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Raisin Farmers Have Constitutional Rights Too
Ilya Shapiro Long-time California raisin farmers Marvin and Laura Horne have been forced to experience firsthand the costs that America’s regulatory state imposes on entrepreneurs, especially...
View ArticleAgriculture • Facing drought, U.S. farmers return to crop rotation
Facing drought, U.S. farmers return to crop rotationTom Polansek, Reuters | Updated: 01/18/2013 Farmers in top U.S. grain states are planning to rotate to other crops after repeated plantings of corn...
View ArticleAgriculture • 35 Winona County farmers have collected more than a $500K ea
2013-03-12T00:00:00Z 2013-03-12T08:57:17Z 35 Winona County farmers have collected more than a $500K each since 1995 By Nathan Hansen | nathan.hansen@winonadailynews.com Winona Daily News 20 hours ago •...
View ArticleAgriculture • Britain’s farmers are facing the third poor harvest
Beleaguered farmers’ third poor harvest in a row mean British shoppers will rely on imported foodCrops from potatoes and peas to cereals are being hit, leading to increased reliance on imported...
View ArticleAgriculture • Canadian farmers planning huge wheat plantings
Canadian farmers planning huge wheat plantingsCanadian farmers are planning even bigger switch to wheat this year than had been thought, at the expense of barley and rapeseed – although the late spring...
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Farm subsidies encourage farmers to gamble with crops.
If we subsidize the planting of crops which year after year are blown out by drought or swamped by heavy rains, we will continue to get people planting these sorts of crops. If the climate changes...
View ArticleAgriculture • US farmers behind in spring plantings by 48m acres
US farmers behind in spring plantings by 48m acresThe extent of the delays in US spring sowings reached the equivalent of an area the size of Hungary and Portugal combined as cold and wet weather,...
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Farmers Starting to Resent Strings Attached to Subsidies
Sallie James Earlier this week, farming and some conservation groups announced that they had come to a deal to link eligibility for crop insurance premium subsidies to compliance with conservation...
View ArticleAgriculture • Genetically modified alfalfa protested by Canadian farmers
Genetically modified alfalfa protested by Canadian farmers http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/s … otest.html CBC News Posted: Apr 9, 2013 11:07 AM ET Last Updated: Apr 9, 2013 4:18 PM ET Farmers...
View ArticleAgriculture • Farmers slog through remaining corn plantings; yields threa
Farmers slog through remaining corn plantings; yields threatened Additional rainfall from late Thursday into the weekend will further stall corn and soybean plantings in the U.S. Midwest, threatening...
View ArticleAgriculture • Wet season: Area farmers continue to struggle with crops
Wet season: Area farmers continue to struggle with crops • By SAMANTHA LUHMANN sluhmann@lee.netWet and cloudy weather conditions continue to throw farmers for a loop as crop progress ranks below...
View ArticleAgriculture • Farmers confront challenges of drying aquifer
Farmers confront challenges of drying aquifer Western Kansas farmers like Jesse Garetson depend on underground water pumped from the High Plains Aquifer. (JUL. 30, 2013 Frank Morris Imagine enough...
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Good News! U.S. Can Keep Sending $147m (per annum) to Brazilian Cotton...
Sallie James Phew. That was close. Earlier this month, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said that without a new farm bill to replace the 2008 farm bill, the USDA would not have the authority or the...
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Is the FTA Responsible for the Plight of Colombian Farmers?
Juan Carlos Hidalgo Colombian farmers have staged widespread and sometimes violent protests over the past week demanding a change in economic policies. One of their main complaints is over the Free...
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