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July
2004
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A
fruit grower, who owns the orchard on the left, expressed concerns
to the Michigan Department of Agriculture about the former orchard
on the right.
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read the story
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Abandoned
Orchards
Living
in a rural community is the simple life. It means breathing fresh
air, being surrounded by acres of beautiful woodland or prairies,
roaming wildlife that eat right from your hand and silence only
broken by the occasional pick-up truck that drives by - the driver
waving of course.
Farm
Marketer Has No Limits
If you can’t
find it at Bauman Farms, it probably doesn’t grow in western
Oregon. That’s stretching it a bit but not far off base
when you consider that Rick and Barbara Bauman’s country
store offers almost every fruit and vegetable grown in the Willamette
Valley.
Fruit
Crop Numbers Expected to be Down
Many areas of the country are anticipating lower-than-normal crop
production this year, with much of the blame placed on poor bloom
and bad weather. These numbers were reported at the 49th Annual
Fruit Crop Guesstimate.
Marketplace
of Ideas
The Fruit Growers
News received this response from a reader to our June question of
the month: “Have you added anything new to your farm this
season?"
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