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Former Florida Hog Farmer Awarded $505,000 over Constitutional Amendment

2013-07-31 16:54:00| National Hog Farmer

Source: U.S. Agricultural & Food Law and Policy Blog Florida passed the first constitutional amendment in 2002, prohibited the housing of pregnant sows in gestation crates. And now, Florida is marking up another first, with an appellate court decision affirming a ruling that awarded a producer $505,000 plus interest for improvements to his property that were made useless by the amendment. read more

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Pig Farmer Receives Compensation after Florida Sow Stall Ban

2013-07-30 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News

US - A Florida court has ordered the state to pay former pig farmer who was one of two farmers who went out of business after the voters approved an amendment banning sow stalls in 2002.

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Herbicides linked to farmer depression

2013-07-29 20:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Killing weeds with toxic chemicals might be making farmers clinically sad. A study of more than 700 French farmers and farmworkers found that those who used herbicides were more likely to be treated for depression than were those who avoided the stuff. From Reuters: [W]hen the researchers took into account factors linked with depression, such as age and cigarette smoking, they determined that those farmers exposed to weedkillers were nearly two and a half times as likely to have had depression....

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