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Why a French farm has turned predominantly to livestock  

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On a recent BASE-UK trip to France, a visit to Christophe Piou’s farm showed how you don’t have to follow the herd to be successful By Mike Abram Surrounded by high value vegetable production and arable farms in the Loire Valley is what is now predominantly a livestock farm. It wasn’t always that way. When …

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No-Till Innovation Come in Leaps and Bounds

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By Brian O’Connor originally published by No-Till Farming Wisconsin no-till dairyman Chris Conley thwarts heavy rain and hills with no-till, covers and planting green. No-tiller Chris Conley took two big steps where other farmers might take one. Conley farms 120 acres for feed (silages, dry hay and high-moisture corn) for his 52-cow dairy, located down …

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