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Export delays hit farmers hard
2015-02-17 12:29:55| Railroads - Topix.net
Bruce Bumstead / Brandon Sun Files Western Canadian farmers could lose more than $2 billion this year due to export delays caused by railcar shortages. U.S. buyers are sourcing grain from other suppliers, Liberal MP Ralph Goodale says.
Kan. farmers say property tax bill will hurt agriculture industry
2015-02-17 06:07:20| Agriculture - Topix.net
Kansas farmers worry new legislation could drive them out of business. A bill introduced in the state Senate last week aims to increase property taxes for agricultural land.
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Syngenta May File Counterclaims Against Farmers, Exporters Who Are Suing Them
2015-02-16 11:14:11| Agriculture - Topix.net
SYNGENTA MAY FILE COUNTERCLAIMS AGAINST FARMERS, EXPORTERS WHO ARE SUING THEM Feb. 16, 2015 Reuters reports: Syngenta AG may file counterclaims against some of the more than 750 U.S. grain farmers and exporters who have sued the seed maker over sales of biotech corn seed that disrupted trading with China last year, regulatory documents show. Syngenta, the world's largest crop chemicals company, is "assessing the scope for potential counterclaims" in response to lawsuits over Agrisure Viptera corn, also known as MIR 162, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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Sugar mills make distress sales to pay farmers
2015-02-16 09:03:07| Sugar Industry News
MUMBAI (Reuters) - India's cash-strapped sugar mills, waiting on the government to approve export subsidies, are being forced to dump supplies in the domestic market to raise cash to pay cane farmers, pulling down local prices to 4-1/2 year lows.
03.09: Lentil Underground: Renegade Farmers and the Future of Food in America
2015-02-14 01:01:37| Powells Books Events Calendar
In Lentil Underground (Gotham Books), journalist Liz Carlisle, a protégé of Michael Pollan, shares the inspiring story of a little-known group of farmers who defied agribusiness by launching a unique sustainable farm-to-table food movement. Carlisle reports on the handful of colorful pioneers who have successfully bucked the chemically based food chain and the entrenched power of agribusiness by stubbornly banding together. Lentil Underground weaves an eye-opening and richly reported narrative that will be welcomed by readers of food and farm memoirs as well as everyone concerned with the future of American agriculture and natural food in an increasingly uncertain world.
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