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Poor Farmers in the Sahel Require Urgent Funding
2013-09-05 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
SAHEL, AFRICA - About 11 million people in the Sahel are still severely food insecure, FAO warned. Poor families have used up their food stocks and are facing high food prices awaiting the next harvest. FAO is appealing to the international community to increase funding for aid to the most vulnerable farmers and herders in the region south of the Sahara.
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Trade Agreement with Ukraine Offers Dutch Farmers More Opportunities
2013-09-04 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
NETHERLANDS - Dutch agriculture stand to benefit from a proposed free trade agreement between Ukraine and the Netherlands.
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Push To Label GMOs Could Impact Farmers' Bottom Lines
2013-09-03 18:41:04| Agriculture - Topix.net
An effort under way across the country as well as locally to label foods containing genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, has the potential to impact the state's agriculture industry.
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Fighting Pest, Farmers Find Strange Ally: A Drought
2013-09-01 00:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Texas drought has left crops parched across the state, but the lack of water could have unintended benefits for South Texas farmers in one of the states longest-running agricultural battles. For the past two decades, the Texas Boll Weevil Eradication Foundation has conducted a program to eliminate the ubiquitous beetle, which punctures cotton pods to lay eggs that destroy the plants yield. By setting pheromone traps to detect weevils, spraying chemicals to eliminate them and changing farming...
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Farmers Union hosting farm bill rally at fair
2013-08-31 12:56:24| Agriculture - Topix.net
The Saturday afternoon event put on by the Farmers Union and a number of other agricultural groups aims to show the agriculture industry's support of a new farm bill.
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