varieties hit the market.
Meet the Modern Farmer: Julie Johnston
“We thought if we could make it farming here, we’d be living the dream.”
Nestlé To Turn California Factory To A “Zero Water” Facility
A milk processing plant that requires absolutely no outside water to operate. How?
A Brief History of Peking Duck
There aren’t many dishes that can claim a royal lineage going back more than 700 years. Peking duck can. According to the official website of Beijing, the dish, known variously as Peking duck, Beijing duck or simply Chinese roast duck, among other names, had its beginnings in the Yuan Dynasty (1271 to 1368), a time when the Mongol Emperors ruled China.
Five Things You Never Knew About Ducks
Male ducks are called drakes and female ducks are usually referred to as, well, ducks. A group of ducks may be called a brace, raft, skiff, team, paddling or sord, depending on where you’re from. Here are a few other duck facts we bet you didn’t know.
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