Tag: farmer

Australian Pacific Farm Workers Ready to Fill Gaps

Around 40,000 workers from the Pacific Islands are vetted and ready to migrate to Australia to help address farm labour shortages, Australia’s Agriculture Minister Murray Watt says. After two days of discussions on jobs and skills in Canberra last week, 36 “concrete plans” to tackle Australia’s economic challenges were established. They included a lift to the…


Economy Expert Explains the Impending ‘Polycrisis of Doom’

The food crisis, pandemic outbreaks, stagflation, a Eurozone sovereign debt crisis and potential nuclear war. This historian warns of the ‘perfect storm’ ahead, yet there are two things you can do to thrive despite it all – and they go beyond stockpiling food, water and guns. STORY AT-A-GLANCE Adam Tooze, a financial crisis historian and…


Farmer Installs Two 22-Foot Tornado Fighter Jet Fuel Tanks Outside His House to Help Confused Postmen

A wacky farmer has installed two 22-foot Tornado fighter jet fuel tanks outside his home—to help confused postmen find his property. Matt Thompson, 40, became fed up after regularly missing letters and parcels which were mistakenly delivered to seven neighboring houses with the same postcode in Ulceby, Lincolnshire. Matt Thompson with the bomber jet tanks….


Aesop’s Fables: The Farmer and the Stork

A stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted. But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the meshes of the farmer’s net. The stork begged the farmer to spare him. “Please let me…


Farmers Paying Triple for Fertilizer: We’re Not the Ones Raising Food Costs

Beep, beep, beep. It’s the familiar sound of food scanned and placed into bags at your local grocery store. You just went in for a few things and meant to keep it under $100. But you walk away with a new case of sticker shock and fewer bags than $100 used to buy. Inflation has…


4 Young Friends Spent Their Life Savings to Buy a Farm and Live Their Dream

They now supply hundreds of families in the community with fresh, organic vegetables and fruits.


Lunar New Year Flowers in Flames as Hong Kong Farmer Burns Unsold Stock

HONG KONG—Flower farmer Leung Yat-shen has burned thousands of flowers he cannot sell this year as Hong Kong’s stringent measures against the Omicron variant of coronavirus have halved his Lunar New Year demand. Leung, 70, runs a traditional farm in Hong Kong’s rural Yuen Long district growing sword lilies, water lilies, and tulips. He had…


Walnuts for Holiday Baking Languish as US Shipping Crisis Hurts Farmers

ESCALON, CALIF.—The shrink-wrapped boxes of fresh California walnuts stacked almost to the ceiling in Don Barton’s California packing facility should be headed to Europe for holiday baking and to Asia for New Year celebrations. Instead, newly cleaned and shelled nuts—about $10 million worth—are stuck at his processing plant near Sacramento, thousands of miles from their…


100 Volunteers Harvest 1,000 Acres of Land for Grieving Family After Farmer’s Tragic Death

Over 100 members of a tight-knit Iowa farming community came together after losing one of their own to harvest the crops he left behind. Cole Vanatta, who managed over 2,000 acres of row crops just south of Tabor, Iowa—with his father and grandfather—sustained a farming injury on Sept. 9 and died two days later. He…


Farmer Stands for National Anthem at High School Football Game, Leaves Crowd Stunned

It was a picture-perfect moment—as golden as a Norman Rockwell painting. Before a high school football game in Virginia, the national anthem was about to play. In a neighboring field, a lone farmer stands patriotically, respectfully, hand over heart. Local mom Monica Osborne captured the magical scene on camera late August, as her son readied for…