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Tanzania: Chinese Bank to Help TIB to Develop Credit Line for Farmers. Nov 26, 2009 426
Washington State Mexican Fruit Growers Converge on Olympia to Push for Access to Capital and Credit. Oct 12, 2009 368
Cereal growers urged to look at production costs. Aug 20, 2009 447
Cruel farmer costs RSPCA pounds 30k a mth; WRANGLE. Aug 15, 2009 158
Cruel farmer costs RSPCA pounds 30k a week; WRANGLE. Aug 15, 2009 158
Snip will cost [euro]240m to save e204m, say farmers. Aug 6, 2009 341
Bangladesh: Only 5pc farmers under agri credit coverage: Muhit asks BKB, RAKUB to expand branch network. Jul 30, 2009 490
Southern Thai Shrimp farmers upset over plummeting prices for exports: cold storage capacity is tapped out as demand slows in major foreign markets in the throes of economic recession. Farmers and exporters favor pledging program to absorb surplus. Jul 1, 2009 697
More farmers under pressure from recession. Jun 25, 2009 360
NZ biofuel imports cause misery. Brief article Jun 22, 2009 155
'Cooling the earth' with energy and food sovereignty: social movements in the third world propose anew paradigm for energy sovereignty, linked to food sovereignty which will reduce global warming emissions and fossil fuel use. Moreno, Camila; Mittal, Annuradha Jun 22, 2009 2262
Families hungry for local produce; FOOD STUDY: Shoppers keen to support region's farmers and economy. Jun 22, 2009 421
Farmers can get recession aid. Apr 14, 2009 146
Organic farmers say time is ripe for them; Local alternative called safer, cheaper. Jan 19, 2009 507
Mashing success: discussion of a recession has some people down, but potato growers say what's bad for the economy could be an opportunity for the category. Radice, Carol Jan 1, 2009 2204
Making a move: organic growers predict strong demand despite a weak economy as consumers focus on health benefits. Levitt, Craig Jan 1, 2009 2158
Merrier Christmas: tree farms seeing green in a red-ink economy. Sanders, Bob Brief article Dec 19, 2008 289
Land reform bites the dust: one of the most important and emotive issues of South Africa's liberation struggle, the land question, has officially bitten the dust--albeit temporarily. So far, only 4% of the 87% of farmland forcibly taken from blacks in 1913 has successfully been redistributed since the ANC came to power in 1994. Pusch Commey reports from Johannesburg. Commey, Pusch Dec 1, 2008 1531
Farmers, ranchers struggling with increasing costs of health care. Nov 1, 2008 449
Small farms not immune to drought, pests, economic woes: discount water pricing program for growers could end next month. Chambers, Heather Oct 6, 2008 621
Philippines: P31.5 billion worth of credit packages available for farmers, fishermen. Aug 28, 2008 277
California's Farmers and Ranchers Hit Hard by Health Care Costs. Jul 23, 2008 1324
Farmers not benefiting from rising food prices; Farming Shoppers could be forgiven for thinking farming is booming when they're faced with the rising cost of the weekly grocery bill. Farm gate prices may be increasing but so is the cost of production, as Karen Dent reports. Jul 19, 2008 465
Farmers 'well placed' to weather economic storm; Farming. Jul 14, 2008 403
WHOLE WAY OF LIFE IN DANGER; Jamie Smart: Farmer Farmers, fisherman, hauliers and couriers are urging Gordon Brown to save them from rocketing fuel costs. France and Spain have given grants of up to pounds 24,000 for fishermen struggling to stay afloat. Scots crews want similar help. LESLEY ROBERTS speak to the Scots whose businesses face ruin.Are you listening, Mr Brown? Jun 8, 2008 199
TRUCKS DRIVEN OUT OF BUSINESS; Ian Thomson: Haulage manager Farmers, fisherman, hauliers and couriers are urging Gordon Brown to save them from rocketing fuel costs. France and Spain have given grants of up to pounds 24,000 for fishermen struggling to stay afloat. Scots crews want similar help. LESLEY ROBERTS speak to the Scots whose businesses face ruin.Are you listening, Mr Brown? Jun 8, 2008 192
Jimmy Buchan: Trawlerman; Farmers, fisherman, hauliers and couriers are urging Gordon Brown to save them from rocketing fuel costs. France and Spain have given grants of up to pounds 24,000 for fishermen struggling to stay afloat. Scots crews want similar help. LESLEY ROBERTS speak to the Scots whose businesses face ruin.Are you listening, Mr Brown? Jun 8, 2008 279
Heat is on Amazonian small farmers. Jun 1, 2008 404
WALES: Farmer's gorse cutting costs pounds 10,000. May 29, 2008 307
NFU urges farmers to keep a close eye on costs; Farming. May 8, 2008 350
Farming: Farmers see higher prices but suffer higher costs; NFU VIEW. May 3, 2008 528
Greener pastures: how family farmers are planting for a sustainable future. Sweas, Megan May 1, 2008 3297
Farming: 'More pig farmers to quit' as feed costs soar. Apr 18, 2008 450
Small earners face brunt of economic fallout: the effects of the violence that engulfed Kenya post the December elections, as usual, have fallen most severely on the small-scale farmers and workers. Dennis Onyango went on a fact-finding mission to the rural heartland of Kenya. Here is his report. Onyango, Dennis Mar 1, 2008 1405
In With The New - Problems But Are There Solutions? Nov 6, 2007 568
Farmers warn on rising feed costs; farming. Sep 6, 2007 683
With an Epidemic of Suicides Sowing Despair across the Indian Countryside, WIDE ANGLE Reports on the Plight of Farmers Left behind by India's Soaring Economic Boom. Aug 21, 2007 694
Farmers in fear after pounds 8bn cost of 2001 disaster; FOOT AND MOUTH IS BACK. Aug 6, 2007 257
Rigged trade ruins world's poorest farmers. Jun 22, 2007 3336
Farmers escape poverty on wings of butterflies; U.S. museums like unfamiliar species; Low-impact business helps local economy. Jun 15, 2007 605
Death by cotton: Richard Swift travels to the troubled cotton belt of eastern Maharashtra, where a tragedy has been unfolding. Swift, Richard Apr 1, 2007 2323
Fruitful competition. Macdonald, Alexander Apr 1, 2007 556
Demand for alternative fuel likely to hurt N.H. farmers. Brooks, David Feb 2, 2007 612
A fowl plague: small farmers are the main victims of avian flu--even when they don't get sick. Nierenberg, Danielle Jan 1, 2007 3522
Debts for farmers, pounds 1.6m for training. Nov 30, 2006 310
Debts for farmers, pounds 1.6m for Training. Nov 30, 2006 310
Pig farmers could be facing average pounds 12 a tonne feed costs rise; farming. Nov 17, 2006 300
Poultry farmers step up fight on IPPC costs. Oct 25, 2006 442
If it strikes again... who foots the bill? FARM & COUNTRY Farmers angry at advance levy to cover costs of fighting diseases. Sep 7, 2006 555
Canal renovation. Case, Spencer J. Apr 1, 2006 466
Living from the land: rural Chinese are under pressure as never before, with threats coming from all sides. Tan, Yan Feb 1, 2006 1990
After centuries, China to repeal tax on farmers; Source of unrest; As economic disparity widened, rural residents protested. Dec 30, 2005 539
EU deal 'may cost Welsh farmers dear. Dec 22, 2005 267
Cut costs or go out of business; Warning as farmers face fight for survival. Nov 24, 2005 433
Since Zimbabwe's president-for-life Robert Mugabe began to implement "fast-track land redistribution" (which is to say, forcible dispossession of white farmers) in 2000. Brief Article Oct 24, 2005 201
U.S. Sen. Mark Pryor, D-Ark., won Senate approval of an amendment to bar the closing of Farm Service Agency offices until a review can be done to see if the closings would be cost effective and improve services to farmers. Oct 3, 2005 70
The development of community economic system of thung Kula Ronghai farmers at Ban Ta yuak, northeastern Thailand. Rithidet, Prasopsuk; Piampongsan, Preecha; Prathepa, Preecha; Yodmalee, Boonsom Oct 1, 2005 1820
Capturing a piece of the rural lifestyle pie. Anderson, Barb Jun 1, 2005 1406
The Great Trek north: in an uncanny echo of the Great Trek of 1836, white farmers from Zimbabwe, Namibia and South Africa are moving north--some going as far as Nigeria. The host governments hope to benefit from the skills of these farmers and the farmers want somewhere safe to settle. Is it a deal made in heaven? Tom Nevin reports. Nevin, Tom Jul 1, 2004 1635
Plea to support Third World farmers. Brief Article Jun 1, 2004 291
Africa welcomes Zim whites: white farmers, kicked out of their agricultural holdings in Zimbabwe, are finding a warm welcome in other African countries even as far away as Nigeria. What do African governments hope to gain from them? Ford, Neil Dec 1, 2003 1646
The new peasants' revolt. (Keynote). Ainger, Katharine Jan 1, 2003 2877
Young instructor farms out marketing knowledge. (faculty lounge). Brief Article Apr 1, 2002 201
Bad deal. Brief Article Mar 11, 2002 267
Let us thank them for our food. (editors' note). Schlumpf, Heidi Editorial Mar 1, 2002 484
Kenya: mine all mine. Majtenyi, Cathy; Njoroge, Clement Nov 1, 2000 1629
YOU'RE GOING TO EAT THAT? Polter, Julie Nov 1, 1999 795
Plowing new ground in agriculture. Industry Overview Feb 1, 1995 1003
Midwest states, hog producers benefit from Farmland patronage refunds. Dec 5, 1994 388
The outlook for local agriculture grows uncertain. Deady, Tim Sep 9, 1991 919
Bravo, David Stockman. Leonard, T.F. Jun 28, 1985 1661
One and one half cheers for David Stockman. Hyde, Henry J. Jun 28, 1985 2356
The ever haywire granary. Mar 22, 1985 368
Farm blues. McLaughlin, John J. column Mar 22, 1985 889

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