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France loosens rules on allowing farmers to shoot wolves
The French government said Monday it would authorise the shooting of wolves that attack livestock even outside protected enclosures, a…
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French farmers drive 350 tractors to Parliament to protest low incomes and EU trade deal
PARIS (AP) — French farmers steered some 350 tractors Tuesday over cobblestoned Paris avenues toward Parliament to protest low incomes and…
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French farmers force their way through Paris with tractors to protest free trade deal
PARIS (AP) — Farmers drove about a hundred tractors into Paris on Thursday morning to protest the European Union intention to move forward…
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French minister urges angry farmers to trust cow culls, vaccines
France's agriculture minister Monday defended planned mass cattle culls and vaccines to control an infectious bovine disease, after…
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Farmers block Mexico's Congress with tractors in protest against new national water law proposal
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Dozens of farmers drove their tractors in a caravan to Mexico City and blocked an entrance to Mexico’s Congress on…
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Transcript: MAGA Farmers Suddenly Shocked Trump Screwing Them So Badly
At the same time, Democrats are being mobilized in ways that I actually had not even seen in 2024. In Virginia specifically, there’s a…
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American Farmers Slam Trump’s “Betrayal” With Argentina Beef Deal
While the first part of Cruz’s warning falls into the same hyperbolic rhetoric that the GOP has been pushing about No Kings being an…
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“Band-Aid”: Soybean Farmers Warn Trump Has Screwed Them Beyond Saving
Even a government bailout won’t undo the damage that Donald Trump’s tariffs have wreaked on America’s soybean farmers. The president…
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Kenyan farmers use bees and sesame to keep away marauding elephants
TAITA TAVETA, Kenya (AP) — For farmers in the Taita hills in southern Kenya, elephants are a menace: they raid crops and will occasionally…
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Alan Dershowitz Yelled Out of Farmers Market for Being a Jerk
Alan Dershowitz was once again denied pierogies at a farmers market. After being turned away by the vendors of the Good Pierogi stand at…
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For Argentine farmers, Milei's free-market reforms fall short
Fruit producers in Argentina complain that the economic reforms undertaken by President Javier Milei have not gone far enough in helping…
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Epstein Lawyer Alan Dershowitz’s Latest Target: A Farmers Market
Alan Dershowitz has fought many battles over the course of his legal career. He has fought on behalf of O.J. Simpson, Jeffrey Epstein, and…
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China's 'new farmers' learn to livestream in rural revitalisation
Gao Chaorong knows what it takes to turn out good crops of sweet potatoes, peanuts and wheat, but tasty produce is no longer enough to…
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Should bioplastics be counted as compost? Debate pits farmers against manufacturers
Vernalis — Greg Pryor began composting yard and food waste for San Francisco in 1996, and today he oversees nine industrial-sized…
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Deal or no deal? Zimbabwe still divided over land 25 years after white farmers evicted
A quarter of a century after their land was seized during a chaotic land reform programme that made global headlines, a small group of…
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Trump Brazenly Admits His Immigration Crackdown Is Hurting Farmers
Donald Trump just admitted that his administration’s massive deportation efforts are causing chaos for farmers—but he doesn’t care. In a…
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Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More
But Erin Foster West, policy director at the National Young Farmers Coalition, said that programs intended to help commodity farmers have…
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Trump’s Lie About Dead “White Farmers” Just Got Even More Grotesque
As I argued recently, Trump’s “white genocide” imagery draws heavily on a kind of internationalized “great replacement theory” that’s…
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Argentina's farmers describe 'sea of water' after downpour hits harvest
By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Argentina's agricultural heartland has been lashed by heavy rains in recent days, leaving some…
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In America's 'salad bowl,' farmers invest in guest worker housing, hoping to stabilize workforce
In Monterey County, growers are building lodging for thousands of guest workers coming in on H-2A visas. Some advocates say it is an…
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Farmers in Iowa Are Caught in Trump’s Trade War
It was time for Beau Hanson to lay down his bets. Like other farmers in western Iowa, in early April Mr. Hanson was preparing for spring…
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Climate change takes spice from Indonesia clove farms
Colonial powers once sought to wipe out cloves grown by locals on the eastern Indonesian island of Ternate to safeguard their monopoly…
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Trump Sends Desperate Message to Farmers as Tariffs War Gets Worse
“He was in our country illegally, he’s from El Salvador, was born in El Salvador, and oh, the media forgot to mention, he is an MS-13 gang…
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Trump says farmers always in the middle of 'trade war'
President Trump said farmers are on the "front line" of a trade war with China, as his administration considers possible subsidies for…