If you like farms with pigs, cows, fish, farting farmers, aliens and atomic bombs that launch out of grain silos, you're gonna love this new site for Butternuts Beer & Ale from Woods Witt Dealy & Sons. We're just blaming the problem on a mysterious, impossible-to-find bug we've stopped bothering to attempt to fix. Along with the website, the campaign also includes print ads, table tents, packaging, posters and a MySpace page, all of which can be seen here. If a microbrewer has to set...

A couch potato is defined by the OED as "a person who spends leisure time passively or idly sitting around, especially watching television or video tapes. They're afraid that the image of a slovenly fat guy slouching on his sofa, watching Baywatch reruns is going to have a negative impact on the image of a potato as a healthy food item. British potato farmers are concerned that the term "couch potato" is doing irreparable harm to their terrific tuber. Sure, Atkins diet proponents say that...

The project is to test the practicality of closed-containment salmon aquaculture, which pumps water in and out to segregate farmed fish and their parasites from the open ocean. s first closed-containment salmon farm is going ahead at Middle Point near Campbell River, using a bag system for small fish and moving to solid-wall containers floating in the ocean as they grow. Closed containment was recommended this spring by a legislative committee studying the issue as the standard for new B....

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More and more ranchers and farmers are becoming convinced that it may be more to their advantage to help the threatened burrowing rodents rather than exterminating them. Some are joining a project - run by a consortium of state and federal agencies - that offers the rodents sanctuary among the open spaces of landowners' fields and pastures. Their goal is to discuss with private landowners a program devised to save the species and to keep regulators off the backs of farmers and ranchers....