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Farm Aid and Family Dairy Farmers Call for Immediate Action to Resolve Ongoing Dairy Crisis
Farm Aid - Jun 25, 2010
Farm Aid joined family farmers from across the country today in Madison, Wisc., at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) joint public workshop examining competition in the dairy industry. The workshop comes 18 months into an unprecedented crisis for dairy farmers. Low prices and high production costs, combined with a tightening credit market, have pushed thousands of family farmers out of business.
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It Takes a Community to Sustain a Local Farm
Grist Magazine - Jan 5, 2010
These days it seems the most popular person to be in the food system is the "local farmer". But as anyone who has ever raised grain or livestock can tell you, the farmer is not the only person in the chain of players from her farm to your fork. In addition to producers, your food chain includes processors, distributors or transporters, and retailers.
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Organic Farming, Answer to Farmers' Suicides?
Inter Press Service - Jul 19, 2006
Small cultivators in a sub-Himalayan state are demonstrating that the way forward to sustainable agriculture may lie in sticking to traditional methods.
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Peasants Say No to ?Selling' Traditional Knowledge
Inter Press Service - Mar 24, 2006
...the central, strategic battle will be waged around seeds, pitting peasant farmers who have produced and improved seeds for 10,000 years, thus expanding their genetic diversity, against the transnational corporations that want to control the entire agricultural chain from production to marketing.
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