Agriculture

Farming and related issues

County needs to back off local food charter think-local-food-72dpi

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County needs to back off local food charter

Robert October 16, 2013

By Robert Washburn If every household in Northumberland County spent just $10 per week on locally produced...

Farmers’s request ignored by county council agriculture

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Farmers’s request ignored by county council

Robert February 19, 2013

By Robert Washburn Northumberland County farmers got a slap in the face this week as Northumberland County...

Farmers brace for hard times, while consumers face skyrocketing prices crops_wheat

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Farmers brace for hard times, while consumers face skyrocketing prices

Robert September 16, 2012

By Robert Washburn The drought in the United States, one of the worst in 50 years, casts...