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Tech/equipment editor @FarmDaily. MFA in creative nonfiction. Previously @TheRecorderNews @DailyHampGaz @GoNOMAD @AmerCityCounty @MDCollegian @WWLP22News

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Andy Castillo’s Biography

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Andy Castillo is the health and food feature writer at the Daily Hampshire Gazette in Northampton, Massachusetts.

After traveling the world as a writer for GoNOMAD.com Travel, and reporting for The Greenfield Recorder, Andy returned in 2018 to his hometown newspaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette.

He delivered the Gazette for a number of years as a teenager, weathering its delivery transition from an evening to morning newspaper in 2006.

Later, he studied English at the University of Massachsue…

Andy Castillo’s Journalist Portfolio

Lee Shumway of Hadley works to give others a chance against a disease that is paralyzing him, ALS

Lee Shumway of Hadley works to give others a chance against a disease that is paralyzing him, ALS

It started with an ankle roll as UPS driver Lee Shumway of Hadley was delivering a package.Soon, it happened …

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Rebalancing the body: Samuel Whiting, Wim Hof Method instructor

Rebalancing the body: Samuel Whiting, Wim Hof Method instructor

Floating in the Mill River Wednesday, Samuel Whiting of Florence inhales deeply and relaxes into the chilly w…

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Between The Lines: Local TV Stations Have Abandoned Their Journalistic Integrity

Between The Lines: Local TV Stations Have Abandoned Their Journalistic Integrity

As a newspaper journalist who cares deeply about good, necessary and morally grounded journalism, I must decr…

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Dingle, Ireland: Forgotten Desolation

Dingle, Ireland: Forgotten Desolation

By Andrew Castillo Heavy is the ground that carries lost souls. Heavier still the voice of a man whose family…

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Neck injury sidelines one of Santa's local helpers

Neck injury sidelines one of Santa's local helpers

SUNDERLAND - For close to 50 years, Kenneth Kushi, 71, has donned the classic red suit and brought life to th…

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Articles

Bulletproof 1939 tractor won’t surrender to age

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By Andy Castillo
| Farm Progress Verified
When gearing up for an uncertain growing season or a frenzied harvest, it’s easy to perceive farm machinery as a business investment — but it’s more than that. Eighty-seven years. That’s how long George May’s 1939 J.I. Case DC4 has rumbled across his family’s Pennsylvania farmland. “The tractor is right there where it has always been in Wattsburg,” said farm broadcaster Max Armstrong about this week’s tractor selection.
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Farmers face tough choices as equipment prices stay high

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By Andy Castillo
| Farm Progress Verified
Weighed down by geopolitical tensions, new equipment sales remain low, while original manufacturers continue to cut back output to meet slackened demand. Bottom line is, well the bottom line: Most farmers have good reason to stick to window-shopping. Even with $44.3 billion in direct government payments — nearly $14 billion more than last year — net farm income is expected to fall by $1.2 billion, according to USDA’s Economic Research Service.
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Meet ‘Snoopy,’ International Harvester’s iconic 2+2 tractor

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By Andy Castillo
| Farm Progress Verified
“Snoopy” is not just the nickname of the Red Baron’s plucky pup nemesis. It also dubs a mechanical oddity that’s this week’s tractor selection — a 1983 International 2+2 6588 tractor restored by Rollie Moore of Oneida, Ill. “Yes, there was a tractor by the name of Snoopy, nicknamed after the cartoon character, with that long nose, the beagle who was so famous back in the day,” said farm broadcaster Max Armstrong about the memorable machine.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

My first job, other than writing for my university's newspaper, was as a media intern at the North East Climate Science Center.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

I was an English major in undergrad, and sometimes wrote with a typewriter.

How is social media changing news?

These days, everyone can tell their own story. News comes from firsthand accounts. Increasingly, journalists are becoming curators of news.