Tag: FARMING

A lot of people go to Facebook to harvest fake crops on fictitious farms. If you're interested in real farming, however, you're probably better off heading to Twitter, where both farmers and Wall Streeters alike are exchanging valuable, first-hand information about farming conditions across the globe. As Forbes reports, some farmers originally began using the social network as a way to advance ...

As far as agriculture goes, FarmVille's pretty environmentally friendly. After all, everything "grown" on a computer screen is about as local as it gets. And the only thing a user could possibly waste, besides money, is an entire social life. Soon, however, the game's agrarian community will have a whole new way to raise pretend plants... and hemorrhage even more cash. As the New York Times ...

Gardening is usually backbreaking work. Planting, weeding and harvesting require physical exertion and near constant squatting or bending over. Thanks to the strangely named Wunda Products, there may be hope for the chronically lazy who also dream of having their own homegrown produce. The Wunda Weeder consists of a simple metal frame with a platform for a face-down, reclining person, a headrest ...

Oddly enough, cow manure could be a possible solution for technology companies looking for cheaper real estate and electricity. According to The New York Times, a paper written by Hewlett-Packard engineers proposes that tech companies build facilities near dairy farms and use biogas, which is a type of methane created from cow manure, to power their server farms. HP claims that 10,000 cows could ...

To paraphrase Robert Duvall in 'Apocalypse Now,' there's nothing like the smell of manure and live ammunition in the morning. (Or, something like that.) In this case, it was a Saturday morning in Michigan. Casey and Tina Jahn were busy spreading manure and lime across their fields in Huron Township this weekend when an unidentified neighbor stormed out to the fence line with his shotgun in hand, ...