Family farms articles
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These sisters became co-owners of the family farm at 22 and 24, joining the ranks of women as key decision-makers on farms
Women make many of the day-to-day decisions on farms, and manage the business finances. Here's how the women of Alstede Farms showcase this trend.
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‘Shelbourne really has held our family together. Families come and go in football terms, but Shels is a family. The league is a family’
Brothers Eric and Maurice Frazer gaze out across Tolka Park as the groundsman is putting the finishing touches to the pitch. It’s Friday night, it’s Shelbourne against St Patrick’s Athletic and a big derby awaits on Dublin’s northside.
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Conservation Funding Helps Keep Family Farms Viable
Conservation Funding Helps Keep Family Farms Viable Authored by Tom Croner via RealClear Wire, I’m an 81-year-old, seventh-generation farmer working with my son T. Richard on a multigenerational grain and hay farm in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. We grow corn, soybeans, wheat, rye, and hay. I'm proud to see him out there by himself at night, and regret that I can’t always join him. As the Bible says in John 3:16: “That God so loved the world, he gave his only son.” I don’t know...