Limerick :: Ireland
| 2 days ago
Separate protests over Budget cuts Saturday, 29 November 2008 09:38 Farmers and teachers groups are staging separate protests against Budget cuts today. The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers Association will demonstrate outside a meeting of Fianna Fáil...
Tags: farmers, protest, cuts, budget cuts, separate protest
Washington :: DC :: USA
| 7 days ago
A sports team owner, a financial firm executive and residents of Hong Kong and Saudi Arabia were among 2,702 millionaire recipients of farm payments from 2003 to 2006 — and it's not even clear they were legitimate farmers, congressional investigators...
Tags: farmers, farm subsidies
Manila :: Philippines
| 8 days ago
More than 6.7 million metric tons (MMT) of palay have been harvested from half the 2.5 million hectares planted to the crop nationwide for the wet or main crop, the chief of the Ginintuang Masaganang Ani (GMA) rice program of the Department of Agriculture...
Tags: agriculture, crop, farmers
Baton Rouge :: LA :: USA
| 8 days ago
Rising wheat prices in 2007 turned Louisiana into a mini-breadbasket. Producers planted about 400,000 acres of wheat last fall, the second most in the state's history. But the price of wheat has dropped drastically since touching $12 a bushel earlier...
Tags: farmers, crop, plant, Louisiana
Dyersville :: IA :: USA
| 10 days ago
Joe Goebel doesn't need to plead with bank tellers to take his check. "Can't ask them to cash what I don't got," he said. Instead, the Guttenberg farmer plans to seek a loan extension. After all, he needs something to tide him over as he waits to be paid...
Tags: plant, farmers, Dyersville
Mumbai :: India
| 10 days ago
A team of researchers, led by Jerome Bernier from the University of Alberta, found a group of genes in rice that enables a yield of up to 100 per cent more in severe drought conditions. The discovery marks the first time this group of genes in rice has...
Tags: farmers, India
Sacramento :: CA :: USA
| 25 days ago
If the governor's plan passes, Los Angeles would have one of the highest sales tax rates in the nation at 10.25 percent. Schwarzenegger also proposed slashing state spending by another $4.5 billion for the current fiscal year, including $2.5 billion from...
Tags: schwarzenegger, budget, california, bill, cuts, arnold, Arnold Schwarzenegger, sales tax, farmers, tax increase, tax hike, budget deficit, California State University
Trinidad :: Bolivia
| 26 days ago
Placing the blame squarely at the feet of Government for high food prices, importers of fresh fruits and vegetables want Government to withdraw a 40 per cent import duty fee to bring down prices. "Farmers are unable to meet the needs of the country and...
Tags: farmers, fruit, food
Yangon :: Myanmar
| 27 days ago
There is an acute lack of clean water and growing fears of food shortages, while thousands remain living in makeshift shelters. And on top of that, there are increasing reports of human rights abuses. "The Burmese military's obsession with control is...
Tags: cyclone, farmers, food shortage, human rights, recovery, coast, after, long, crop, aid
Auckland :: New Zealand
| 27 days ago
The Federated Farmers lobby caught the attention of several political parties by releasing its own political "wishlist' in Wellington, only to have the politicians turn around and use the manifesto to bash their opponents. Federation president Don Nicolson...
Tags: change, farmers, food, economy, obama, poverty, need, mccain, climate change, politics
