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...The huge Harvest dining table (£37,200), meanwhile, was handmade by Tim Dunleavy and his brother at Dunleavy Bespoke on their family farm in Kildare....
...And as the 60,000-strong seasonal workforce will likely be unable to travel from Europe to UK farms, local labour will be needed to help bring in the harvest....
...And there are rigid timetables for when and how farmers can harvest, sow and plough their land, which take little account of local circumstances....
...This is one of three New York salad vegetable farms run by Gotham Greens, a seven-year-old company (there is another farm in Chicago and four more will open this year)....
...The orchards of England’s west country this week shook to the sound of annual wassail, as growers danced and caroused among their apple trees, a medieval ritual meant to ensure a bountiful harvest....
...What An Grade II*-listed manor house dating to the 16th century with eight bedrooms and five reception rooms....
...the family-owned farm and factory in Suffolk....
...a spring planting “launch zone” from Colorado in the west to New York in the east – and has teamed with Gavilon, a subsidiary of Marubeni of Japan, which promises to buy any Duracade corn that farmers harvest...
...Their reward for accepting an inferior status is that they can farm the common land and enjoy a measure of prosperity with the produce thereby gleaned....
...The large harvest swings mean that GrainCorp’s profitability, from time to time, would suffer big drops....
...At the same time, disastrous wheat harvests in Russia and Canada have meant some UK farm commodity prices have gone through the roof,” explains Edward Sugden at search agency Property Vision....
...On the sandy and chalk soil of Manor Farm at Wotton, near Dorking, Surrey, Laurence Matthews points out the gaps between the rows of crops in a field that should be a single mass of leaves....
...Silver Bait LLC produces fishing worms by the millions. But that’s only the beginning of what it produces....
...Locals claim the crabs are often reared on farms elsewhere before “taking a shower” in the lake so they can be labelled as Yangcheng crabs....
...For excellent organic cheese visit the Classic Farm Shop at Manor Farm in St Peter. (+44 (0)1534 485692)...
...But other markets such as agriculture can increasingly profit from accurate information: farmers can use the data, for instance, to decide when to harvest....
...When Chivite bought the 700ha Señorío de Arínzano estate in 1988, it was a wheat farm in a valley traversed by the river Ega....
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