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| Does this make sense? Canadian Gov't pays farmers to kill 150,000 pigs | | 2008-05-09 18:39:26 | | The pork industry is on the verge of collapse in Canada and so the government will be paying $50 million to kill off 150,000 pigs. Each farmer who wants to participate must kill off an entire breeding barn of pigs and agree not to restock the barn for three years. About 25% of the meat will go to food banks; none will enter the market.Besides the rising price of feed, new rules from the U.S. which will require "Country of Origin" labeling is reducing the demand for Canadian pork from American companies.Farmers are encouraged to send their iigs to euthanizing centers, although nothing prevents the pigs from being killed on the farm. Article at Canadian Press.How about if the government helps these farmers transition to crops that will always be needed, that helps the environment by reducing methane, and that doesn't require the taking of a life?Atom
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| | Farmers Markets in Orange County | | 2008-05-07 02:27:00 | | If you live in Orange County and love fresh fruits and a good time, check out one of these 3 local Farmers Market.Brea - Chic Market located at Birch Street and Brea Boulvevard on Tuesdays from 4 PM to 8 PM. It is small but filled with fresh food and unique goods.Fullerton - Downtown Fullerton at the Fullerton Museum Center Plaza on Thursdays from 4 to 8:30 PM. There is lots of great stuff for kids here inlcuding face painting, pony rides and the popular air jet water fountain!Yorba Linda - Old Towne Yorba Linda on Saturdays from 9 AM to 1 PM. Located just off Main Street and Imperial Highway. Near the Yorba Linda Library. | | By: Daytrippingmom | | |
| | Is Monsanto Targeting Farmers in Scorched Earth Policy? | | 2008-05-06 11:27:29 | | SHOULD WE CARE?If I had a child (and thank goodness I DO NOT) I would not allow them to consume hormone treated anything. I have a tendency to use organic when I think about it, but then we’re just dealing with me. I’m not all that worried about what I consume at home. If I’m cooking it, there’s a 90% chance it will not be edible and I’ll end up throwing it out. I HATE COOKING! Seriously, when it comes to children, I don’t think I would do anything but organic, and then would want to trace where ... | | By: The Pink Flamingo | | |
| | Humor jokes-Old Farmers | | 2008-05-04 23:12:57 | | Two old farmers had hauled a truck load of squirming hogs eighty miles from their west Kansas farm to the nearest market. The old truck had overheated twice; the hogs were keeping the truck rocking, even when it was stopped, and the hot summer Kansas wind was drying them out fast.Within three miles of the market, they passed a tavern and pulled in for a couple of draft beers. The place was dimly lit and air conditioned.After about 20 minutes, one says to the other, "It's going to be really hard to get up, but I reckon we ought to."About that time, a quite obvious prostitute walks up to the bar, works her way in between them, and says, "You guys look about ready for action. I'll do anything you want me to do for $60."The old farmer pulls three $20 bills out of his pocket and replies, "Here you go, Ma'am; git that load of hawgs to the Maple Street auction barn." | | By: Really funny jokes | | |
| | In Argentina’s Grain Belt, Farmers Revolt Over Taxes | | 2008-04-26 21:13:19 | | By ALEXEI BARRIONUEVO
WENCESLAO ESCALANTE, Argentina — When the government decided in March to raise taxes on farmers’ profits, it set off a rural revolt in Argentina. For three weeks enraged farmers blocked roads nationwide, paralyzing grain and meat sales and causing food shortages. Since then, the government has been trying to quell Argentina’s restive farmers [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
| | Catfish farmers wriggling as prices jump | | 2008-04-22 01:01:00 | | The price of tra and basa catfish has leaped about 1,500 VND/kg in the past month, but the opportunity for a bigger profit may be tempting some farmers to breach existing export contracts in favour of new buyers.
High demand on the world market, as well as input costs, drive the price increases, said Buu Huy, deputy director of the An Giang Food and Agricultural Produce Import-Export Co (AFIEX). | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | US group to train cocoa farmers to minimise loss, expand operations | | 2008-04-21 09:20:00 | | Avram E Guroff, senior vice president of Agricultural Co-operative Development International and Volunteers in Overseas Co-operative Assistance (ACDI/VOCA) spoke to Viet Nam News about cocoa.
What is your assessment of the Vietnamese and global cocoa markets?
I think it’s very hopeful in Viet Nam. It looks like production will be going up substantially in the next couple of years. With this | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Rice exports could fulfil farmers’ dreams | | 2008-04-11 10:42:00 | | The price of rice jumped from US$393.5 a tonne last January to an unprecedented $561.8 last month. The previous all-time-high was $535 a tonne in June 1981.
The average price for the first three months was $478.81 – 44.78% higher than in 2007.
"We harvested a profit of VND22mil (US$1,365) for the winter-spring crop with a yield of 8 tonnes per ha," said delighted farmer Le Thien Tai, from My | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | As Prices Rise, Farmers Spurn Conservation | | 2008-04-09 00:07:26 | | The Food Chain : By DAVID STREITFELD
Out on the farm, the ducks and pheasants are losing ground.
Thousands of farmers are taking their fields out of the government’s biggest conservation program, which pays them not to cultivate. They are spurning guaranteed annual payments for a chance to cash in on the boom in wheat, soybeans, corn [...] | | By: ArticlesModern | | |
| | Find Colorado Farmers' Markets | | 2008-04-06 10:00:39 | | The Colorado gold rushes filled many with hopes of wealth and encouraged them to go to great lengths to pan for rare gold nuggets. Today, living in a state where most think vegetables and fruits come from a major grocery store, I feel like the dedicated gold seeker as I look for fresh, locally grown early spring produce.The longer spring days are urging my body to find local produce that still has its water and nutrient content in abundance. Because our climate is not like California or Florida, most of us have to wait until June or July to shop our local markets. At least that is what I used to think but Santa Fe has a winter farmer's market. I haven't been yet, but I am curious to see what is available there. Maybe Coloradan's just aren’t that committed to local produce.Thankful a few hearty souls open the farmer's markets early so I plan to show up right away to see what is available.Boulder's Farmers Market opens April 5, 2008 Fort Collins' Farmers Market opens April 19, 2008High | | By: Safe Green Living | | |
| | Picky Eaters In Your Family? Try Buying Fresh From Your Local Farmers Market For Better Taste –9 More Reasons… | | 2008-03-28 07:40:00 | | My son will not eat grocery store fruit because it's too hard, too soft, too sour, too whatever. He will eat any fruit I buy from the farmers market because it tastes good and has the right texture. I know fruits and vegetables from the store do not taste the way they did when I was a kid. It's because of many things like chemicals, being picked unripe, poor soil and the time it spends in trucks before it ever makes it to my store. I buy local because I want my son to eat fruits and veggies and I want them to be clean (remember the recalls.)Why buy local? 1. Locally grown food tastes better.Food grown in your own community was probably picked within the past day or two. It's crisp, sweet and loaded with flavor. Produce flown or trucked in from California, Florida, Chile or Holland is, quite understandably, much older. Several studies have shown that the average distance food travels from farm to plate is 1,500 miles. In a week-long (or more) delay from harvest to dinner table, sugars | | By: Whole Food And More | | |
| | Coffee Farmers Can Earn More by Improving Technique | | 2008-03-28 06:35:00 | | Coffee farmers can increase Viet Nam’s export earnings by up to US$100 million by improving their collection technique, Mr. Luong Van Tu, chairman of the Vietnam Coffee and Cocoa Association, told participants in a seminar on coffee market prospects and quality.
Farmers should harvest coffee two or three times a year and should not collect green or unripe beans, said Mr. Tu.
Coffee prices rose | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Mekong catfish farmers threatened by high costs, low market price | | 2008-03-22 05:18:00 | | The increasing costs of breeding fish and a drop in market prices have left tra catfish farmers in the Mekong Delta on the verge of bankruptcy, said Chairman of the Can Tho Fisheries Association.
Chairman Bui Huu Tri said that the cost of breeder fish, salt and other fish rearing materials were in some cases up to 4 times higher than they were a year ago.
But the highest cost increase has been | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Farmers need more help to boost rice sales | | 2008-03-17 04:57:00 | | In 2007, Vietnamese rice exports were just $5 cheaper than rice exported from Thailand. Prof Vo Tong Xuan tells the Sai Gon Economic Times why he doesn’t think this is indicative of a narrowing price gap.
What do you think of the idea that the pricing gap between rice of Viet Nam and Thailand is narrowing?
The short gap in price between rice exported from Viet Nam and that from Thailand is | | By: Vietnam Business Finance News | | |
| | Union Budget 2008: Complete waiver of all loans for marginal and small
farmers: Chidambaram (Budget Highlights) | | 2008-02-29 00:36:00 | | The highlights of the Indian budget for 2008-09 presented by Finance Minister P. Chidamabaram in the Lok Sabha Friday:1. Over 8 percent growth for 12 successive years2. Maintaining growth with price stability3. Maintaining supply of food main task in coming fiscal4. Concern: Inflationary trends5. Concern: Capital inflow exceeds current account deficitFarm growth disappointing at 2.6 percent6. Gross budgetary support rises to Rs.380 billion7. Education gets 20 percent more to Rs.344 billion from | | By: Brand Mantra | | |
| | The Greatest Wonders of Farmers Auto Insurance in Flint, Michigan | | 2008-02-22 18:06:24 | | Often, by the time that they reach young or middle adulthood, individuals and families have located an insurance company in whom they have trusted for several years. These companies, such as Farmers auto insurance in Flint, Michigan, have demonstrated an excellent track record of customer service and less costly premium rates.When people move from state to state, they often take these preferences along. Drivers with Farmers Auto Insurance who lived before in Georgia, for example, will usually prefer to continue working with the same insurance company as long as this company is licensed to provide insurance in the new state. They will probably, however, need to locate a new agent after moving.While many companies are licensed in nearly all of the 50 states, a few are not, and it is important to check and make sure that the company you want to use is licensed in the state in which you reside. In addition, the company that you have used before may or may not offer the best rates in Michig | | By: Auto News: Car Reviews, Car News, Car Shows | | |
| | French farmers attack Spanish wine lorries | | 2008-02-10 03:44:00 | | Around 50 members of the young farmers’ group, Jeunes Agriculteurs, blocked the lorries’ path at a toll station just outside Montpellier on Tuesday.Moments later, protestors cracked open four lorries’ vats and sent more than 100,000 litres of red and white wine pouring onto the motorway floor. Other lorries carrying fruit and vegetables were also attacked.
| | By: French Wine News | | |
| | | | Spending Money on Farmers Through the Tax Code | | 2007-09-11 07:00:00 | | We all know that farmers don't get enough money from Washington through traditional spending means (i.e. direct appropriations). So Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) feels it is necessary to further increase spending to farmers indirectly through the tax code. From the Associated Press:The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee is proposing a series of agricultural tax credits, bonds and a trust fund as part of a farm bill that would give billions in aid to farmers and pay for the nation's nutrition programs.Montana Sen. Max Baucus, a Democrat, said Tuesday that his committee will find an extra $8 billion to $10 billion through new agriculture-related tax proposals. That would be added to the bill's baseline spending, estimated to be more than $280 billion over five years....The finance panel's proposals include a trust fund that would pay for weather-related disaster assistance - a priority in Baucus's home state. That could set up a fight with Agriculture Committee Chairman Tom Harkin | | By: Tax Policy Blog | | |
| | Small scale farmers in Central Kenya into Floriculture | | 2007-07-27 07:00:00 | | BDAfrica Small scale farmers in Central Kenya are making inroads into floriculture industry, encouraged by the arrival of flower varieties that do not require greenhouses.
The new varieties, developed by the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute?s (Kari) Embu station, save farmers the trouble of marshalling huge capital investments that have been limiting entry into the business... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | The National Farmers Union exhibit | | 2007-07-12 07:00:00 | | Yorkshire postSOME of the very best of Yorkshire's produce brought together by growers from across the region was assembled on a stand which won the Flower Show at the Great Yorkshire Show.
The National Farmers Union exhibit, runner-up in the last two years, scored 98 per cent to take the best in show award, but would have achieved 100 per cent if only one more piece of turf had been laid to complete the stand... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Horticultural farmers Urged for proper storage facilities | | 2007-07-10 07:00:00 | | All AfricaHorticultural farmers in the North Rift region have asked the Government to supply them with proper storage facilities.
They also want the Horticultural Crop Development Authority (HCDA) to offer them training on how to improve the quality of their crop to meet world market standards.
Those interviewed said they were unable to penetrate the European market due to stringent consumer requirements on the quality of their produce... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Politics: Farmers sue DEA to allow them to grow industrial hemp | | 2007-06-20 15:49:23 | | BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Two farmers granted the first licenses in the nation to grow industrial hemp filed a federal lawsuit Monday to get final permission from the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The lawsuit asks a federal judge to recognize that hemp is allowed to be grown in North Dakota, said the farmers’ attorney, Tim Purdon.
Industrial hemp, [...] | | By: What a Weenie! | | |
| | Farmers on the race-track | | 2007-05-25 22:23:00 | | Rev up your motors and join the 'quiet' Florida farmers as they rip it up on the race-track. Taking a break from generating an annual turnover of $87 billion in their day to day activities these boys can make a noise too. Take a look at the promo video on YouTube to see what they get up to on their day off!!Paid to post entry | | By: Munny4Hunny | | |
| | Shop green at farmers markets | | 2007-05-19 13:00:09 | | One way to make sure that your weekly or daily grocery shopping trip is as eco friendly as possible is to find a local farmers market and get your groceries there, of course you may not be able to get everything that you need, but as far as food is concerned there is nothing more eco friendly than buying from the person who grows it.
By using local resources you are cutting out on all the traveling that your food would normally be doing, supermarkets and food manufacturers transport food all over the country, sometimes it is bought in one place gets transported to the central distribution points and finally sometimes returns right back to where it started from, all those miles to end up a few hundred yards from where it was grown, now that is defiantly not eco friendly.
Why not give it try; you never know it could start you on the road to a new eco friendly life.
Source [Groovy Green]
Eco Friendly, eco friendly, farmers market, Food, food manufacturers, groceries, local resources | | By: Zedomax | | |
| | Farmers given a greater gas allowance | | 2007-05-04 07:00:00 | | Delaware onlineOnce upon a time -- before the Internet -- people sought out plant experts such as Eddie and Debbie Morris who absorbed knowledge the old-fashioned way, at the hands of parents and grandparents.
As third-generation growers at W.D. Martine & Sons Inc. on their spread along Shipley Road in Brandywine Hundred, Eddie and Debbie are caretakers of a business, as well as inheritors of a lineage of knowledge that stretches back 100 years.
A sign still refers to Eddie, 69, and Debbie, 68, as floriculturists (flower growers), a term used to refer to the business since World War II. With gas rationing, flower growers were considered farmers and given a greater gas allowance than horticulturists, considered plant specialists.... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Regional farmers markets | | 2007-04-16 07:00:00 | | KitsapsunWest Sound farmers markets are gearing up to start the 2007 season. Fresh flowers and vegetables, soaps, lotions, candles, hand-made clothing and bird houses are just a few of the many locally produced items that bring big crowds out to these popular markets.
And farmers market fans were pleased to note that some have already opened... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Hmong flower farmers suffering from devastating floods | | 2007-04-06 07:00:00 | | MetrokcEveryone with a flower garden has the ability to help Hmong flower farmers recover from last November's devastating floods, by bringing dahlia tubers to five area nurseries on Saturday, April 14.
The Hmong farmers, who came to the Northwest as refugees from the Vietnam War, have played a major role in revitalizing agriculture in King County.
Their primary source of income is selling bright bouquets of dahlias and other flowers at the Pike Place Market, plus neighborhood markets throughout King County... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Snowfall spells, gripped Kashmir farmers | | 2007-03-21 06:00:00 | | Daily IndiaLast week, the entire north India was gripped by unseasonal rains and snowfall attributed to the western disturbance.
Farmers in Jammu's Doda District have been badly hit by unseasonal snowfall in the region that has damaged blossoming flowers of various fruit crops.
Especially affected are apricot, almond, peach and plum crops, dampening prospects of a good yield, as fresh blooms are covered under thick layers of snow... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | Solemn Ritual of Rice Farmers | | 2007-02-08 01:54:00 | | It's the regular ceremony performed by farmers in Klungkung regency, notably in the subak teritory of Kacang Dawa located some 4.5 km south of Semarapura city. This ceremony is executed when the planting season comes. Within a year there are paddy and and crop plant seasons. They cultivate twice crops and one paddy. The most unique ritual can be encontered on the paddy season (usually in November to December). Prior to planting the rice, they cultivate the soil twice. The second one is meant to eradicate the entire weeds so when the paddy flourishes the growth of weeds could be minimized. When the soil has been cultivated for two times, farmers get down to find the propitous day to plant the rice seedlings. More than that, on commencing to scatter rice seeds is also carried out on a finely selected day. A propitous day to do this is called meniwih. By such propitous day, they believe that the rice planted seeds will develop in a healthy or vigorous way, away from the plant’ | | By: Bali Travel Guide | | |
| | Minister defends flower farmers | | 2006-12-15 07:00:00 | | Eastandard
An Kenya assistant Minister has warned councilors from the Naivasha Municipal Council against scaring away investors in the flower industry.Mrs Jane Kihara of Environment ministry lashed out at the council over its planned move to collect cess from flower farms in the area.
Kihara, who is also the area MP came out strongly to defend the flower farms following a sustained onslaught by the council in recent days.She accused the councilors of intimidating the investors by issuing threats to coerce them to start paying cess to the cash strapped council starting January... | | By: The Flower Expert - Flowers Encyclopedia | | |
| | | Fresh from the Farmers Market | | 2006-08-07 21:03:00 | | I made this recipe about a week ago after stopping by my local farmers market - there's nothing like fresh veggies and fruit from area farmers. I altered the recipe slightly from the one provided by Cornell Cooperative Extension.Fresh Beans with Basil and PastaIngredientsServes 2-31/3 cup Balsamic Vinaigrette Dressing1 lb green or yellow beans, trimmed1 small boiling onion, sliced3 tbsp. fresh basil, choppedpasta of your choiceStep 1 - Heat dressing in large skillet on medium heat. Add in beans and onions, cover. Cook for 5 minutes or until beans are crisp-tender.Step 2 - While beans are cooking, begin cooking your pastaStep 3 - When done, mix pasta with beans. Top with basil and cook for an additional minute, covered. Serve warm. | | By: Best In Food | | |
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