Local farmers honored for conservation efforts
Herald-Dispatch
Alvin Stone, Glenn and Joetta Stone of OK Hill farm in Liberty, W.Va., were named the Putnam County 2009 Conservation Farmers at the Western Conservation DistrictÕs 63rd Annual Awards Banquet. POINT PLEASANT, W.Va. -- Farmers in Putnam, Mas...
Farmers fight climate bill, but warming spells trouble for them
MalaysiaNews.net
WASHINGTON -- Farm state senators and others soon will get a taste of what their colleagues from Missouri already have piled high on their desks: thousands of letters from farmers urging them to vote...
Web site reaches out to anxious farmers
Argus Leader
In all South Dakota, there is no greater bet on the table than the corn and soybean crop sitting in wet fields that anxious farmers are scrutinizing for damage and trying to get in the bin. "It's a record crop, and producers have record inv...
Council eyes farmers market policies
Sonoma Index-Tribune
The Sonoma City Council will look at complaints about the Sonoma farmers market. Confronted by a years-long series of complaints about management policies at the Sonoma Valley farmers market, the City Council will consider some recommended ...
Warm Weather Helping Slumping Area Farmers
Channel 3000
BROOKLYN, Wis. -- The beautiful early November weather was welcomed by area farmers still trying to overcome the setbacks experienced by this year’s unusually cool summer. Soy bean and corn growers are about one month behind where they'd li...
One more weekend for farmers market
Highlands Ranch Herald
Roasting peppers perfume the air at the Highlands Ranch Farmers Market. Nov. 1 is the last day for the market in 2009. Vendors are open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in Town Center.
Kansas Farmers Struggling to Get Crops Harvested
KWCH.com
(SEDGWICK COUNTY, Kan.) When we first interviewed Max Tjaden, in early September, he figured he was only days away from harvesting his corn and soybeans. When we caught up with the Clearwater farmer on Saturday, two months later, he was sti...
Roald Dahl's "Fantastic Mr. Fox" a great read...share it in the ...
Examiner
Fantastic Mr. Fox was written by Roald Dahl in 1970, but its humor, charm and lessons are timeless. This is a fun read-aloud, full of surprises and lessons. Fantastic Mr. Fox must feed his family and outsmart three bumbling farmers to do so...
California's Plan to Keep the Water Running
Time
Everyone has known of that doomsday scenario for years — a time in which the needs of farmers, the ambitions of environmentalists and the thirst of cities clashed. The big news this week is that California finally passed legislation to over...
High-yield crop can improve cane farmers condition, say experts
Express India
Even as sugarcane farmers are bitterly agitating over better price realisation for their produce, thinking heads of the sugar industry, under the aegis of the Sugar Technologists...
Forty rice farmers in limbo after losing their crops
The New Sabah Times
KENINGAU : Forty rice farmers in Kg Panagatan Ulu here have lost their crop and their source of income for this year due to dry fields. Fuad Dulasim, 36, whose livelihood depends solely on rice farming blames the Department of Irrigation an...
TFGA asks dairy farmers to call off Nat Foods' boycott
Stock & Land
The Tasmanian Farmers and Graziers Association has called on dairy farmers supplying National Foods to accept the company’s latest offer and to call off those pushing for a boycott on its products.
Culver eases propane rule, looks to help farmers
Quad Cities Onlines
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Gov. Chet Culver is easing road rules for truck drivers who are carrying propane into Iowa. The proclamation issued Saturday is part of an effort to help the state's corn and soybean harvest. The move suspends the ho...
March of Dimes and Dallas Farmers Market had foodies hopping on ...
Pegasus News
Dallas is a big city, but is it big enough to accommodate two massive foodie/charity events in a single night? Luckily, the simultaneous occurrence on Thursday night of the March of Dimes' 14th annual Signature Chefs of Dallas auction and t...
W. Africa's last giraffes make surprising comeback
Boston Globe
Killing a giraffe became punishable by five-year jail terms and fines amounting to hundreds of times the yearly income of farmers. The changes had a startling effect: by 2004, the herds had nearly doubled in size. The government "realized t...
