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Real World Economics: Storm clouds gathering for a new farm crisis
Pioneer Press - Minnesota
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June 15, 2025
Edward Lotterman Once again, U.S. agriculture faces problems that will only be resolved with a painful shakeout. Debt levels are high. Crop prices are crawling down after historic highs. Interest rates are rising. Donald Trump’s globe-spanning...
Farmers optimistic for splendid & sweet strawberry season
WCAX - Vermont
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June 14, 2025
ESSEX JUNCTION, Vt. (WCAX) - Farmers say they were a little worried about the start of strawberry season, but now it looks like it’s going to be a good year. Officials at Paul Mazza’s Berry Farm are just kicking off the start of their berry...
Fish farm in Arizona desert raises questions about water use
News Tribune - Missouri
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June 15, 2025
DATELAND, Ariz. (AP) -- Storks scatter, white against blue water, as Dan Mohring's pickup truck rumbles down the dirt road. He's towing a trailer full of ground-up beef, chicken, fish and nutrient bits behind him, ready to be shot out of a cannon...
Digital farmer IDs, crop survey now used for benefit transfer
Financial Express
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With progress in farmers digital identity (ID) generation and digital crop survey (DCS), the government has started using these data for providing a hosts of services. These include direct cash transfer under PM Kisan, digital agricultural credit,...
Business leaders want B.C. to end rule they say hurts farmers — and makes us more reliant on imported food
CBC/Radio-Canada
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June 15, 2025
Business leaders in B.C. are calling on the province to end a rule that they say is hurting farmers and making British Columbians more reliant on imported food. In an opinion piece penned in the Vancouver Sun last week, Greater Vancouver Board of...
Karaikal agri institute plans to offer soil health testing to local farmers
The Hindu
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June 15, 2025
Dean A. Pouchepparadjou and Associate Professor K. Coumaravel with the advanced Microwave Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer (MP-AES) at PAJANCOA & RI, Karaikal. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement The Puducherry Agricultural College and Research...
82,150 Nasarawa farmers receive tree seedlings
Punch
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June 15, 2025
A Non-Governmental Organisation, One Acre Fund, Nigeria, has commenced the distribution of over 2.3 million Albizia Lebbeck and Moringa tree seedlings to no fewer than 82,150 smallholder farmers in Nasarawa State. Speaking at the unveiling of the...
The New Farmers
Utne Reader
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Spring is the time of year when Deena Miller, owner and operator of Sweet Roots Farm in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, thinks of quitting. Her body hurts, money is tight, and just enough of her organic, love-sown seeds have sprouted from the...
Delivering improved support for farmers
Newton County Times - Arkansas
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By US SEN. JOHN BOOZMAN Rural communities in Arkansas and across our country have been facing a bleak picture for years. The problems created by declining populations and aging infrastructure were recently compounded by crushing inflation and...
Farmers start receiving tractors under wheat support programme
Business Recorder
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June 14, 2025
LAHORE: The Punjab government has started distributing green tractors among farmers under its wheat support programme to encourage wheat cultivation across the province. A total of 1,000 tractors are being handed over through a transparent...
Column: Delivering improved support for farmers
El Dorado News-Times - Arkansas
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June 15, 2025
Rural communities in Arkansas and across our country have been facing a bleak picture for years. The problems created by declining populations and aging infrastructure were recently compounded by crushing inflation and other challenges that have...
North Region: IRAD donates 10 tons of farm inputs to farmers in Bibémi,...
The Guardian Post
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The donation was spearheaded by IRAD’s Director General, Dr Noé Woin. It was done on June 2, 2025, in Bibémi, with eight tons donated, and on June 5, in Rey-Bouba, with two tons donated. A grand ceremony was held at the Municipal Esplanade of...
Feature: Vietnam's lychee farmers find prosperity in growing trade with China
Xinhua News Agency
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BAC GIANG, Vietnam, June 15 (Xinhua) -- From early morning, a steady stream of container trucks winds along the narrow road leading into Phuc Hoa commune, an early-ripening lychee hub in Vietnam's northern province of Bac Giang. The trucks, loaded...
Republicans in Congress urge Trump to target criminals, not farmworkers, as ICE arrests increase
The Spokesman-Review - Washington State
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WASHINGTON – Amid a recent surge in arrests of immigrants allegedly living in the country illegally, some raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement have drawn quiet concern from Republicans in Congress who largely back President Donald...
Clarkson's Farm fans hope for one big change to happen in season five
Gloucestershire Live
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June 15, 2025
Fans of the hit streaming show Clarkson's Farm are sharing their hopes for season five. The Jeremy Clarkson-fronted programme has delighted fans with its four seasons so far, and viewers are wanting even more from the familiar faces seen on the...
Wastewater discharge halts Mahurangi oyster harvesting
RNZ
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June 15, 2025
Oyster farmers depend on the Mahurangi Harbour water quality for their livelihood. Photo: Supplied / Auckland Council Oyster farmers north of Auckland are still not harvesting, due to pollution, after this week's rain caused another sewage...
Southern Thailand Begins Durian Harvest With Expected 14.5% Production Increase
Produce Report
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According to Thai media reports, the large-scale clearing of coffee, rubber, mangosteen, rambutan and longan plantings for durian cultivation in 2019 is expected to result in a 14.5% increase in durian production in southern Thailand this year,...
It's a gourd life: Tamsui farmer reclaims 'heaviest pumpkin' title
Focus Taiwan
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June 15, 2025
New Taipei, June 15 (CNA) A gourd farmer from New Taipei's Tamsui District on Saturday took back his title as the grower of the heaviest pumpkin at Taiwan's 2025 National Giant Pumpkins Championships. Lin Chien-hsun (林建訓) won the "weight" category...
Rice prices Japan’s issue, on and off the farm
Gulf Today
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June 15, 2025
All is calm at Satoshi Yamazaki’s rice farm, with its freshly planted rows of vivid-green seedlings, but a row over the cost of the staple in Japan is threatening to deal the government a blow at the ballot box. Shortages of the grain caused by a...
£13.6m fund to turn surplus farm food into meals for struggling families
The Scottish Farmer
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Twelve food redistribution charities have received grants to deliver an estimated 19,000 tonnes of surplus food, much of it straight from farms, to food banks, community kitchens and similar organisations. The funding will help expand operations,...