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...the consolidation of smaller farms....
...“Running a farm wasn’t really part of my life plan,” she admits. But her husband Ant, who had grown up on the 400-acre farm, says he had always been drawn back....
...Farmers are typically paid $1 per acre each time they visit a site, usually two or three times a year, with about 200 sheep required per hundred acres....
...This means that about 400mn acres of farmland is set to change hands in the next decade or so, said Jordan Treakle from the National Family Farm Coalition....
...At first, people thought we were mad because it’s so remote, but I spent an idyllic childhood on my grandmother’s farm in Kent, and after living in both London and New York, I wanted to be back on the farm...
...This could reach 2mn acres of farmland by 2030, they say....
...Two early settlers could clear, on average, around five acres of old-growth forest per year, so it could take about three years to establish enough land for a viable farm; in the interim, the felled logs...
...Its owners Tim and Tamsin Wendt live in their own, gorgeous house on their 500-acre waterside property and have constructed two further two-bedroom houses with knockout views over the St Vincent Gulf....
...farm, sits at the foothills of the Black Mountains in Herefordshire....
...failing arable and dairy farm – back over to nature in 2001....
...“Kitchens have a really important role in driving this movement and keeping it financially viable,” says Holder, who works with grower Kate Forrester at Four Acre Farm in Ringwood in Hampshire....
...Stevens says that efficiency has improved on her 130-acre farm since she took up celestial gardening. “Before, I’d be starting seeds March to June but my gardens were super-weedy....
...The income included selling a long-term lease on 90 acres of land to Australian investors Macquarie, part of a complex deal that involves South Korean wind farm manufacturer SeAH becoming an anchor tenant...
...It told the life story of an Indiana orphan of that name who scrambles out of Depression-era hardship and makes a success of an arable farm over the subsequent decades....
...Although they will maintain 150 acres of blackcurrant cultivation, they will switch to regenerative practices, which restore the soil....
...The Pig on the Farm is five miles outside Stratford-upon-Avon, with 35 rooms spread between a 16th-century manor house and its surrounding farm buildings, set among 53 acres of pasture and arable land....
...Why The restored farm still maintains many of Deakin’s projects, including a 10ft-deep moat which he dredged himself and which featured in the book Waterlog, his ode to wild swimming....
...In Portsmouth, Virginia, Siemens Gamesa has leased 80 acres — a quarter of the port — for a blade manufacturing facility that will serve a wind farm 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach....
...After working on rented land in Bolivar County, late last year DFFI received $124,000 in funding from a local hospital, which enabled it to buy a 13-acre farm in the same area....
...His small farm lies near the Sasumua river, in the catchment area of one of the crucial water towers....
...Durslade Farm....
...This brand’s farm-to-skin approach is nurtured at its 350-acre farm in Borgo Santo Pietro, Tuscany....
...Jack Whitaker, John’s 22-year-old nephew (and son of showjumper Michael Whitaker), has joined us on the farm, having followed in the family’s sporting tradition. How many events has he won?...
...opened a farm shop in Arrowtown that could give Daylesford a run for its money....
...The 379-acre Banstead Manor Stud is the European headquarters of Juddmonte, which owns eight stud farms across America, Ireland and the UK....
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