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Reading, writing and collecting the eggs
The first clue is a sign “Fresh Eggs for Sale” in front of the school. There is a sheep pen on the baseball field and the sounds of farm animals greet pupils every morning. This is not your ordinary elementary school. It is the Walton Rural Life Center, a kindergarten through fourth grade charter school
Memories of the “dust bowl” recalled as drought grips U.S. Great Plains
Nearly two-thirds of the U.S. is experiencing drought conditions and many say the outlook is getting worse
Real estate agent Mark Faulkner recalls a day in early November when he was putting up a sign near Ulysses, Kansas, in 60-miles-per-hour winds that blew up blinding dust clouds. “There were places you could not see, it was blowing so hard,” Faulkner said. Residents of the Great Plains over the last year or soU.S. communities explore new horse slaughter plants
A town in Missouri is trying to be the first of several in the United States to get a new plant to slaughter horses now that the U.S. Congress has overruled animal rights groups to allow the killing for the first time in five years. U.S. slaughter of horses ended in 2007 when Congress, at
With roots going back to 1925, each weekly issue of the Manitoba Co-operator contains production, marketing and policy news selected for relevance to crops and livestock producers in Manitoba.