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  2. Sod - Wikipedia

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    Sod is grown on specialist farms. For 2009, the United States Department of Agriculture reported 1,412 farms had 368,188 acres (149,000.4 ha) of sod in production. [9]It is usually grown locally (within 100 miles of the target market) [10] to minimize both the cost of transport and also the risk of damage to the product.

  3. Scotts Miracle-Gro Company - Wikipedia

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    Scotts was founded in 1868 by Orlando M. Scott as a premium seed company for the U.S. agricultural industry. In the early 1900s, the company began a lawn grass seed business for homeowners, and in 1924, became the first company to ship grass seed products directly to stores. Prior to 1924, Scotts products were only available through the mail. [5]

  4. Frontier Agriculture - Wikipedia

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    Frontier Agriculture Ltd is the UK's largest crop production and grain marketing business, jointly owned by Associated British Foods and Cargill plc. Frontier has a market share of 20% of the grain market , trades around 5,000,000 tonnes (5,500,000 tons) of grain per year, and has an annual turnover in excess of £1.5 billion.

  5. Agriculture in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    This was the best performance in UK agriculture since the 1990s. Agriculture employed 476,000 people, representing 1.5% of the workforce, down more than 32% since 1996. In terms of gross value added in 2009, 83% of the UK's agricultural income originated from England, 9% from Scotland, 4% from Northern Ireland and 3% from Wales. [3] [75] [76 ...

  6. Agriculture in England - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture boomed as grain prices increased sixfold by 1650. Improvements in transport, particularly along rivers and coasts, brought beef and dairy products from the north of England to London. Jethro Tull invented his famous rotating-cylinder seed drill.

  7. Category:Agriculture in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Agricultural machinery manufacturers of the United Kingdom (1 C, 17 P) Agricultural shows in the United Kingdom (4 C, 3 P) Animal husbandry in the United Kingdom (8 C, 2 P)

  8. Residents full of questions for Home Depot - AOL

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    Nov. 4—Moscow residents pressed Home Depot officials on matters like traffic, jobs and water use during a community meeting Friday in Moscow. In August, the Idaho State Board of Education ...

  9. Garden Organic - Wikipedia

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    Garden Organic, formerly known as the Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA), is a UK organic growing charity dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food. The charity maintains the Heritage Seed Library to preserve vegetable seeds from heritage cultivars and make them available to growers.