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Going back to the land

Young people moving in to fill agricultural niches

By Sarah Schweitzer
Globe Staff / May 7, 2005

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BURLINGTON, Vt. -- There were no glitzy PowerPoint presentations, no assurances of high-tech riches. But they came by the dozens to a student center, young women with cat-eye glasses and young men sporting sideburns, to learn how to finance a John Deere tractor and market a crop. (Full article: 1082 words)

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