Professional Farm Manager of the Year announced. (FYI News & Notes).Jim and Mary Rickert of Western Agricultural Services, Fall River Mills, Calif., were selected as the 2002 Professional Farm Manager of the Year. The award is sponsored by the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers and Syngenta Crop Protection, Greensboro, N.C. The couple manages agricultural enterprises on 16 farm and ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada. operations, ranging from natural and organic beef The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Roots to hay and wild rice products. Within the past 20 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time Rickerts pioneered the introduction of wild rice in northeast California. They were also honored for their natural resource management, including managing 1,000 acres for timber production, operating a state-regulated hunting club and building a hydroelectric power hydroelectric power: see power, electric; water power. hydroelectric power Electricity produced from generators driven by water turbines that convert the energy in falling or fast-flowing water to mechanical energy. plant. |
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