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The federal government has delivered a record-setting $148 million in loans to Kansas farmers during the 2009 fiscal year.
A federal Agriculture Department official in southeastern Minnesota is announcing $17 million in grants to address the needs of beginning farmers and ranchers.
After years of tilling away in obscurity, Will Allen has found sudden fame as the face of the urban farming movement.
French farmers struggling with slumping grain prices blanketed the Champs-Elysees with bales of hay and set them ablaze Friday and blocked highways around the country as they demanded government help.
An Illinois family is sowing support for a White House farmer with a Web site allowing people to nominate and vote for their favorite growers.
Greek farmers maintained highway blockades in several parts of the country after the agriculture minister on Wednesday failed to meet their demands for stronger government support.
It's like a gift from God. A tiny church in western Pennsylvania inherited more than $2 million from a farmer who lived in a mobile home. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Sunday that John Ferguson left his entire estate to Hopewell United Methodist Church near the town of Black Lick.
Most brewers of craft and specialty beers say they got into the business because they wanted to produce what the big corporate brewers weren't: artisan brews with a unique flavor.
On the last night of his life, the farmer walked into his dusty fields, choked down pesticide and waited to die.
An Amazon farmer who received death threats after reporting illegal logging to authorities was shot to death as he left his house, Brazilian media reported Saturday.
A court handed a suspended sentence Thursday to the first white farmer convicted of defying an order to vacate his property under Zimbabwe's campaign to put more land in black hands.
Militant French farmer Jose Bove and about 15 supporters called off their hunger strike in its eighth day after the government ordered the suspension of the use of genetically modified corn Friday.
He helped wreck a McDonald's restaurant, campaigned for the French presidency and now is refusing food to protest genetically modified corn.
At least 11 farmers have committed suicide in the past two days in a western Indian state after failing to repay bank loans because of crop failures, an activist group said Thursday.
An Indian state government said Saturday it is dropping plans for an industrial zone after deadly riots by farmers furious that their land was being taken for the project.
Farmers angry over plans to build an industrial park on their land torched a government office Thursday in a second day of unrest in eastern India that has claimed 14 lives.
Charges were dropped Tuesday against a retired farmer who earned widespread accolades for chasing down a gasoline thief while wielding a shotgun.
A farmer who chased down a thief and held him at gunpoint until authorities arrived now faces a more serious charge than the thief himself.
Alien baby stumps experts - Bizarre creature found by Mexico farmer is it elaborate hoaxIs this bizarre creature really an alien baby or just part of an elaborate hoax? Mexican TV revealed the almost unbelievable story - in 2007, a baby 'alien' was found alive by a farmer in Mexico.
Farmer warned to silence cockerels A farmer has been warned to keep his cockerels quiet or pay a £5,000 fine because a new neighbour complained about their crowing.
600 lb. Piggy Who Got Away Off To ButcherA big pig got away. A big pig stayed by the chickens. Sue saw the big pig. Sue called Ryan. Ryan fixed his truck. Ryan got his pig back. The big pig goes to the butcher Tuesday. Ryan will get bacon. Sue might get bacon. The story did not say. And they all lived happily ever after.
Food Purists Go Straight To Source - Buying Direct From Farmers!A small but growing number of consumers are going beyond even the farmer's market, traveling hundreds of miles each year to get their produce, meat, and even fish straight from the source. Some take turns with neighbors picking up meats at farms hundreds of miles away.
Tai chi cows produce more milk?A dairy farmer who believes a happy cow is a productive cow has discovered an unusual way to relax his herd and increase milk yields.
Video of Washington Global Health Alliance Lecture: Dr. Paul FarmerA video of a June lecture at the University of Washington, Seattle: Dr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health, speaks on the current climate of global health (Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series lecture).
Hearing from global health leader, Dr. Paul FarmerDr. Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners in Health which brings health care to impoverished nations, spoke at the University of Washington about global health issues. He said, "Seattle is world headquarters of global health."
Cow attack sparks damages concernFarmers have expressed disappointment and concern at a legal ruling in favour of a walker hurt when she was attacked by cows as she crossed a field.
Trapper busy catching hogs in Milam CountyAs an outsider, it is difficult not to see the decimation of the buffalo through yesterday's buffalo hunters morphing into today's wild hog killers.
Mad tractor driver stopped by police shotsPolice have stopped a deranged man who ran amok while driving his tractor.
North Carolina Chicken Farmer Charged with Insurance Claims FraudA North Carolina chicken farmer has been arrested for allegedly lying to his insurance company about how some of his chickens died and the theft of a "pooper scooper" and a fan.
World News - Footage of Israeli Military Shooting Gaza FarmersIsraeli Military Shoot Gaza Farmer - 18th February 2009 Israeli forces shot a twenty year-old Palestinian farmer as he worked his land in the village of Al-Faraheen, east of Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip.
The Charlie Daniels Band - American Farmer - Free MP3 Stream on IMEEM MusicAmerican Farmer performed by The Charlie Daniels Band, (P) 1985 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Philip José Farmer, Daring Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 91 Philip José Farmer, a prolific and popular science fiction writer who shocked readers in the 1950s by depicting sex with aliens and challenged conventional pieties of the genre with caustic fables set on bizarre worlds of his own devising, died Wednesday.
Sci-Fi Author Philip Jose Farmer dead at 91Science fiction author Philip Jose Farmer died this morning at his home. He was 91.
Farming's family unites for Jake's tractor paradeSo much so that the nine-year-old, who is dying of cancer, told the Children's Wish Foundation he wanted to visit the John Deere factory in Moline, Ill. to see the tractors and other farm implements there.
Vermont dairy farms face a grim year aheadVermont begins 2009 with 1,078 dairy farms, only 19 fewer than a year ago. The drop in farm numbers was the smallest in modern memory, despite a wet summer, shrinking milk checks and skyrocketing oil prices that drove up the cost of buying or producing feed.
An organic farmer and anti-pollution advocate was shot to death on Monday while in the midst of exposing an illegal toxic dumpsite on his property to the mediaChalla Krishnamurthy started a 20-acre organic farm in Gowribidanur, India with the intention to make it a model for how others should treat the land.
Nudist chicken farmer likes to show off his peckerA German farmer dumped by his wife for walking around in nothing but his wellies has won the hearts of millions of TV viewers and nudists.
The Food Issue: an Open Letter to the next Farmer in Chief"But while there are alternatives to oil, there are no alternatives to food." - Minimize the amount of oil used in agriculture. - Decentralize food production - Redefine "food" - "edible education" And alot more.
Reviving the Family FarmGetting back to basic truths. Family farming is good for the economy, the land, and for feeding people!
We have all seen it. The slow decline of the family farm in rural America. More and more we are seeing lands given over to development projects, some of which never get any further than stopping the growth of crops.
Unidentified Flying Something Spotted | The Beacon Herald"It wasn't a helicopter or an airplane," she said. "There were a lot of combines in the field but it wasn't a combine." "If it was a Halloween trick they got me good." More Articles
Seeking Africa's Green RevolutionBy applying a mixture of crop breeding, soil management, irrigation and diversification, agro-science experts are helping subsistence farmers to cope with climate change and buck the trend in neighbouring African countries. More Articles
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