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Solar Leasing Can Be Cost-Effective for Ag Businesses
If you want to know how much electricity costs, just ask a farmer.
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Everything Under the Sun
An Alabama couple relies on solar energy to power their llama farm near Huntsville.
An Alabama couple relies on solar energy to power their llama farm near Huntsville.
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sunny-side-up
Three South Mississippi poultry farms turn to solar energy to offset more than half of their electricity costs.
If you could invent a perfect building for solar panels, it might be a poultry house.
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The Power of Choice
A Texas couple is using solar energy to heat, cool and light their country home.
A Texas couple is using solar energy to heat, cool and light their country home.
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Catching Some Rays
Increasingly affordable, solar technology helps two rural families embrace efficiency and self-sufficiency.
Larry and Ann Smith’s cattle could talk, they’d tell you how sunny it is at the couple’s North Texas property.
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Brides and billy goats
Family's diversified operation opens new options and revenue streams
Family's diversified operation opens new options and revenue streams
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Inventing All the Time
Inventing is a way of life for farmers Jerrell and Russell Harden in Brundidge, Ala., who have 13 patents between them and more in the works.
Inventing is a way of life for farmers Jerrell and Russell Harden in Brundidge, Ala., who have 13 patents between them and more in the works.
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Move Over, Propane — A New Fuel Rules the Roost
A New Fuel Rules the Roost
A New Fuel Rules the Roost. Using his technical background in the military, Mississippi broiler producer John Logan developed a ...
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Everything Under the Sun - Additional Photos
Photo essay of an Alabama alpaca and llama farm
In 2013, Cozette and Tony O’Neil installed a large solar array that generates income for their farm and enough electricity to power five homes. They raise llamas and alpacas at Cozy Cove Farm, located in Gurley, Ala., just east of Huntsville.
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One Lender, Many Options
When you’re financing a country home, no one is better equipped to help than Farm Credit.
Two years ago, Blake and Amanda Meadows visited their local mortgage company, sure that within days they would be approved for a loan to build a home on their 22-acre raw timber tract in Matthews, Ala. Instead they spent the next eight months jumping through hoops with no loan in sight. The couple switched to a commercial bank, but encountered the same scenario — low appraisals, a lack of understanding of how to value the acreage and future home, and no loan.
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In tune with nature
Careful planning turns a South Texas property into a peaceful haven for people and wildlife
Careful planning turns a South Texas property into a peaceful haven for people and wildlife
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Gates, Gaps and Guards
Bringing Form & Function to the Farm
Learn about an array of gate designs, ranging from fancy to functional, to keep animals in and trespassers out.
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Making an Entrance
Rural Entrances Put Pride and Purpose on Display.
Rural Entrances Put Pride and Purpose on Display.
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Space of His Own
Astronaut Doug Hurley enjoys the best of two different worlds — a ranch in the Texas Hill Country and the thrill of exploring outer space.
Astronaut Doug Hurley enjoys time in the sky, and on his Hill Country retreat.
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Rangeland Restoration
North Texas Landowner Bruce Berg Is Honored for his Rangeland Conservation and Habitat Improvement Efforts
Bruce Berg transformed his juniper-infested ranch into prime pasture and wildlife habitat. Find out how.
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New Beginnings for an Old House
A 102-year-old ranch house gets a modern-day makeover.
A 102-year-old ranch house gets a modern-day makeover.
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Water for Wildlife
Design Your Pond to Attract Your Favorite Critters
The Rogers family shares advice for designing ponds to attract different kinds of wildlife.
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Welcome Home
Farm Credit is helping more and more people to make their home in the country.
Ask five friends to describe their dream home in the country, and you’ll probably get five different descriptions. Unlike city subdivisions with their cookie-cutter designs and building restrictions that encourage conformity, rural communities allow homeowners to define their property through their personal lenses.
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Connecting the Wild Country to the World
A Family-Owned Business Keeps Remote West Texas Communities in Communication.
Life can be lonely in the Big Bend country of far West Texas. The region is among the most rugged and remote areas in the nation.
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What's in the Future for Agriculture?
As we celebrate our centennial and all of the changes that the Farm Credit System and agriculture have seen in the past century, it's hard to imagine what the future will hold.
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Body, mind and soul
Glenn and Lisa Crumpler of Alabama help poor and oppressed people around the world through their nonprofit ministry, Cattle for Christ International Inc.
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Bringing the sunshine
A Southeast Texas medical researcher and budding farmer hopes to spread the joy of flowers and fresh produce
Bringing the sunshine
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