In New Jersey, Farm Aid nets over &#36;1.5M
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More than 25,000 people rocked to John Mellencamp's "Little Pink Houses," sung along with Dave Matthews' "Crash into Me" and raised more than $1.5 million for farming at this weekend's Farm Aid concert.
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By Laura Griffith, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  May 28--Farm bureaus all over the state are looking out for the best interests of area farmers as the business of agriculture continues to change.
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Farm-state senators are increasing their request for drought relief dollars by half, saying the nation's farmers now need an estimated $6 billion or more in assistance.
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SHELBY, Miss. -- From 2001 to 2005, the federal government spent nearly $1.2 billion in agricultural subsidies to boost farmers' incomes and invigorate local economies in this poverty-stricken region of the Mississippi Delta.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 15  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today announced the investment of nearly $77 million to protect Pennsylvania's farmland. In addition, $14 million was approved for the preservation of 47 farms totaling nearly 5,000 acres.
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WASHINGTON - The House pushed nearly $14.5 billion for hurricane victims and struggling farmers toward passage Saturday as lawmakers sought to shower money on Florida and other pivotal states in the upcoming elections.    After weeks of delay over everything from budget cuts to milk subsidies, House-Senate bargainers added the natural disaster aid to a $10 billion military construction measure...
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The federal government awarded nearly $1.4 billion in grants to support local homeless programs Tuesday, a slight increase from the amount doled out a year ago.
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House-Senate bargainers neared agreement Friday on an election-season &#36;14.7 billion package of aid for East Coast hurricane victims and drought-stricken farmers, participants said.
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Some small farms, faced with stagnant income and mounting expenses, are opening up their operations to nonagricultural activities just to survive.
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By John Holland, The Modesto Bee, Calif.  Feb. 21--Well-placed federal money could help San Joaquin Valley farmers provide food while caring for the land, speakers told two congressmen Tuesday.
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The Farm Aid benefit concert is planting itself in New York City later this year, organizers said Monday.
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JARUCO, Cuba  - Down on the ranch, the talk among the cattle hands is that help is on its way.
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PRAIRIE CITY, Iowa  - Gordon Wassenaar has his eye on a $300,000 combine harvester to replace the 1990 model he repairs each winter in the workshop on his farm. And he just bought more land to add to his 1,600-acre spread.
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By Kevin Bonham, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Feb. 24--A large-scale hog production business in Forest River, N.D., has  received a $71,000 grant from the North Dakota Agricultural Products  Utilization Commission.
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By RAYMOND A. EDEL  For the first time since its inception, Farm Aid is coming to the Garden State.  Co-founders Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Neil Young, along with Farm Aid board member Dave Matthews, will headline the 1 p.m. Sept.
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Indonesia's main donors pledged on Thursday to give &#36;5.1 billion in aid this year, far more than Jakarta expected, including &#36;1.7 billion to help rebuild northern Sumatra, where 166,000 people died in last month's tsunami.
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It is great to see that the dairy farmers have recently received an increase in milk payouts of more than a billion dollars.