S.D. farmer struggling to grow hemp
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Alex White Plume hoped his family could make a living growing hemp when he first planted seeds on an Indian reservation here, but years of fighting with federal drug officials have left him in financial trouble.
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A FORMER heroin dealer who tended a huge cannabis farm was jailed for four years and eight months yesterday.  The High Court in Glasgow heard that Joseph Kerr, 50, was looking after nearly 1000 cannabis plants in a farm in Bishopton, Renfrewshire.
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By NATE DEGRAFF  Lawns are browning. Farm fields are drying out. This month is one of the driest Mays on record.  But Guilford County is not in serious drought. Yet.
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With Maryland's breeding business falling on hard times, places like the Bonita Farm are forced to find other ways to make money on its land.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ As the number of victims climbed, health officials and farmers on Tuesday blamed each other for the years of failure to figure out how to stop E. coli outbreaks linked to Salinas Valley lettuce and, more recently, spinach.
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By Katherine Leal Unmuth, The Dallas Morning News  Feb. 18--Lydia Martinez sat in a dirt pile Saturday, potting a burr oak seedling.
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The need for a documented, steady workforce is the biggest problem facing U.S. farmers, a leading U.S. grower group said days after a mammoth bid for immigration reform collapsed on Capitol Hill.
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PITTSFIELD, Maine - An exasperated farmer has tried for weeks to corral his runaway donkey. He tried coaxing her. He tried tranquilizing her. He even tried using a horse whisperer.
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Â· More digestible feedstuff reduces production of gasÂ· Farmers could switch to different grass varieties
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Many people have so little knowledge of farming they don't realise which foods are domestically grown.   A survey commissioned by the charity Leaf (Linking Environment and Farming) claims that more than one in four (29%) of the 1,700 adults questioned had never set foot on a working farm.
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Improving the microbes and building expensive factories are two of the hurdles awaiting the cellulosic ethanol industry.
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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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GUIHUA, China -- For years now, nearly half the rice, wheat and vegetable farmers in this village in Henan province have been unable to make a living off their land. They have turned instead to more profitable migrant work in large, faraway cities.
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By Karen Lovett, The Telegraph, Nashua, N.H.  Dec. 13--HOLLIS -- A community farm project hit a snag Monday as Hollis  selectmen rejected putting town money towards its development.
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Tighter U.S. border enforcement is worsening a nationwide farm labor shortage, forcing states to compete for workers who may be illegal, industry officials said on Thursday.
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Colorado is considering letting prison inmates work on private farms after farmers complained that an illegal-immigration crackdown has left them short-handed, officials said.
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Growers and scientists were beginning to grasp the difficulties officials face in trying to pinpoint the source of the bacteria.