As Iran war squeezes farms, some turn to alternatives to fossil fuels

As Iran war squeezes farms, some turn to alternatives to fossil fuels

“Come boss, come boss!” yells Lars Demander, as he leans over a gate, slinging slices of tasty bread to his cows — ‘boss’ being his family’s nickname for the animals. “It’s what we’ve always called the cows,” Demander said. “It might have been my grandfather, it might have been my great-grandfather but that’s the way it’s always been.” Demander is the eighth generation to run Clover Nook Farm in Bethany, Conn. Over time, farming has become an in…