Innovations continue after decades of farming
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March 25, 2016

Innovations continue after decades of farming

Robert Ramming grew up on a small farm and says he got the farming bug in 1968 after subscribing to an organic gardening magazine. “We moved to Yolo County in 1980,” he said. “We bought farmland in 1984, and started farming in

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