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Archaeobotanists have traced the selection and cultivation of specific food plant characteristics, such as a semi-tough rachis and larger seeds, to just after the Younger Dryas (about 9,500 BC) in the early Holocene in the Levant region of the Fertile Crescent. Limited anthropological and archaeological evidence both indicate a grain-grinding culture farming along the Nile in the 10th millennium BC using the world's earliest known type of sickle blades.
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James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. (39th President of the United States): Upon the death of his father in 1953, however, Carter resigned from the Navy, and established a peanut farming business in Plains, Georgia, where he was involved in a farming accident which left him with a permanently bent finger.
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Cold Comfort Farm (1995): directed by John Schlesinger and starring Kate Beckinsale and Eileen Atkins. Plot Summary: In England in the early 1930's, 20 year old Flora Poste, recently orphaned and left with only 100 pounds a year, goes to stay with distant relatives on Cold Comfort Farm. Everyone on the gloomy farm is completely around the twist, but Flora tries to sort everything out ...
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Until 1915 the Victoria River Downs Station in Northern Territory, Australia had an area of 56,000 square kilometres. This is approximately the size of Croatia.
Stump-Jump Plough: in the 19th century, most of the newly opened farming land in South Australia was full of tree stumps and rocks and so normal ploughs were of little use. In 1876 brothers Richard and Clarence Smith invented a plough whose blade would rise on striking an obstacle and fall down back into the soil with the help of a hinged beam or draft chain.
Source: South Australian history
The Farm by Aerosmith
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Farm Pot Roast
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Mad Cow Disease is an ofA sad cow demise
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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper Picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
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Farmer Giles of Ham (written in 1947, published in 1949) is a short story written by J. R. R. Tolkien. The story describes a series of encounters between Farmer Giles and a wily dragon named Chrysophylax. It is set in a fantasy Britain of long ago, which has mythical creatures, medieval knights, and primitive firearms.
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age. (Bill Bryson)
It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work. (Cato The Elder)
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization. (Daniel Webster)
The farmer works the soil. The agriculturalist works the farmer. (Eugene F. Ware)
No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer. (H. L. Mencken)
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Schoolmaster, stick to your books; farmer, to your pigs. (Chinese)
The corn is not choked by the weeds but by the negligence of the farmer. (Chinese)
When the cat and the mouse agree the farmer doesn't stand a chance. (Danish)
Manure is the farmer's gold. (Estonian)
What the farmer does not know he doesn't eat. German ( - )
Two farmers each claimed to own a certain cow. While one pulled on its head and the other pulled on its tail, the cow was milked by the lawyer. (Hebrew)
The farmer grows the corn, but the bear eats it. (Nepalese)
A warrior dies in battle; a mountain climber on the rocks, but a farmer dies of old age. (New Zealander)
If the farmer is poor then so is the whole country. (Polish)
The farmer is a born philosopher, the aristocrat has to learn how. (Polish)
Source: Creative Proverbs
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