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Becoming a member of a community supported farm can be a challenge as well as a joy. Gary Brever of Ploughshare Farm, Kate Stout of North Creek Community Farm, and Margaret Marshall of Featherstone Farm explain the risks and rewards of membership and give some tips for picking a farm that’s right for you.

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The big business of farming in the US is booming but undocumented migrants make up more than half of the farming workforce. They are ripe for exploitation and face low salaries, substandard housing, risk of injury, pesticides and heat stroke. Some literally work themselves to death. In this episode, Inside USA investigates farming in the era of free trade.

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I’m Alex Villarreal with the VOA Special English Agriculture Report, from http://voaspecialenglish.com | http://facebook.com/voalearningenglish

For American soldiers, the move from the military to civilian life is not always easy. Military veterans have a thirty-five percent unemployment rate. This is more than three times the national average. And an estimated one hundred thousand veterans are homeless. The federal government and private organizations offer programs to help veterans. One private program is called Archi’s Acres. It is on a two hectare farm in southern California.Marine Sergeant Colin Archipley returned to the United States after serving three tours of duty in Iraq. He and his wife, Karen, bought a farm in southern California. They produce organic, hydroponic crops. They grow their tomatoes, lettuce and basil in pure water instead of in soil. Karen Archipley says her husband wanted to share the peace he found on his farm with other veterans. So the Archipleys worked with the local Veterans Administration office. They wanted to help returning troops translate their leadership skills to private business. Archi’s Acres is helping combat veterans become agricultural business owners. Colin Archipley is expanding his program to teach business skills. And he plans to include active troops who are ending their service. He notes that many veterans suffer from post traumatic stress disorder. This is made worse when they cannot find jobs and become homeless. He believes that the rate of PTSD would drop if soldiers could spend their last few months in the military learning skills so they could get jobs. In his new six-week program, Colin Archipley will teach agricultural skills from planting to harvest. Karen Archipley will teach marketing. Educators from the Small Business Administration are also involved. They will teach classes on how to operate a business. Colin Archipley does not expect veterans completing the program will have any problems finding work. He hopes to expand his program to serve veterans on the East Coast. He is also planning to make his six-week course available online so anyone in the military, anywhere, can take the classes.For VOA Special English I’m Alex Villarreal. You can find scripts, podcasts and MP3s on our website, voaspecialenglish.com. And you can follow us on Facebook, Twitter and iTunes at VOA Learning English.

(Adapted from a radio program broadcast 28Dec2011)

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Another food nasty coming down the pipeline – it’s more of the same, support industrial agri-business, oppose small/organic farming. Problem is, it’s the industrial agri-monsters that are the problem!

Links to check:

Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

http://www.farmandranchfreedom.org/content//food_safety_bills_09

S. 510:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510

To find out who your Senators are, go to:

http://www.congress.org/

Capitol SwitchBoard:

(202) 224-3121

Stop this bill as it is!

Peace.

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I just received the Ag Tradeshow Report written by my friend Tobias Eichberg. If you’re in the business of providing products or services to farmers and ranchers and you go to trade shows. This is a must have planning book.

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The sequel to the best-selling worldwide hit “Farming Simulator” has loads of new features!

Assume the role of a farmer experiencing the challenge of 18 hour days running a new farm in the middle of beautiful rolling countryside.

You start the game by choosing from a small collection of vehicles and machinery to explore your fairly sparse farmland which measures just 4 km. As you progress through the game you complete a variety of tasks like breeding and feeding the cows or spreading manure, milking, plowing, seeding and baling to build up wealth to invest in newer and better equipment and machinery.

Multi-player mode allows you to manage your farm together with friends over the Internet or local area network.

With career mode you take on the role of a young farmer and experience the workaday life of the countryside in a completely adaptable world.

Choose from loads of authentic licensed farming equipment including tractors, combine harvesters, plows, seeders and balers.

Thanks to the licensing of machinery from leading manufacturers including DEUTZ-FAHR, KRONE, HORSCH, PÖTTINGER and VOGEL & NOOT you are able to take control of authentic farming equipment.

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According to Farm Aid, 5 million family farms have been lost since the 1930’s. Most farms today are not family farms, and their future is very much in jeopardy. This story is a personal account of one new family farmer on his journey to establishing a farming business.

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Farm equipment mechanics service, maintain, and repair farm equipment, as well as smaller lawn and garden tractors sold to suburban homeowners. What once was a general repairers job around the farm has evolved into a specialized technical career. Farmers have increasingly turned to farm equipment dealers to service and repair their equipment because the machinery has grown in complexity. The hours of work for farm equipment mechanics vary according to the season of the year.

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Sustainable farming and sustainability seem like lofty, out of reach goals. Julie Jensen, owner of Echoview Farm in Asheville, NC, describes small steps people can take to help support sustainable farming and sustainability. Actions such as buying unprocessed foods and growing your own garden, even if it as small as herbs on a windowsill, make a a measurable difference in the effort to sustain and nourish the land.

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Everdale’s Organic Farming Certificate program’s curriculum includes 906 hours of farm work experience on Everdale farm. OFC student farmers develop farming skills growing food in the fields and selling it at farmers markets.

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