Bitter Harvest for Small Farms
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WINGINA, Va. -- To some, Richard Bean is a folk hero: the small farmer who dared to sell local, naturally raised pork chops, ribs, sausages and bacon. To the government, Bean looks like a felon.
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RIBEIRAO CLARO, Brazil  - Coffee farmers in the hills of northern Parana are buying hand-held harvesting machines to cut crippling labour costs and remain competitive.
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By Elizabeth Nash  The morning is cold and damp and the mist has barely risen from the Doana marshes. But, at Vicente Gonzalez's strawberry farm in a pine forest bordering Europe's most important protected wetlands, they've been picking strawberries since daybreak.
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With record yields forecast, sugar beet growers may have to limit what they harvest.
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Concern at the distance 'green' produce travels.
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By KAROUN DEMIRJIAN Staff Writer  For the first time in years, it's harvest time at the Meserve Farm in Scarborough. "We planted pumpkins and squash, and now it's time to pick them," said Ramona Snell, a farmer from Buxton who planted the inaugural crops in early June.
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By Susan Salisbury, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Jun. 2--Two weather-related disasters have made agricultural producers in  25 Florida counties eligible for low-interest loans, the U.S. Department of  Agriculture's Farm Service Agency said Friday.
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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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The worst drought in over a century has farmers averting their gaze from a future that looks as bleak as their fields.
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Floridaâs hurricane-damaged citrus crops will be even smaller than originally estimated, officials said Friday, raising the specter of higher prices for orange juice and an even greater scarcity of grapefruit juice.
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A move to end subsidies and offer a buyout will aid big growers and cause smaller ones to give up their fields.
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It may fall a shade shy of catching thieves red-handed, but for farmers fed up with methamphetamine cooks filching their fertilizer, staining them pink will do just fine.
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Chen Chang-wei's farm is the  size of a yard and his crop is accordingly modest.
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US soybean farmers bringing in a record harvest face a new risk: an aggressive form of fungus that could severely damage their crops next year and beyond.
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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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By Harward Esther  Neighbours of a Morrinsville mushroom plant who have complained about a bad smell for more than 10 years vented their frustration at an Environment Court hearing yesterday.
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The agricultural operator's shortfall? Taxes.