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On the Hi-Line, Steve Swank and Warren Lybeck formed a partnership to plow prairie and plant organic crops beginning in 1998, after their families' operations put conventional cropland into CRP. "We didn't quit farming," Swank says. "We just moved our farming south a little bit." By the end of this year, he says, the duo will have "torn up" about 10,000 acres of prairie. Swank and Lybeck say that the CRP contracts are not related to their sodbusting; the farms enrolled in CRP are "run as totally different entities" than the organic farm, Swank says. But the CRP payments to their families are substantial. From 1998 to 2002, Lybeck's family's farm received about $430,000 in federal subsidies, including $176,000 through the CRP; from 1999 to 2002, Swank's family's farm received about $310,...
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NGIRESI, Tanzania- Farmer Loi Bangoti picks corn by hand on the lush, cool slopes of his land, nestled under the cloudy shadow of Africa's highest mountains. Some African countries are considering subsidies for their own farmers Malawi has started providing discount vouchers for seed and fertilizer to farmers and is seeing such a bumper crop that it now sends emergency corn to neighboring Zimbabwe. African nations have also joined in lawsuits opposing American subsidies, resulting in a World Trade Organization ruling in October that the U.S. could face billions of dollars in sanctions. I built my own modern house," Bangoti, 50, says proudly, sitting under a shiny tin roof surrounded by dark blue concrete walls. "I was able to send my children to school. ... A long time ago, you could h...
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As the eat-local movement grows in Mid-Missouri, so do the area farmers markets. LEARN MORE
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Sept. 22 Marks Official Anniversary of Historic Farm Aid Concert CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On September 22, 1985, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young organized the first Farm Aid concert to help family farmers stay on their land. Twenty-five years later, with the added support of Dave Matthews, who joined the Farm Aid board of directors in 2001, Farm Aid leaders say the organization is going strong.
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NEW ORLEANS, July 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance(SM) (USFRA), comprised of prominent national, regional and state agricultural groups and their partners, today announced plans to lead a conversation with Americans, addressing concerns about their food, where it comes from and how it's raised. This movement will give farmers and ranchers a voice in traditional and social media conversations about agriculture - where it doesn't exist now - as well with key influencers who are shaping the "good food/bad food" debates in popular culture. Farmers and ranchers will ask consumers about their greatest concerns with today's food production practices and share the agriculture community's dedication to continuously improving how food is raised in order to provide hea...
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There is a growing movement connecting farmers with consumers. Newspaper coverage of last week's "Chemicals, Obesity and Diabetes: How Science Leads Us to Action" forum held at Colby College should act as a serious wake-up call for all of us.
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It has been decades since '60s groupies beckoned "come gather 'round people .. for the times they are a-changin'," and the hippie movement spawned a wave of farmers markets and food cooperatives Times are indeed a-changin' as that counterculture movement goes mainstream, including government efforts to help close the "grocery gap" in low-income, urban neighborhoods.
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Cooking Down East," by Marjorie Standish (Down East Books) $27.95 Anyone who knows me also knows I have a big place in my heart for the state of Maine - its craggy coastline, its resilient people and of course, its food. But while their far-reaching reputation is well- deserved, good Maine food is more than lobster, blueberries and baked beans. The locavore movement, connecting fishermen, farmers, cheese-makers, beekeepers and brewers with cooks and restaurants, has long flourished in this artisan-rich state.
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LONDON -- Britain said Wednesday it was easing a nationwide ban on moving livestock that was imposed after an outbreak of foot-and- mouth disease in southern England, adding there was a low risk of the disease spreading outside the immediate area. Chief veterinarian Debby Reynolds said farmers outside the six- mile surveillance zone set up around the farms where the outbreaks occurred would be able to send their animals to slaughterhouses as of midnight Wednesday.
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I have wanted to catch up with Bridgewater organic farmer Jim Gerritsen ever since he was named in October to the 2011 list of 25 visionaries who are changing the world by the national magazine Utne Reader. When I finally succeeded last weekend, he was on his way to New York City to give a speech and participate in the Dec. 4 rally and "Farmers' March" to Zuccotti Park organized by the Food Justice Committee of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Gerritsen, 56, who with his wife, Megan, and their family has operated Wood Prairie Farm in Bridgewater since 1976, is on a mission that has put him in the national -- and international -- spotlight. As president of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association, the trade organization for the organic seed industry, he is the lead plaintiff in a suit ...
