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THE inaugural Cumbria Farmer Awards will be judged by a panel of respected experts from a wide spectrum of backgrounds. Headed by Andrew Robinson, partner and head of agriculture and farming at Carlisle-based business advisers and accountants Armstrong Watson, our headline sponsors, who are also sponsoring a further category, the Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the drinks reception. Andrew will be partnered in the search to find farming’s unsung heroes, by Alistair Mackintosh, west Cumbrian beef and sheep farmer and chairman of Red Tractor Assurance, as well as the National Far...

ALBANY — Sedrick Rowe broke ground this year in a billion-dollar industry: hemp. He became one of the first black, south Georgia farmers licensed to grow the crop in the Peach State. And his history-making harvest succeeded during the global pandemic, too. Recently, his success story has piqued the interest of new producers wanting to enter the hemp force. So he decided to teach — initially in his hometown of Albany — the ins and outs to starting and sustaining a hemp operation. Rowe is offering a one-day crash course, “How to grow hemp in South Georgia.” The social d...

breaking class ceilings at work. for now, i'll just say the key is the boss' wife. we begin with the government trying to figure out why three planes at washington's reagan airport came close to crashing right into each other in mid-air. the incident occurred tuesday when air traffic controllers were making adjustments for landinand departing aircraft because of bad weather. athena jones at reagan national for us. so, how close of a call was this? >> good morning, kyra. it was a pretty close call. we're talking about seconds here. one of the airplane as was about half as far away a...