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April 30, 2026

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Chris Judd is a farmer in Clarendon on land that has been in his family for generations.

Chris Judd, The Equity

Cause before cure

The most expensive lessons are never forgotten. Ask an old farmer. Did you ever look out the plane window at those pretty stone fences in the Irish fields just before the plane landed? The farmers that cleared the fields didn’t build those crooked stone fences so you could have a nice view from the aeroplane. Farmers spent years picking stones so the plow, cultivator, and other equipment would not get broken hitting stones that were invisible just below the surface. 

Read the signs

Have you ever paid a speeding ticket? There are the regular maximum speed signs on most roads, but then there

The rule of threes

A couple decades ago, I had a life altering experience. One Friday morning in late November I had a stroke

The rest of the story

When I was in college many, many years ago, Sometimes cows get sick too. Fifty years ago, our veterinarian told

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