Hacker News with Generative AI: Farming

I plan to farm my land with no tractor this year (houseofgreen.substack.com)
I would be seriously oblivious at this point if I did not notice the hundreds and hundreds of comments left on my social media calling me a ‘play-pretend’ farmer because I am attempting to farm with no prior experience, no tractor, and no fancy tilling equipment.

Farming, Sustainable Agriculture, Lifestyle, Social Media

7 points by mooreds 8 days ago | 1 comments

The great German land lottery (npr.org)
Every ten years, a group of German farmers gather in the communal farm fields of the Osing for the Osingverlosung, a land lottery dating back centuries.

Germany, Culture, Tradition, Farming

13 points by JumpCrisscross 39 days ago | 0 comments

Most American farmers have second jobs to stay afloat (marketplace.org)
On the Leelanau Peninsula, known as Michigan’s pinky, the rolling hills and insulating lake effect make it possible to grow fruit. Cherry farmer Phil Hallstedt said he never tires of looking at the landscape, but growing cherries here is not the stable business it once was.

Agriculture, Economics, Michigan, Farming

78 points by ilamont 51 days ago | 103 comments

The cost of senior care: Why aging farmers fear the nursing home (text.npr.org)

Aging, Healthcare, Farming, Economics

8 points by everybodyknows 137 days ago | 1 comments

Dispatches from the farm upstate (lcamtuf.substack.com)

Farming, Substack

129 points by walterbell 167 days ago | 51 comments

Disillusioned with big city life, college graduates in China take up farming (latimes.com)

Farming, China, Demographics, Social Trends, Rural Life

5 points by PaulHoule 192 days ago | 2 comments

Denmark to charge $100 per cow in first carbon tax on farming (cnn.com)

Denmark, Carbon Tax, Climate Change, Agriculture, Farming

59 points by voisin 206 days ago | 208 comments

SpaceX staff in Saskatchewan to collect debris found on farmer's field (westerninvestor.com)