Farmer
Farmers make a living by managing or operating farms, places where plants (crops) or animals (livestock) are raised to be sold to others. Crops include grains such as wheat, vegetables, fruits;...
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Zimbabwe's national security minister has told the country's last remaining white farmers that they will be jailed if they refuse to abide by a deadline that passed over the weekend for them to lea...
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A Mennonite farmer who claimed he would suffer "eternal damnation" if he complied with the state's numbering system to sell ducks won't be expected to follow the rule after all.State Agriculture De...
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Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate this week would entice farmers located near ethanol biorefineries to grow dedicated energy crops.Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., said his bill would offer incenti...
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The changes have come lightning quick in the nearly three decades since Missouri agricultural extension agents first preached the power of computers to skeptical farmers.Gone are the bulky main fra...
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Abidjan (dpa) - Cocoa farmers in the Ivory Coast, the world's
largest cocoa producer, began an indefinite strike Monday demanding
higher prices and lower export taxes.
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Higher milk prices might be unwelcome news for grocery shoppers, but they have been a lifeline for dairy farmers who lost money last year when prices bottomed out."Things are a lot better this year...
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Farmer Loi Bangoti picks corn by hand on the lush, cool slopes of his land, nestled under the cloudy shadow of Africa's highest mountains.Half a world away, farmer Tim Recker drives his combine thr...
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BEIJING, Dec 24 (Reuters) - China has detained at least
three farmers on subversion charges for making bold calls for
private land ownership in the countryside, an attempt to curb
land seizures by...
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China will step up efforts to educate farmers on their property rights and encourage them to resolve land disputes through legal means, officials said Tuesday, in a push to curb protests over illeg...
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Growing cotton is a family tradition on Webb Bozeman's farm in central Mississippi. But not this year.Inspired by soaring demand for corn to feed the growing ethanol industry, Bozeman is joining a ...
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