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Noel Moore, who has been farming in Killen, just outside Castlederg, for 50 years said he has seen a lot of surprising things in that time.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2026

Thornton’s family has been farming in the same valley 20 minutes south of the Canadian border for nearly a century, and their yearly Honeycrisp crop is a painstaking ordeal.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 15, 2025

Hutchison, whose family has been farming in Cordova for generations, acknowledges that farmers are easy targets in trade spats.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

Kendall Brown, 38, grew up in Oklahoma and has been farming or around farms her entire life.

From Salon • Apr. 1, 2025

Another Englishman, who has been farming in Norway for several years, and who employs about forty labourers, has been obliged to procure Swedes, on account of the peculations of native hands.

From Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland by Taylor, Bayard