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Avalon Farm

June 29, 2012 By admin

Earning a Living from the Land, and Water Winchester, Kentucky Amongst the gently rolling hills of Winchester, Kentucky, just 15 miles outside of Lexington, is the 556 acre Avalon Farm, with beef cattle in the pasture, a greenhouse set aside for raising quail, twenty acres devoted to vegetable crops, and about twenty acres planted in […]

Filed Under: Aquaculture, Direct Marketing, Direct: farm stand, Diversified, Diversified farming (USDA stories), Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Fruits, Greenhouse Production, Horticultural crops, Kentucky, Livestock, Marketing - Ag specific, Methods, Vegetables

North American Fish Farmers Cooperative

June 29, 2012 By admin

Growing tilapia, a warm water tropical fish, in cold weather North Dakota might seem as out of place as…well…a fish out of water. Yet a few enterprising farmers have done just that, with notable success. The result is an emerging aquaculture industry in the state.  One of the first North Dakota farmers to diversify into […]

Filed Under: Aquaculture, Business - cooperative, Farming, Ranching and Landscaping, Livestock, North Dakota

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