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Jerry McReynolds usually cuts his own wheat fields.
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AP, Buenos Aires
Argentina’s lower house of Congress on Saturday approved a package of grain-export taxes that have sparked nationwide farm protests and food shortages.
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AP, Buenos Aires
The Argentine Congress is debating on live television a proposal to increase grain-export taxes that has sparked farm strikes and food shortages across the country.
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AP, Indianapolis
Indiana will use $50 million in state funds to help farmers get low-interest loans _ money they can use along with federal funds to restore their flood-damaged fields.
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AP, Woodland
Having to make due with less water, California farmers are reassessing their planting of tomatoes, cotton, corn and other water-intensive crops.
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The U.S. Forest Service has subsidized corn and soybean farming on its lands for years _ and rankled environmentalists are now suing the agency for what they say is an...
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AP, Lorenzo
With the price of diesel skyrocketing, farmers and ranchers around the country are being targeted by ne’er-do-wells armed with syphon hoses and pumps.
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AP, Wichita
Kansas farmers were finally able to get into their fields to harvest winter wheat over the weekend as the ground dried out ahead of the next wave of storms.
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AP, Milwaukee
The heart of Wisconsin’s cherry industry is a glum place these days: There’s little to harvest after a drought and cold winter.
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AP, Brentwood
A woman who claimed she was an angel sent from God to punish pedophiles was convicted Friday of murdering two boyfriends by a jury that rejected her insanity defense.
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AP, New Orleans
Just as south Louisiana’s citrus growers are starting to recover from Hurricane Katrina, they have a new threat: a fatal citrus disease that has infected...
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AP, Buenos Aires
President Cristina Fernandez told thousands of supporters Wednesday that a three-month strike against grain export-tax hikes was undemocratic and demanded that farmers...
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AP, Washington
Congress has enacted a massive $290 billion farm bill for a second time after a clerical error in the first bill threatened delivery of U.S. food aid abroad.
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AP, Washington
Congress is moving toward enacting a $290 billion farm bill for a second time after clerical error in the first bill threatened delivery of U.S. food aid abroad.
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AP, Washington
President Bush on Wednesday vetoed a $290 billion farm bill for a second time, sending it back to Congress after a printing error threatened the delivery of U.S. food...
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AP, Buenos Aires
President Cristina Fernandez announced Tuesday that a contentious grain export tax hike will be sent to Congress for debate, agreeing to a key demand of farmers who...
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AP, Lubbock
In more than four decades of farming, South Plains cotton producer Rickey Bearden says he’s never seen an early growing season like this one.
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AP, Buenos Aires
Thousands of Argentine farmers protesting grain export tax hikes returned to road blockades and suspended exports on Sunday, angry over a police crackdown at a...
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AP, Buenos Aires
Argentine authorities broke up a farmers’ highway blockade Saturday, briefly arresting about 20 protesters including a prominent leader of a months’ long...
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AP, New York
America’s biggest wholesale produce market is looking to leave New York _ if the city doesn’t help rebuild its aging, outdated facility in the Bronx.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - As more Americans get sick while health officials look for the cause of a salmonella outbreak sweeping the country, consumer groups said on...
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AP, New York
America’s biggest wholesale produce market is looking to leave New York _ if the city doesn’t help rebuild its aging, outdated facility in the Bronx.
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Fruit and vegetable farmers would reap a bonanza of new money in a giant farm bill passed by the House on Wednesday that for the first time includes significant...
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A technology used to track everything from cattle and bottles of Viagra to U.S. military weapons will soon be tested on an unlikely candidate for surveillance:...
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In this April 29, 2008, photo, a man pushes a shopping cart down a produce aisle at a Maumelle, Ark., Wal-Mart Supercenter store. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on Tuesday, July 1, 2008 unveiled a new Web site noting their efforts to provide locally grown produce...