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In California's lush Central Valley, Donald D. Sills, 50, wistfully recalls the good years, 1974 and 1975, when his own 160-acre farm and other acreage he leased netted him about $70,000 annually, mostly from rice. But last year, while farming 1,485 acres, he lost $60...
In the rolling fields of western Wisconsin last week, Jim Lemanski, 44, and his wife Martha, 43, watched their 330-acre farm near Fennimore being sold at auction. They had left Madison, where he had been an appliance salesman, less than four years ago, going $380,000 into debt to...
Beyond the emotional trauma of selling beloved land, farmers are finding buyers scarce and the returns slim. "Some land goes up for sale and doesn't even bring out a bidder, since nobody has much money," says the Illinois Farm Bureau's Dale Butz, brother of former Agriculture...
A special pendulum Johnson uses in a process she called radiesthezure spins wildly when held over a map of Beverly, Richards said, adding that the woman had determined a particular area of the 150-acre lake to search.
Roxbury police detective Thomas O'Rourke said yesterday that an "intensive investigation" is underway to find the assailant of Alice Bodnar, a Jamaica Plain resident who was released from the Faulkner Hospital in good condition March 31, two weeks after she was stabbed repeatedly in the back near the gate...