Farming
Farming, or agriculture, is the science or art of cultivating the soil, growing and harvesting crops, and the raising of animals. Beginning some 10,000 years ago, people in various places arou...
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Farming
Farmers in antebellum America were committed to a mix of subsistence and commercial production. Slavery and the cotton gin drove the rapid expansion of cotton farming in the South. Slavery and...
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Labor, Farm
The rise of organized labor in agriculture is epitomized by the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), the largest and oldest union of agricultural laborers in the nation, and its influence...
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A bill promising $40 million in federal aid for a citrus industry recovering from this winter's deep freeze is likely to collapse because it's attached to an Iraq supplemental funding bill that the...
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Unions and nonprofit groups said Tuesday that they will sue the Environmental Protection Agency in a bid to ban a popular pesticide they say sickens farm workers and rural residents.The United Farm...
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Lawmakers announced bills to provide more than $1.2 billion in grants, low-interest loans and assistance to growers and workers affected by a recent crop freeze, last year's heat wave and flooding....
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Cotton producer Weldon Melton has planted most of his fields, but the seedlings could be in trouble if cooler-than-normal temperatures continue.Melton, like a lot of farmers in the nation's leading...
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When the annual Farm Progress Show opens, one crop will be front and center: corn.American farmers have planted more of it than ever this year _ 92.9 million acres _ and prices have stayed high, la...
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TITLE: "Bobby"LENGTH: 30 secondsAIRING: California, Massachusetts, New York and ArizonaSCRIPT: (Robert F. Kennedy Jr.) My father tried to be a voice for the most alienated and disenfranchised membe...
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Farmworkers and environmental groups reopened a lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency in an attempt to force the agency to more quickly phase out the use of a pesticide that the group...
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On a sunny day when her fellow college students were grabbing beach towels and beer, Nathalie Sanchez was knocking on the doors of farmworkers left jobless after a freeze killed much of the state's...
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In the 1960s, farm labor leader Cesar Chavez rallied fieldhands to speak out against a guest worker program that recruited millions of Mexicans to pick crops at low wages.Today, farmworker advocate...
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Citrus farmer aid tied up in Iraq bill
