Ill. Farmers Fight Off Pipeline
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LE ROY, Ill. -- This expanse of central Illinois is flat as a pancake, with corn and soybean fields stretching to the horizon, interrupted only by a smattering of small towns.
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Deadly methane gas emanating from a dairy farm's manure pit killed five people &#151; a Mennonite farmer who climbed into the pit to unclog a pipe, and then, in frantic rescue attempts that failed, his wife, two young daughters and a farmhand.
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By Jake Griffin Daily Herald Staff Writer  Nearly two hours of neighborly debate about the fate of 6 acres of farmland wedged between two tranquil ponds in central Naperville devolved into several shouting matches at Tuesday's city council meeting.
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By BRANDON LARRABEE  ATLANTA - Bob Rawlins raises his cattle and cultivates his crops far away from where a battle over the state's water supply could break out next year, but he knows the fallout could affect him and fellow farmers far into the future.
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Citrus growers across the state spent an uneasy night as a blast of bone-chilling air lingered over the East, forcing some farmers to try to save their crop beneath a layer of ice
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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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The latest food-contamination case raises the stakes for growers and public officials.
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A Tennessee elk and bison ranch and a national deer farmers' group are challenging Kentucky's law banning deer or elk from being transported into the state.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Philip Morris and lawyers who won a ten-(B)billion-dollar judgment against the company are fighting again. The cigarette maker on Monday asked the Illinois Supreme Court to disqualify a Chicago
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An unusual battle is being waged against Whole Foods in Burbank, Calif., not over its business practices, but the threat it poses to the communityâs horse owners.
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BANGALORE, India -- For three generations, two families have fought over an acre of farmland in an arid stretch of southern India, each waving documents to support its claim.
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Pennsylvania&#39;s tobacco farmers, including those in Lancaster County, stand to lose millions of dollars over the next several years.
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Converting corn and soybeans into fuels is contributing to higher food prices. The dispute is how much.
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By David Hendee, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 14--LINCOLN -- Water managers and irrigators in Nebraska's Republican River Valley will face gut-wrenching decisions in coming years if Gov. Dave Heineman carries out a new plan to prevent another legal clash with Kansas.
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Many in the beet industry have taken the trade deal, a pact with Central American countries signed by the administration, as a sign of fading support for sugar protections, and they are fighting back.
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Across the U.S. Midwest, women are keeping farms running, not by driving trucks or feeding cows, but by working in stores, offices and factories.
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Hundreds of angry French farmers mounted blockades around the country Monday to hold up fuel shipments in protest at soaring diesel and gasoline prices and to press their demands for government aid.