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How rural crime is costing farmers millions of pounds
2016-08-01 10:26:15| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
The cost of rural crime in the UK has risen to 42m according to NFU Mutual, with the theft of quad bikes, diesel and animals all contributing.
Newly Empowered Black Farmers Ruined by South Africas Drought
2016-07-30 21:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Almost half a decade of drought across most of South Africa has led to small towns in crisis and food imports for the first time in over 20 years, as well as severely hampering the government's planned land redistribution programme. It's the cost of food in an economic downturn that has been the immediate effect. But hidden from view is a growing social crisis as farmers retrench their workforce and the new class of black commercial farmers has been rocked by the drought. Also hidden from many...
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NFU Applauds Congressional Action Requesting Immediate Support for U.S. Dairy Farmers
2016-07-28 22:08:33| National Farmers Union
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 28, 2016 Contact: Andrew Jerome, 202-314-3106 ajerome@nfudc.org WASHINGTON (July 28, 2016) As the dairy industry faces significant market and policy setbacks, National Farmers Union (NFU) applauded todays action by members of Congress requesting immediate support for U.S. dairy farmers. In a letter sent to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Vilsack, 27 […]
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Some farmers may be underestimating the need for extreme weed control in corn and soybean fields
2016-07-27 18:19:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Palmers explosion is causing soybean field destruction, hand weeding and burning windrows behind the combine. A University of Arkansas weed scientist says the only way to rid corn and soybean fields of herbicide-resistant weeds is to use cultivation and burning in the fields. read more
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Climate Column: Why Do Farmers Care About Climate Change? Rising Temperatures
2016-07-25 14:59:50| National Farmers Union
By Tom Driscoll, NFU Director of Conservation Policy and Education According to the USDA-led report Climate Change and Agriculture in the United States: Effects and Adaptation, The entire United States is likely to warm substantially over the next 40 years, with an increase of 1° to 2° C over much of the country. USDAs Regional […]
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