Fogging irks farmers
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Peterson is angry that after 15 years of banning pesticides and non-organic fertilizer on his fruit, vegetable and herb farm, Maricopa County officials sprayed his property with chemicals this week to kill mosquitoes spreading the West Nile virus.
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By GALLOWAY, Jill  There's a lot of stuff you don't want to tell people, say hill- country farmers the Raineys.
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By CARPINTER, Bernard  DROUGHT in Hawke's Bay has left farmers facing a bleak winter in spite of recent rain, Hastings Mayor Lawrence Yule has warned.
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NEW YORK  - Farm workers seem to have an elevated risk of developing a serious lung condition more typically seen in smokers, a study has shown.
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Farmers living outside Indonesia's flood-hit capital said Monday they were struggling to survive after hundreds of square miles of land were inundated, destroying rice and other recently planted crops.
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THE Environment Court has fined a farm a record $35,000 for illegally discharging effluent.   Plateau Farms owners Frank, Alan and Elizabeth Crafar pleaded guilty to effluent discharge on one of their Reporoa farms.
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Darkening skies and a light morning drizzle blanketed the fields while combines harvested corn and tractor-trailers hauled away this year's crop. Even though he knew what was coming, Brian Watkins hopped out of his pickup truck and stepped into his office to check the weather forecast on his computer.
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Manure generated on large U.S. livestock farms, which can later contaminate soil and water, has lead to a fierce debate over whether farmers and ranchers should be held responsible for cleaning up the mess.
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Growers and scientists were beginning to grasp the difficulties officials face in trying to pinpoint the source of the bacteria.
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BLUEMONT, Va. Outside Barbara Holland's little house in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a cold drizzle falls through a thick fog. Inside the house, it's warmer and drier and the fog isn't water vapor; it's cigarette smoke.
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Financial results were fierce for this agricultural enabler.
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CONESTOGA, Pa. - To longtime rural residents, the smell of manure is something they hardly notice...
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Farmers in the Northern Plains often worry about what the weather could do to their crops Â but they seldom think about what their crops could do to the weather.
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It depends on where you are, but for many drought-stricken farmers, the Midwest rains are alleviating a bad summer for soybean and corn crops
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By Angel Riggs and Michael Overall, Tulsa World, Okla.  Feb. 13--OKLAHOMA CITY -- Aggravated farmers seem ready to put down their guns now that environmentalists have taken steps to protect crops from wild elk, officials said Monday.
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DWIGHT, Illinois  - Illinois farmer Rick Parker was busy spraying his crops with pesticide this week but weeds were not his biggest worry as he surveyed his fields.
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By Gardner Chris  Dirk Seiling wonders whether some of his fellow dairy farmers care about keeping dairy effluent out of streams.