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Northern U. S. Flooding May Cut Wheat Crop, Boost Soy

North Dakota and Minnesota face the worst spring flooding in years, which could prompt farmers to cut spring wheat plantings by as much as 500,000 acres in the four main wheat-producing U. S. states. Farmers still able to seed a crop will look hard at soybeans, which can be planted as late as early June,
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Danish Farmers Hit By Credit Crunch, Low Food Prices

Danish farmers, already hit by lower food and land prices and higher production costs, are struggling to get new credit from banks after years of investing heavily in production facilities, land and technology. “We have calculated that as many as nine to 10 per cent of the farmers are in acute financial problems,” Lone Saaby,
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City And Farming Water Needs Collide

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“I don’t think the American public has gripped in its gut what could happen. We’re looking at a scenario where there’s no more agriculture in California.” – U. S. ENERGY SECRETARY STEVEN CHU California almond farmer Marvin Meyers has moved into banking – water banking that is. In the heart of the San Joaquin Valley,
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Bulgaria Farmers’ Anger Mounts With Crisis

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Hard-pressed farmers buckling under debts, high costs and weak prices in Bulgaria are becoming more militant in a bid to force government help for a sector that was already on life support before the crisis. Farmers are frustrated that endemic corruption and bureaucracy are blocking their lifeline – 6.5 billion euros ($8.86 billion) of subsidies
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Brazil Soy Growers Fear Green Backlash, Plant Trees

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Soybean farmer Clovis Cortezia has started replanting native rainforest trees on his farm to meet demands of international buyers keen to be environmentally responsible. Like other growers in Brazil’s No. 1 soy-producing state Mato Grosso, Cortezia started replanting trees native to Brazil’s centre-west savanna in 2007 on 4.6 hectares of his 8,000-hectare farm in Lucas
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Lower Costs Buffer Crop Price Declines

Falling prices of inputs like fertilizers and agrochemicals from levels seen in 2008 could make this a “decent” year for U. S. farmers despite lower crop prices, an analyst with Rabobank America said on Feb. 26. Farmers’ profits will not match 2008 levels, when grain prices hit record highs, but as these prices have fallen
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Lions Eye Bank Of Manitoba And Northwest Ontario

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There are currently 115 people in the region waiting anxiously for transplants. – LAURIE HOWELLS It’s a discussion that always takes place at a terrible time, so a Winnipeg nurse wants families in both city and country to talk about it now. The topic is actually a wonderful one – giving sight to people –
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The Jacksons – for Feb. 5, 2009

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Andrew Jackson cranked the steering wheel to the right and skidded his pickup truck onto the icy yard of the service station in the middle of town, just managing to miss the gas pump on his way by. “I really need to remember to slow down in this weather,” he thought, as he put the
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4-H grant program to fund urban outreach

The Canadian 4-H Council has put up a new program which it expects to help fund new clubs in both urban and rural areas across Canada, and to help expand existing clubs. The RBC 4-H Rural-Urban Youth Outreach Program, announced Jan. 7, is to be available to “anyone who would like to join 4-H” and
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Credit flowing to Canuck farmers

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“We’re not seeing a host of people lining up at the door because the bank has kicked them out. “ – LYNDON CARLSON Credit will continue to flow to Canadian farmers despi te a global credit crunch that has decimated stock markets and triggered a global recession, says Lyndon Carlson, Farm Credit Canada’s senior vice-president

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