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Farmageddon started life in 1991 as a comic strip called The Funny Farm and was created by Niel Bushnell and Gordon Fraser. Bushnell and Fraser were friends from school and both wanted careers as comic artists. They began to develop an idea for a newspaper comic strip based around a farm.
Funny Farm is a 1988 American comedy film starring Chevy Chase and Madolyn Smith. The film was adapted from a 1985 comedic novel of the same name by Jay Cronley . It was the final film directed by George Roy Hill before his death in 2002.
The Census of Agriculture is a census conducted every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) that provides the only source of uniform, comprehensive agricultural data for every county in the United States.
Happy Hollow is an organic farm, meaning Graznak doesn’t use synthetic chemicals and farms with an eye toward the environment, which ultimately raises her cost of production — costs she has to ...
Farming is one of the few industries in which families (who often share the work and live on the premises) are also at risk for injuries, illness, and death. Agriculture is the most dangerous industry for young workers, accounting for 42% of all work-related fatalities of young workers in the U.S. between 1992 and 2000.
Greenhouse farming in East Lexington. As of 2012, there were 7,755 farms in Massachusetts encompassing a total of 523,517 acres (2,120 km 2), averaging 67.5 acres (27.3 hectares) apiece, [1] but by 2017 this had declined somewhat again, to 7,241 farms in the state. [2]
Jay Cronley (November 9, 1943 – February 26, 2017) was an American newspaper columnist for the Tulsa World and the author of many works of humorous fiction, including Fall Guy, Good Vibes, Quick Change, and Funny Farm. Cronley became a member of the Oklahoma Writers Hall of Fame in 2002.
The goal of the film is to bridge the gap between food growers and food consumers by presenting farmers' and ranchers' perspectives on producing food. [7] The film aims to do this by focusing on the lives of six farmers in their 20s who describe their experiences of and views on modern farming and ranching in the United States.