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To save fuel, a farm looks back

By Nick Grabbe
Staff Writer

Published on August 29, 2008

THOMAS BOLLIER

Berta Wermer, a University of Massachusetts student who works at Simple Gifts Farm in North Amherst, walks two young male Jersey cattle, Red and Blue, around a pasture. Wermer is training the 5-month-old cows to become oxen to work on the farm, in part to reduce the need for fuels.

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