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...commercial operations are still gobbling up family farms and producing an increasing share of farm output. But in some cases, rather than demolishing yet another farmhouse and barn and turning that small portion of the land over to industrial cultivation, new owners will put those buildings and a few acres on the market untouched, and find ready buyers among the city slickers yearning to raise llamas or alpacas or grow grapes or lavender...
...curious new customer at the local supply store. Dude farmers, says Carol Ekarius, author of Hobby Farm: Living Your Rural Dream for Pleasure and Profit, are "picking up bales of hay in their Jaguar." Amusing as that is, the results are not all good. Hobby farmers drive up land prices in hot areas. They also raise big-picture concerns about total farm output. Hobbyists get far less yield per acre than the lifetime pros, and in times of food shortage they would further crimp the supply, usda officials warn...
...there appears to be no stopping the trend, which is fueled not just by retirees getting in touch with the land but also by a rapid rise in the market for organic foods, which these farms tend to produce. If it sounds like something you'd like...
...from meddling in UC affairs unless University policy or the law is expressly violated. Funding of underage drinking may or may not warrant such intervention—the Office of General Counsel and the administration seem to say different things here—and the lay of the legal land remains muddled. Regardless, the College’s response thus far overreaches; to impinge upon student groups and House life for the sake of the Party Fund is unfair.To illustrate, the College’s new policy requiring receipts for disbursement—meant to crack down on students...
...killed than at any time before," Lt. Col. Robert Balcavage told TIME. Balcavage, commander of the 1st Battalion, 501st Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 25th Division, said the locally organized Sunni groups have already driven al-Qaeda out of the urban areas and into a rough no-man's land to the north, sandwiching them precariously between his paratroopers and elements of the 10th Mountain Division. In and around Musayyib to the south, the Shi'ite groups have manned checkpoints along roadways that once hid bombs. Since late July, roughly about the time the militias started working...