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I can tell you from personal experience that the Homestead Colony is an amazingly efficient farm, Richard; I did some work-study with them back when I still lived up there in the the frozen northland. They're very very very good at maximizing yields and crop rotations, so that the plots are rarely in full (unuseful) fallow. I'm actually using a number of their methods down here, particularly as regards grain crops (barley, wheat, maize.)