#farmers — Public Fediverse posts
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Why growing heirloom seeds is best in South Carolina https://www.allforgardening.com/1933145/why-growing-heirloom-seeds-is-best-in-south-carolina/ #Columbia #FarmToTable #Farmers #fruits #gardening #GardeningSouthCarolina #heirloom #library #local #produce #SouthCarolina #vegetables
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Amid Low Rainfall and Scorching Heat, Bosnians Face Dire Water Shortages
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They put food on our tables, but 9 out of 10 farmers feel undervalued
By Lauren Bohane and Emily MiddletonA national survey finds many farmers are considering leaving the industry, while one in three feel their mental health has deteriorated over the last year.
#MentalHealth #Farmers #Agriculture #LivestockFarming #DairyFarming #MentalWellbeing #LaurenBohane #EmilyMiddleton
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Wellbeing report finds nine out of 10 farmers feel undervalued
By Lauren Bohane and Emily MiddletonA national survey finds many farmers are considering leaving the industry, while one on three felt their mental health had deteriorated over the last year.
#MentalHealth #Farmers #Agriculture #LivestockFarming #DairyFarming #MentalWellbeing #LaurenBohane #EmilyMiddleton
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Farmers say backpacker visa pause will risk Australia's food security
By Justine Longmore, Warwick Long, Selina Green, and Sam ParryRural communities and farmers are concerned they will lose an essential workforce as the brakes are put on working holiday visa applications.
#MigrationPolicy #Farmers #AgriculturalWorkers #JustineLongmore #WarwickLong #SelinaGreen #SamParry
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“European #farmers face ‘unprecedented crisis’ after successive #heatwaves
Vegetable and grain growers call for urgent action, warning of ‘catastrophic’ harvests due to continent-wide #drought”
#climatecrisis #farming #foodsecurity
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Behind every gallon of fresh milk is hard work, dedication, and a team committed to caring for the herd. 🐄🥛 From the milking parlor to the farm floor, every detail matters.
#DairyFarm #DairyFarming #FarmLife #FarmerLife #MilkProduction #CattleFarming #Agriculture #WorkingFarm #Farmers #RuralLife #Mastodon
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Tassie growers spitting chips over Simplot spud contract
By Laurissa SmithIt's crunch time for Tasmanian potato growers in a contract dispute with US French fry giant, Simplot.
#Farmers #AgriculturalPrices #AgriculturalCrops #VegetableGrowing #FoodandBeverageProcessingIndustry #LaurissaSmith
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Cartoonjournaal 19 aigustus 2026:
'Farmers Defence Force: verband tussen ongeluk en boerenprotest 'niet fair'...'
#boerenprotest #tractor #file #klimaatactivisten #stikstof #IntensieveLandbouw #veeteelt #A59 #snelweg #ongeluk #verkeersslachtoffer #farmers #cattle #agriculture #ExtinctionRebellion #protests #cartoonjournaal
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Coalition vows to scrap VNI West transmission project in Victoria
By Justine Longmore and Warwick LongThe Victorian Liberal and National parties will scrap the controversial VNI West transmission project if the Coalition wins the state election in November.
#StateandTerritoryElections #RuralandRemoteCommunities #Farmers #EnergyIndustry #JustineLongmore #WarwickLong
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The Perkins Institute for Global Studies @theperkinsinstitute.wordpress.com@theperkinsinstitute.wordpress.com ·Jeremy Clarkson: The Gearhead turned farmer
The Man who that neither the culture vultures nor cancer could kill, the man who captivated generations of people!
When we think of great men and women, we tend to think of prophets, kings, statesmen, warriors, and the mythological figures who gave civilizations a language for understanding their world—and the courage to conquer it. Rarely, however, do we place pop-culture icons in that same category. They are often dismissed as temporary celebrities: products of their moment, destined to be reduced to nostalgia once their era has passed.
But every so often, an exception emerges that challenges the rule and gives rise to a generation voice.
On July 27, 1988, pop culture created one of those exceptions. Though like the rule itself, this moment was almost reduced to one failed season not fit for nostalgia.
What appeared at first to be another character, another story, another piece of entertainment became something far more enduring: a generational icon whose archetypal message survived the cultural shifts that sought to redefine, dismantle, and ultimately forget the ideals he represented.
Raising the question of whether we should mistake pop culture icon’s or heroes as mere entertainment for that moment when civilization need them most.
Jeremy Clarkson didn’t simply host a car show—he helped transform the way the world thought about cars. When Top Gear first appeared on April 22, 1977, its purpose was relatively straightforward: showcase automobiles and reflect Britain’s automotive industry. Decades later, Clarkson would help turn that modest concept into a global pop-culture phenomenon, transforming Top Gear from an automotive program into entertainment, comedy, travel, competition, and personality-driven television.
But no revolution happens alone.
Richard Hammond and James May were essential to the formula. Their contrasting personalities, competing perspectives, and unmistakable chemistry transformed three presenters into something far greater: a trio that became synonymous with an era of television and almost as iconic as the cars they drove.
They reinvented the car show—and proved that sometimes the greatest television isn’t about the subject at all. It’s about the people who make you care about it. And that they did because we all had tears in our eyes when they signed off The Grand Tour for the last time in Africa.
When The Grand Tour aired its final episode in 2024, it wasn’t simply the end of a television show—it felt like the closing chapter of a relationship millions of us had grown up with. For nearly three decades, Clarkson, Hammond, and May took us across the world, through impossible roads, remote landscapes, ridiculous challenges, and some of the greatest cars ever built. When it finally ended, the questions were inevitable: Would we ever see the three of them together again? What comes next? And can the automotive world ever feel quite the same without them?
For an entire generation, these three weren’t just presenters. They were the friends who introduced us to cars. They made us care about machines we could never afford, dream about roads we’d never drive, and, for many of us, buy the project car that would sit unfinished in the driveway for the next decade. Their adventures turned an interest in automobiles into something much bigger—a shared passion, a culture, and a community.
And when the journey ended, millions of us were left asking the same question:
What do you do when the people who taught you to love something finally say goodbye?
For Jeremy Clarkson, the voice that had transformed automotive television wasn’t finished—it had simply found a new field to conquer. Literally. When Clarkson’s Farm premiered in 2021, the premise seemed almost absurd: take one of Britain’s most famous car presenters, give him a farm, and somehow turn agriculture into television. Even the producers seemed skeptical that Clarkson would survive the experience. Yet what began as a potential disaster quickly became one of Amazon’s most unexpected successes.
The question was whether fans who had followed Clarkson from Top Gear to The Grand Tour would care about farming. The answer came quickly: absolutely. The show proved that Clarkson’s appeal was never really about cars—it was about his personality, his curiosity, his spectacular ability to turn ordinary problems into extraordinary disasters, and the people around him. Add a cast of unforgettable farmhands, particularly Kaleb Cooper, and suddenly tractors, crops, bureaucracy, weather, and livestock became every bit as entertaining as supercars and exotic road trips.
What made Clarkson’s Farm remarkable wasn’t simply that Jeremy Clarkson made farming entertaining—it was that he turned a traditionally overlooked industry into a national conversation. What began as television quickly became a platform for farmers and rural communities facing rising costs, regulation, economic uncertainty, and an increasingly complicated relationship with government. Clarkson brought those struggles into living rooms that might otherwise never have considered them, showing audiences just how difficult—and expensive—it can be to produce the food we take for granted. When he took farmers to London to protest policies affecting their livelihoods, he wasn’t simply creating another television moment; he was giving visibility to people who often felt invisible. Whatever one’s politics, the cultural impact was difficult to ignore: Clarkson helped millions of viewers understand that farming isn’t merely an occupation—it is the foundation of food security, rural communities, and a degree of independence that modern society can easily take for granted.
He didn’t just make farming entertaining. He made people pay attention.
Just as Clarkson seemed to be entering another successful chapter, audiences were reminded that even the larger-than-life figures who have entertained us for decades are still human. Near the end of Clarkson’s Farm Season Five, Clarkson revealed that he had been diagnosed with cancer and would require surgery and treatment. Thankfully, it was reportedly caught early, giving him a much stronger chance of recovery. For fans who had followed him from Top Gear to The Grand Tour and now into the fields of Diddly Squat, the news carried a different weight: the man who had spent decades making us laugh suddenly gave us a reason to worry.
If you haven’t watched Clarkson’s Farm, you’re missing far more than another Clarkson comedy. It delivers the same irreverent entertainment that made Top Gear and The Grand Tour cultural phenomena, but it also pulls back the curtain on an industry most of us rarely see. From farm-to-table production and spiraling costs to livestock, crops, and the realities of running a brewery, the series turns agriculture into something surprisingly personal and accessible.
As it turns out, Clarkson didn’t leave the world of entertainment behind when he left the driver’s seat. He simply discovered that the next great adventure was waiting in a field.
Jeremy we are praying for you!
#agriculturalindustry #agriculture #agricultureindustry #automotive #automotiveindustry #books #clarksonSfarm #clarksonsfarm #didlysquatfarm #englishparliament #farm #farmer #farmers #farming #history #jamesmay #jeremyClarkson #jeremyclarkson #london #parliament #richardhammond #thegrandtour #topgear #topgearuk #travel #writing -
Wet spring fuels costly disease battle for Canadia…
Canadian farmers growing durum, spring wheat, canola and pulse crops have spent the growing season battling an unusually aggressive wave of crop diseases triggered by the wettest year the country has seen this decade. Jake Leguee, who farms roughly 19,000 acre…
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Queensland graziers pushed to the brink as feed runs dry
By Bella Munro and Grace NakamuraNearly a month after vast swathes of Queensland were drought declared, pastures are bare, rivers have stopped running, and hay sheds sit empty.
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Labour hire company and four farms face more than $3 million in fines
By Lua Ikenasio and Petra OatesA major labour hire legal case is set to begin in the Victorian Supreme Court and could see those accused face fines totalling more than $3 million.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-18/farmers-face-landmark-labour-hire-court-case/107045240
#Courts #Farmers #HorticultureIndustry #AgriculturalWorkers #LuaIkenasio #PetraOates
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And here’s a nice round up of what farmers can currently get in the way of electric equipment. Most of it’s smallish & the author notes: “The electric future will make its way to Australian farms, but anyone expecting a diesel-free paddock by the end of the decade is probably in for a rude shock. The ag sector still sits well behind passenger cars, trucks and even construction equipment when it comes to electrification – and for good reason.
Australian farms are enormous, the climate is often brutally hot and dry, and operations run long hours, often through the night. It’s not uncommon to put a tractor to work for 12 hours straight, which is why battery technology has struggled to crack the local ag sector. So far, it’s largely limited to electric UTVs [Utility Task Vehicles], with no proper electric tractors available here… yet.”
#AustralianFarmers #Farmers #Australia #tractors #electricTractors #UtilityTaskVehicles #batteryTechnology
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@mike805
Well Mike, Raymond, you’ll never guess what? John Deere has a proper electric tractor planned for 2026. 😀https://www.afgri.com.au/news/post/deere-first-electric-tractor-2026-launch
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Stirling Fruit & Vegetable Co. : Finding the Silver Lining in Today’s Farm Economy https://www.allforgardening.com/1932277/stirling-fruit-vegetable-co-finding-the-silver-lining-in-todays-farm-economy/ #agriculture #business #community #culture #Farmers #farming #foodie #GardeningUtah #utah
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Victorian farmers welcome rain ahead of expected dry summer
By Petra OatesGrowers across Victoria welcome recent widespread rain, but it has not been without its problems.
#AgriculturalandFarmingPractice #Farmers #WeatherForecasts #PetraOates
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Nutrition programs work better when they include #Indigenous food knowledge
Researchers found nutrition programs work better when they include Indigenous food knowledge, local languages, and traditional practices.
By Raquel Brandao, July 24, 2026
Excerpt: "Cameras, cooking and conversation
"Some things worked. #Storytelling, #workshops, and #CookingDemonstrations turned up again and again across the 39 studies, alongside #TalkingCircles, #ShortFilms and #SmartphoneApps.
"The common thread is direction. Each of these methods lets people speak in their own words rather than sit and receive instruction.
"In #NewZealand ( #Aotearoa ), researchers built a mobile health app together with #Māori and #Pasifika partners. The language, the stories, and the pictures all came from the communities the app was meant for.
"Speaking with Earth.com, Rao described a project she led. 'In my own work, and one of the papers reviewed, I have used cameras and #DigitalTools with young women and men in an Indigenous community in #India to document their traditional food knowledges by speaking to the elders, visiting the forests and local markets, talking to women engaged in #foraging and #FoodPreparation.'
"That project is one of the 39 studies in the review. An earlier paper followed ten Santhal young people in eastern India who were trained to make films.
"They made nearly 50 films and screened them in their own villages. Older relatives supplied much of what went into them.
Elders as teachers
"Who holds the knowledge matters as much as what the knowledge is. #Elders, #healers, #farmers, and #women each carry different parts of it.
"None of it arrives as a curriculum. It moves between generations through cooking, gathering and long conversation, which is exactly what a nutrition leaflet cannot carry.
" 'Reclaiming and recognising #IndigenousKnowledge , values and practices to address the different elements of nutrition and health involves recognising intergenerational and wider social relations, and engaging everyone from the elders, healers, educators and farmers to service providers, policymakers and academics, to together raise issues and find solutions,' said Rao.
"Traditional foods carry knowledge of the local landscape in a way nothing else does. The review treats them as practical resources rather than heritage."
#SolarPunkSunday #Technology #IndigenousCommunities #TraditionalKnowledge #TraditionalDiets #FoodForests #Foraging #SharingKnowledge #PreservingCulture #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #FoodKnowledge #TraditionalFoods
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The only effect of #farmers #protests (both here in UK and across North Sea in NL) is that I now view any #tractor on #A12 and #A14 highway with suspicion, even when its very likely they are doing legitimate agricultural work.
Previous to the protests I just though of them as normal vehicles to see on the roads in a semi rural area..
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I did not mention agriculture in my search prompt? #eu #subsidies #farmers
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Flock of Goats Hits the Slopes of Vermont Ski Resort as Eco-Friendly Landscaping Option – WATCH https://www.allforgardening.com/1930647/flock-of-goats-hits-the-slopes-of-vermont-ski-resort-as-eco-friendly-landscaping-option-watch/ #animals #business #cute #EcoFriendly #environment #Farmers #GardeningVermont #GoodIdeas #Land #skiing #vermont
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West Virginia puts healthy eating program on hold https://www.allforgardening.com/1927724/west-virginia-puts-healthy-eating-program-on-hold/ #DiseasePrevention #Farmers #FarmersMarkets #food #gardening #GardeningWestVirginia #groceries #GroceryStores #HealthyEating #nutrition #PublicHealth #WestVirginia