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Ceva Injects Funds to Help RABI Support More Farmers
2013-10-29 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - Ceva Animal Health has shown its support for struggling farmers by injecting the sum of £15,427.00 into the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI), RSABI in Scotland and National Sheep Association (NSA) in Northern Ireland. These charities are providing vital help for financially compromised farmers across the UK.
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Farmers Make Great Strides at Harvest
2013-10-28 22:00:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Farmers feverishly working in their fields have made great strides in their efforts to complete this year’s corn and soybean harvests. Statistics released today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) show that completion of corn harvest has advanced from 39% for the week ending Oct. 20 to 59% for the week ending Oct. 27 in the 18 major crop-producing states. That compares with 2012’s record of 91% completed and the 2008-2012 average of 62% completed. read more
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$100m sugar hit for cane farmers
2013-10-28 06:43:30| Sugar Industry News
MACKAY cane grower and Queensland Canegrowers chairman Paul Schembri is tipping a new boom for the once-depressed sugar industry.
Romanian farmers choose subsistence over shale gas
2013-10-27 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The small hilly town of Pungesti in eastern Romania could be sitting on vast reserves of shale gas and U.S. energy major Chevron wants to find it. But the people of Pungesti want nothing to do with it. Though most of them live off subsistence farming, social aid and cash from relatives working abroad, they would rather stay poor than run what they say is the risk of ruining their environment. Villagers have set up camp outside the empty lot where Chevron aims to install its first exploratory...
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Sierra Leone's farmers in 'life and death' battle with climate shifts study
2013-10-26 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Changing weather patterns as a result of climate change are making life much harder for farmers in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, a country already battling with poverty, a recent study says. With 70 percent of people depending on farming for a living, erratic rainfall leading to decreasing yields is forcing many to find other ways of making money, sometimes creating additional problems, according to the study's authors. "This is about life and death, so there is need for them to come up with something...
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