Our nation’s turtle farming industry recently received some rather unwanted attention, courtesy of Operation Shellshock. The multistate investigation uncovered a clandestine network of reptile smugglers, whose dastardly deeds included the peddling of rare turtles to both collectors and Chinese diners. The scheme was allegedly abetted with “the help of a corrupt Louisiana turtle farm,” which […]
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A daring grain theft in a town with a population of 51. I wonder how the robbers planned to fence the stuff—not like you can walk into just any old pawn shop with 168,000 pounds of sorghum. Indispensible tips on stopping grain thieves here. Illuminate your bins!
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Want more blissed-out dairy cows? Put ’em on treadmills for 90 minutes a day. Even for domesticated bovines, fitness is evidently next to godliness.
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The dreaded Africanized honey bee has finally made its way to southern Utah, specifically the two counties that border Arizona. About time, considering that Utah agricultural authorities have been expecting to find such bees since 1999, when the “killers” first showed up in neighboring Nevada. So it took the bees a full decade to cross […]
