Guests feed livestock, ride tractors and pick fruit A night on the farm Farm folk willingly share the peace and quiet of the countryside with visitors The Virginia Tourism Corp promotes farm stays in the Shenandoah Valley at Lavender Hill Farm, a 20-acre farm bed-and-breakfast five miles from Lexington Twenty-five farms are listed on the Pennsylvania Farm Vacation Association Web site, Maine farm communities offer travelers fresh pickings

The breakfast was sponsored by Southwest Georgia Farm Credit Brookins, talking about home loans and mortgages, pointed out that Georgia residents are entitled to two free credit reports a year We have part-time farmer loans and in-house loans with Farm Credit also

Darunee Edwards The trends indicate that increasing numbers of farmers are choosing to grow biotech crops The government has a comprehensive ban on farmers employing any agro-biotechnologies in any of their crop varieties Is Thailand's food self-sufficiency using exclusively conventional crops guaranteed forever? Crops with higher yields are needed In Asia, countries such as China, the Philippines, India and Indonesia allow their farmers to apply plant biotechnologies in growing increasingly greater varieties of crops

The decline in firefighters with farming backgrounds has followed the decline in farms Indiana had 105,0 farms in 1977 Johnson County had 526 farms and 135,563 acres; Hamilton County had 591 farms and 140,813 acres Fire Chief David Sutherlin of Buck Creek Township in Hancock County also has few firefighters with farm backgrounds More than 7,0 farm accidents -- with injuries requiring medical treatment -- occurred last year on Indiana's 62,0 farms, according to Purdue University Professor Bill Field, a farm accident expert