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Fewer modern farmers rely on almanacs for insights

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By LINDSEY ANDERSON

Associated Press

BOSTON – Scott Freitas’ grandmother always followed the farmer’s almanac, but the fourth-generation farmer never does.

Selling corn and apples at a recent farmer’s market in Boston, Freitas said the almanacs are more for fun than real-life farm use, and he relies on experience instead.

“I do what our family’s been doing,” he said.