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Texas rice farmers go 2nd year without water
2013-03-03 00:07:25| Energy - Topix.net
A Texas water supplier is cutting off irrigation waters to downstream rice farmers for the second consecutive year.
Climate change dates back to dawn of first farmers
2013-03-02 13:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
USA Today: Chopping down trees with flint axes, planting peas and shearing sheep those all sound like the prosaic duties of the earliest farmers. But those same Stone Age sodbusters were likely changing our planet's climate, researchers are now suggesting, long before the greenhouse gas emissions of the industrial era. And that means the "Anthropocene" era, the time of humans making a mark on the planet more striking than natural forces, extends not just to the beginning of the industrial era but to the...
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Vilsack Champions Agriculture, Farmers, Rural America, Stresses Need for Farm Bill, End to Sequester
2013-03-01 22:34:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Secretary of Agriculture spoke to a group of over 1,500 farmers and ranchers at Commodity Classic in Kissimmee, Fla., this morning. He championed America's farmers for their willingness to conserve and be sustainable as well as their efforts to build rural America. read more
British Farmers Stand at Pivotal Moment for Food Production
2013-03-01 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
UK - NFU President Peter Kendall has used his opening address at Conference 2013 to argue that the horse meat scandal shows the need for a major shift in the way food is delivered.
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Land Bank Extends P39.9B Loan to Small Farmers, Fishers in 2012
2013-03-01 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
PHILIPPINES - The Land Bank of the Philippines released P39.9 billion loan in 2012 to further strengthen support to small farmers and fishers.
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