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More pain for US farmers as government shutdown halts payments

ustowner-012 2025-10-02 16:03

Summary WASHINGTON, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The U.S. federal government shutdown that began Wednesday will halt some payments to farmers and delay acce[……] ....

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Farmers are under threat, but not from foreign land-buyers

ustowner-012 2023-08-07 03:29

Members of Congress, presidential candidates and state legislatures have been raising the alarm about Chinese and other foreign investment in American[……] ....

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Trump says he’ll cancel every Biden policy ‘brutalizing our farmers’ within hours, if elected

ustowner-012 2023-07-08 03:39

Former President Trump said Friday that he would cancel every Biden administration policy that he described as “brutalizing our farmers” within hours[……] ....

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Slow start to New York’s legal pot market leaves farmers holding the bag

ustowner-012 2023-06-05 03:17

Seth Jacobs has about 100 bins packed with marijuana flower sitting in storage at his upstate New York farm. And that’s a problem. There aren’t eno[……] ....

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Black farmers call for justice from the USDA

ustowner-011 2023-02-13 04:48

Nearly two decades ago a class action lawsuit led by Black farmers against the U.S. Department of Agriculture was settled. Then there was a class acti[……] ....

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Farmers face a higher risk of suicide. The Texas
Agriculture Department wants $500,000 a year to change that.

ustowner-011 2023-01-12 05:00

The department’s helpline is less than a year old. But advocates hope state lawmakers fully fund it as farmers and ranchers continue to face hard econ[……] ....

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Farmers slam Biden over latest eco regulation targeting businesses: ‘Federal overreach’

ustowner-011 2023-01-04 06:05

Organizations representing American farmers slammed a recent Biden administration regulation repeals a Trump-era action regarding how natural water so[……] ....

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Farmer predicts worse food shortages, higher prices in 2023 amid inflation, drought, interests rate hikes

ustowner-011 2022-12-29 05:16

Drought, supply chain shortages and the rising cost of doing business led to a difficult 2022 for American farmers, but 2023 could be even worse, a fo[……] ....

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