Category: farmers
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So True
Some times things are going on that I have no way of relating to people who aren't in the agricultural business. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/14/news/business/20-costs.txt">This story about rising prices for agricultural producers</a> is one of those things. It very clearly explains how rising production costs are really eating into any money we might be able to make…
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Disaster Aid Try
We all knew it was coming, the Democrats are <a href="http://www.brownfieldnetwork.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=32F6DE3C-B0AB-D5A0-DDB2E28D1840FA22">adding agricultural disaster aid</a> into a "supplemental spending bill." When I first saw this headline it looked like maybe Congress was finally going to get somewhere with Disaster aid for those who need it. It turns out I was wrong.<br />n<br />nThe Democrats are <a…
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Quite A Change
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061211/lf_nm/cities_dc" >In epochal shift, half humanity to become urban</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>With the world poised to enter an urban age when more people will live in cities than in the countryside, Josiah Tobiko sees no need to move from his cow dung-covered hut in rural Kenya.<br />n<br />n"You can choose city life with televisions and…
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Beet Farmers
I've mentioned before the problems the beet farmers are having getting the sugar beets in and now it has come to my attention how much worse it got. Last week on Monday and Tuesday it got really cold and froze the beets. Once the beets freeze like this the farmers have lots of trouble.<br />n<br…
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Pulling Beets
<center>We took a little drive on Sunday and took some pictures, here is one of them.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pulling10292006.jpg'><img width='700' height='467' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/pulling10292006.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I've mentioned the trouble the beet farmers having getting their beets out of the ground. Here you see they are finally able to get them mudded out…
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Disaster Aid Update
The Democrats in the House are coming out swinging full guns on this one.<br />n<br />n<blockquote> September 12, 2006<br />n<br />nThe Honorable Dennis Hastert The Honorable John Boehner<br />nSpeaker Majority Leader<br />nU.S. House of Representatives U.S. House of Representatives<br />nWashington DC 20515 Washington DC 20515<br />n<br />nDear Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Boehner:<br />n<br />nWe…
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Disaster Relief Going Nowhere
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/11/news/state/50-billions.txt" >Billions for drought a tough sell</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Penny Altendorf isn't a farmer, but the ongoing drought is affecting her family nonetheless.<br />n<br />nShe and her husband Richard own an aerial sprayer company, a business that is dependent on the weather in eastern North Dakota where they live. And it's been so dry this…
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Nutrition
<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/health/261163_veggie01.html?source=mypi">Fruits, vegetables not as nutritious as 50 years ago</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In spite of what Mother taught you about the benefits of eating broccoli, data collected by the U.S. government show that the nutritional content of America's vegetables and fruits has declined during the past 50 years — in some cases dramatically.<br />n<br />nDonald Davis,…