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To survive, farmers trade do's and don't
[ Everett Herald ]
May 20, 2008 County farmers share their knowledge through tours conducted with help from WSU's Small Farms Team and Tilth Producers.
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China Quake kills 12.5M farm animals
[ AP via Yahoo! Finance ]
May 19, 2008 China's devastating earthquake killed 12.5 million farm animals -- mostly chickens -- and wrecked vegetable crops and irrigation systems needed to grow rice, the government says.
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Farmers' green harvest
[ The Columbus Dispatch ]
May 21, 2008 BROOKVILLE, Ohio -- When he was laid up in the hospital recovering from knee surgery, farmer Ralph Dull picked up a thick notebook dropped off by a friend that detailed how wind generators are being used to produce electricity.
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Iowa legislators pleased with passage of
[ Shenandoah Valley News Today ]
May 20, 2008 It may take more time and work, but good things can happen when Congress acts in a bipartisan fashion, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin said Friday. He was referring to the 2008 Farm Bill that won overwhelming support among Democrats and Republicans in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.
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A wave of green thumbs
[ The Myrtle Beach Sun News ]
May 20, 2008 High prices at the pump and the produce aisle have sent home gardeners into their yards with a mission: Grow-it-yourself dining. Sales of vegetable seeds, tomato transplants and fruit trees are soaring as enterprising planters grow their own food. W. Atlee Burpee & Co., the nation's largest seed company, has sold twice as many seeds this year as it did last year, with half the increase from new ...
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Reaching Well Beyond the Farm
[ NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance ]
May 20, 2008 Few pieces of legislation generate the level of public scorn heaped upon the farm bill, but few pieces of major legislation get such overwhelming bipartisan support.
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Oranges out, veggies in at former Scripp
[ The Palm Beach Post ]
May 20, 2008 It was planned to be home to The Scripps Research Institute, but vegetables may be the only thing rising on a portion of the embattled Mecca Farms property - at least for the next few years.
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Let the planting begin
[ Rapid City Journal ]
May 21, 2008 Using a philosophy similar to farming, a city greenhouse specialist has created more than 200 different designs for the 250 flower beds in a dozen different parks in Rapid City. Tim Forster and his garden staff of Nancy Wold, Jason Solano and Cheryl Greytak have been preparing for this stage of the summer's growing season since January. Now all that's left is the planting.
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Farming threatens three important Philip
[ AFP via Yahoo! Malaysia News ]
May 19, 2008 Three of the most important rivers in the Philippines are at risk from water depletion due to illegal conversion of their common watershed into cabbage farms, officials said Monday.
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U.S. farm bill reaches deep into cities
[ International Herald Tribune ]
May 20, 2008 Beyond subsidies, the farm bill touches on many issues of enormous importance to lawmakers and their constituents, rural and urban alike.
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As economy stumbles, home vegetable gard
[ Belleville News-Democrat ]
May 21, 2008 High prices at the pump and the produce aisle have sent home gardeners into their yards with a mission: Grow-it-yourself dining. Sales of vegetable seeds, tomato transplants and fruit trees are soaring as enterprising planters grow their own food.
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China says quake killed 12.5 million far
[ The New Zealand Herald ]
May 19, 2008 BEIJING - China says the devastating earthquake killed 12.5 million farm animals and wrecked vegetable crops and irrigation systems needed to grow rice.
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