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Renewable on-farm energy focus of SARE bulletin

Clean Energy Farming from the USDA’s SARE program is the latest in a series on its most creative research projects. It focuses on increasing profits by implementing energy efficient farming practices and producing using renewable energy. (SARE is the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program.)
 
A featured farmer is Roger Rainville who says, “The concept of being self-sufficient is pretty exciting." He is a Vermont Dairy producer who has been working for four years to achieve energy independence on his northern Vermont farm by growing canola. Full story: SARE

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