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Olly Harrison takes a selfie with fans at Agritechnica 2023 in Germany where he was awarded Agri-Influencer of the Year.

Pros and pitfalls of being a digital poster child for farming

Agriculturally-leaning social media influencers use their online presence to bring farm stories directly to consumer, but it also puts them and their farms in a sometimes uncomfortable spotlight

Agriculturally-leaning social media influencers use their online presence to bring farm stories directly to consumer, but it also puts them and their farms in a sometimes uncomfortable spotlight

Luc Persyn displays some of his more recent findings, among them an unexploded bomb and a hand grenade.

Iron Harvest: Farming on deadly ground

One hundred years after the fact, Europe’s battlegrounds can still yield a deadly crop

October 19, 2014 was a warm and sunny day and West Flemish farmer Luc Persyn needed to do a little plowing. Little did he know that would almost kill him. When Persyn first heard the thump beneath his tractor he assumed he’d simply hit a rock, but then the cab slowly began to fill with