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FEATURE-Brazil's food inflation: don't blame it all on the weather
ReutersBy Caroline Stauffer and Silvio Cascione SALTO, Brazil, May 3 (Reuters) - Brazil, an up-and-coming agricultural superpower with abundant fertile land, is struggling to provide consistently affordable food for its population. To understand how,...Tags: Consumers, Conservation, Labor Legislation, Agriculture, Economy, Business and Finance
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Brazil's food inflation: don't blame it all on the weather
ReutersSALTO, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil, an up-and-coming agricultural superpower with abundant fertile land, is struggling to provide consistently affordable food for its population. To understand how, consider the tomato. Prices of the red fruit shot up...Tags: Consumers, Conservation, Labor Legislation, Agriculture, Economy, Business and Finance
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Community Announcements for May 9
Upcoming Public Government Meetings - Lincoln County Board of Education: 6:30 p.m. May 9 at the Board of Education office - Lincoln County Public Library Board: 12 p.m. May 13 at the Lincoln County Public Library - Lincoln County Fire Protection...
Tags: Teachers, Teaching and Learning, Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease, Ceremonies, Radio
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Strawberries finally ripening in Triad
Winston-Salem Journal, N.C.Cool weather is resulting in one of the later strawberry crops in recent memory. Many Triad farms have only started selling berries in the past week. Strawberries hate hot weather, but they need at least moderately warm temperatures to bloom and ripen...Tags: Strawberries, Mother's Day
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Where 'green' began
MONTELLO, Wis. — When walking in the footsteps of greatness, it is of equal importance to follow where they lead and to discover where they began. In celebration of the life of the fervent conservationist John Muir in the year of his 175th...
Tags: Human Interest, Earth Day, Theodore Roosevelt, Yosemite National Park, Memorial Day
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Lower Macungie commissioner candidates square off
It was about an hour into a Lower Macungie Township commissioners candidates forum when a controversial land deal with developer David Jaindl came up. And when it did, incumbents on the board strongly defended how they negotiated an agreement with Jaindl...Tags: Arable Farming, Rentals, Elections, Homes, Politics
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Ag Calendar - April 16
4-H Annual Calf Sale — The 38th annual Franklin County (Pa.) 4-H Calf Sale will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Cumberland Valley Antique Engine Show Grounds in Chambersburg, Pa., at 7 p.m. Twenty-five lots of calves and embryo packages will be...Tags: Science and Technology, Trips and Vacations, Auction Service, E. coli Infection, Newburg
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Annual Farm Bureau barbecue helps support local students
Since 2001, Imperial County Farm Bureau has distributed more than $100,000 in scholarships to local students through their scholarship funds. The program has grown over the years, with last year’s scholarships totaling more than $15,000 drawn from...Tags: Financial Aid, Education, Awards and Prizes, Ryerson Incorporated
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On-farm grain storage
About forty-five years ago, my Dad decided to add three more steel storage bins to the one already standing in our farm yard. The dimensions of these Lindsay Husky Giants were 21 feet in diameter and 16 feet to the eaves, which would hardly make them...Tags: Investments
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Few options left for Sioux Falls horse farm
SIOUX FALLS (AP) - There's a place in the city where horses graze, where summer flies buzz in the corral and the ghosts of Sioux Falls past move among the urban sprawl. Out on the northeast corner of Sixth Street and Bahnson Avenue, Lois and Kelly...Tags: Tuberculosis
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"War Horse" goes from page to stage to Broward Center
Staff WriterMichael Morpurgo, author of one of the hottest literary properties ever, sat unrecognized as he had breakfast at the Riverside Hotel on Las Olas back in January 2012. The British author of "War Horse," a book that has been turned into a Steven Spielberg...Tags: United Kingdom, Broward Center for the Performing Arts, England, Painting, Steven Spielberg
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Seaweed Farming in the Connecticut Sound Could Help Grow the Economy
A 21st century riddle for you: What's slimy, green and brown, sometimes smelly and disgusting, but also a potentially wonderful anti-pollution tool that's good to eat and could turn into an economic pot of gold for Connecticut? The answer, of course, is...
Tags: Science and Technology, Long Island, Biology, Bridgeport (Fairfield, Connecticut), Long Island Sound
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