Food Stamps Double Their Value at Michigan Farmers Markets
"Double Up Food Bucks" let families on food stamps take home twice the fresh produce, while small family farmers make more money.
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Water-Cleaning Technology to Help Farmers
The giant solar receiver installed on a wheat field here in California's agricultural heartland slowly rotates to track the sun and capture its energy. The 377-foot array, however, does not generate electricity but instead creates heat used to desalinate water. It is part of a project developed by a San Francisco area start-up called WaterFX that is tapping an abundant, if contaminated, resource in this parched region: the billions of gallons of water that lie just below the surface.
Giant Snowman Brings Joy to Minnesota's Nasty Winter
A Minnesota farmer thought as long as he was moving 4 feet of snow using heavy machinery, he might as well have some fun with it. Greg Novak used all that snow to build a 50-foot snowman that was so large it needed an full-sized oil drum for a nose. He named the giant figure 'Granddaddy', and positioned it to face the highway running alongside his farm in Gilman.
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