Deceased Farmers Got USDA Payments
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture distributed $1.1 billion over seven years to the estates or companies of deceased farmers and routinely failed to conduct reviews required to ensure that the payments were properly made, according to a government report.
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By Julie Carr Smyth  COLUMBUS  --  On paper, Ohio's farmland preservation program is a success.  In the seven years since the state began paying farmers not to sell to developers, nearly 27,000 farm acres have been saved.
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Chicago Tribune - For years, farm workers have streamed to these fields from Mexico to toil among the blueberry bushes. Under the searing sun, they grimly load trucks with buckets of fruit for little more than the minimum wage.
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DES MOINES, Iowa - A television photographer who was fired for urinating in a cemetery while covering the funeral of an Iowa soldier was denied unemployment benefits. Gerry Edwards, of Center Point, was dismissed in December by KGAN-TV in Cedar Rapids.
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US farmers given go-ahead to produce cloned meat for human food chain
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Agriculture officials are testing plant samples from three Louisiana parishes and one Mississippi county for the fungus soybean rust, which damages crop production and forces farmers to use costly fungicide treatments.
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While environmentalists applaud some measures, farmers are concerned about financial curbs.
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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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By George G. Landis, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Feb. 4--Two Berks County organizations have received grants through the state Department of Agriculture's Agricultural and Rural Youth Grant program.
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An NC Business Court judge&#39;s ruling this week frees tobacco companies from making end-of-year payments to farmers. Judge Ben Tennille ruled Thursday that the four major tobacco
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The grants aim to provide the rural poor with better seeds, healthier soil and access to new markets for their crops.
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By Sam Hananel and Mary Clare Jalonick Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- From Texas billionaires to Washington lobbyists and to people such as former NBA star Scottie Pippen, it's no secret that wealthy people can get federal farm subsidies.
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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 William Presecky, Chicago Tribune  May 24--Kane County's farmland protection program is slated to receive about $985,000 more in federal matching funds to buy development rights for about 230 acres of agricultural land in Virgil Township.
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Wayne County tobacco farmers are facing the loss of money they had been counting on for this year, an official says. Rick Tharrington, executive director of the Wayne County Farm Service Agency, said that
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WASHINGTON -- Trying to tighten the federal budget, the Bush administration on Wednesday proposed to reduce farm payments $18 billion over the next five years.
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VOLANT, Pa. - Archie Glenn's family made sure he was Deere-ly departed. The 99-year-old dairy farmer had a passion for John Deere tractors. So at his Feb.