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    Daryl Minton, 45, throws chicken feed into a yard where the chickens roam at the Triple J Farm in Windsor, N.Y. Minton lives and works on the farm his grandfather, James Minton, bought it a decade ago. Between lending discrimination and rising costs, man
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    'Make Farmers Black Again': African Americans Fight Discrimination To Own Farmland

    Aug 25, 2020
    There is a growing movement of young farmers led by people of color in the Northeast but barriers to accessing funding and land remain. The family behind Triple J Farm in Windsor, N.Y., knows this.
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    Arizona Housing Growth Tees Up Opportunity For Water Investors

    Jun 10, 2020

    Central Arizona has been booming -- more people, more houses, more need for water.

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    Western Colorado Water Purchases Stir Up Worries About The Future Of Farming

    Jun 09, 2020

    For five years, Zay Lopez tended vegetables, hayfields and cornfields, chickens, and a small flock of sheep here on the

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    Goats and Soda
    Liege Camila Pistore Veras, Rafael Duckur, and Joana Luiza Mendes (left to right) load boxes of produce into a truck at a farm outside of Sao Paulo, Brazil. This produce, and more, will be distributed in favelas, poor urban neighborhoods where residents
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    PHOTOS: Brazilian Farmers Hatch A Plan To Send Healthy Food To The Favelas

    May 24, 2020
    A stay-at-home order has meant a loss of income for many of the working poor — and the fear that they won't be able to feed their families. Then a group of organic farmers had an idea.
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    The Coronavirus Crisis
    Full Belly Farm, a 450-acre, organic farm, in California's Capay Valley northwest of Sacramento, is busier than ever trying to ramp up production to meet soaring demand.
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    As Food Supply Chain Breaks Down, Farm-To-Door CSAs Take Off

    May 10, 2020
    Community Supported Agriculture programs that sell a weekly box of produce directly to consumers are popular amid concerns about grocery shopping during the pandemic.
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    National
    Elk graze in Skagit Valley, an area north of Seattle, Wash., populated for centuries by Native Americans and, more recently, by farmers.
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    Elk Raise Tensions Between Tribes And Farmers In Washington's Skagit Valley

    Jan 18, 2020
    In Washington state's Skagit Valley, a conflict is unfolding between Native Americans and farmers. Elk are making a comeback there. Local tribes are thrilled, but the agriculture industry is not.
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    Economy
    U.S. farmers have suffered a one-two punch of bad weather, which makes it hard to grow crops, and tariffs, that make it hard to sell what they grow.
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    How Hard Are Tariffs Hitting The Economy? It Depends On Who You Ask

    Dec 06, 2019
    The U.S. economy is still growing, but trade tensions have taken a toll — especially on factories and farms. The trade war's impact on the overall economy is being debated.
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    Goats and Soda
    Noah Nasiali-Kadima, foreground, takes a selfie with members of the Africa Farmers Group during a tour of a member's farm in Machakos County, Kenya.
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    How 75,000 Abandoned Cabbages Inspired A Huge Online Forum For Farmers In Africa

    Nov 01, 2019
    In Kenya, a tech worker-turned-farmer almost threw in the trowel. Now, he helps other farmers share tips and support.
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    The Salt
    Kansas Farmer Luke Ulrich faces long hours and low pay in part because of Trump's trade policies, but he still backs Trump.
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    Farmers Sticking By Trump Even As Trade Wars Bite

    Oct 10, 2019
    Trump's trade wars and ethanol policy hurt farmers, but polls show his support among them remains strong, and may be growing as the impeachment query moves forward.
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    The Salt
    A worker at a bog owned by Massachusetts-based Decas Cranberry Products, Inc., removes vines from a batch of just-harvested berries.
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    How The Trade War Crushed A Growing Chinese Market For U.S. Cranberries

    Oct 06, 2019
    The U.S. has spent millions to get China to embrace the unknown fruit — and it did. Now, tariffs have driven China to buy its cranberries from other countries, leaving U.S. farmers in the lurch.
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    World
    In the Netherlands, farmers block a major highway with their tractors on Tuesday during a national protest. Farmers say their livestock and operations are being unfairly blamed for greenhouse gas emissions.
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    Tractor Trails Of Protesting Dutch Farmers Snarl Traffic for Hundreds Of Miles

    Oct 01, 2019
    Farmers say their livestock and operations are being unfairly blamed for greenhouse gas emissions. They descended on The Hague, causing what's been called the country's worst morning rush hour.
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    Business
    Chinese shipping containers are stored at the Port of Los Angeles in Long Beach, Calif. Americans, in bigger numbers than ever, like trade. But they also believe China doesn't play fair in trade.
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    In Trump's Trade War, Americans Will Be Asked To Show Economic Patriotism

    May 20, 2019
    Americans, in bigger numbers than ever, like trade. But they also believe China doesn't play fair in trade.
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    The Salt
    A worker dumps a bucket of tomatoes into a trailer at DiMare Farms in Florida City, Fla., in 2013. The Trump administration is preparing to level a new tariff on fresh tomatoes imported from Mexico in response to complaints from Florida growers.
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    Food Fight: Trump Administration Levels Tariffs On Mexican Tomatoes

    May 07, 2019
    Under pressure from Florida lawmakers, the Trump administration is taking steps to protect domestic tomato growers from Mexican competition.
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    The Salt
    Nationwide, there are too few farmers to populate market stalls and too few customers filling their canvas bags with fresh produce at each market.
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    Why Are So Many Farmers Markets Failing? Because The Market Is Saturated

    Mar 17, 2019
    Farmers aren't producing enough to keep up with the number of smaller markets that keep popping up, often in close proximity to others. This results in fewer customers, unsold food and maybe closure.
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    Economy
    Garlic sits in bins before being processed at the processing plant.
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    In Garlic Capital, Tariffs And Immigration Crackdown Have Mixed Impacts

    Feb 20, 2019
    Gilroy, Calif., is known as the garlic capital of the world. Two Trump administration policies — one on trade, the other on immigration — are affecting the town in starkly different ways.
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    The Salt
    Brent Henderson harvests soybeans on his farm near Weona, Ark., in 2017. That crop showed symptoms of dicamba exposure. Henderson switched to Xtend soybeans the following year, he says, as "insurance" against future damage.
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    Is Fear Driving Sales Of Monsanto's Dicamba-Proof Soybeans?

    Feb 07, 2019
    Some farmers say they're buying a popular new soybean seed partly because they're afraid of crop damage from herbicide drift. A new lawsuit claims the seed maker is violating antitrust laws.
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    The Salt
    Apsara Bharati is watching over her field in Nepal, where she and her neighbors are using the system of rice intensification to plant seedlings.
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    Nepalese Rice Farmers Boost Yields By Sowing Fewer Plants And Cutting Water

    Jan 30, 2019
    As the climate gets drier, researchers are looking again at an alternative method to grow rice — a crop that feeds millions of people — that uses less water. But support for the technique is mixed.
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    Politics
    President Trump addresses the annual American Farm Bureau Federation convention in New Orleans on Monday.
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    In Speech To Struggling Farmers, President Trump Promotes Border Wall

    Jan 14, 2019
    President Trump addressed the Farm Bureau Federation on Monday, courting a constituency that was key to his 2016 election. He tried to reassure his audience that his trade policies will soon pay off.
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    Europe
    A wolf in its enclosure at the Hexentanzplatz zoo in Thale, northern Germany.
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    Wolves Are Back In Germany, But Not Always Welcome

    Dec 15, 2018
    Germany is seeing the return of wolf packs, and with them growing political tension over whether the animals pose too much of a threat.
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    The Salt
    At Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colo., Scott Dorsch pulls down a box of hops from the Yakima Valley in Washington, the state that grows the most hops in the nation. "We would buy more hops than what Colorado could produce," he says.
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    The Bitter Boom-And-Bust Tale Of Colorado's Bet On Local Beer Hops

    Dec 13, 2018
    Even with the backing of state-based beer giant Coors, small farmers just couldn't compete with the Pacific Northwest. And with more people choosing wine and spirits, some craft brewers are closing.
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    Business
    Robert Gruschow, president of Deshler Group, says the new trade deal lifts the uncertainty that has been hanging over the auto industry.
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    From The Front Lines Of NAFTA, More Relief Than Rejoicing

    Oct 08, 2018
    The new deal to replace NAFTA includes modernizations and improvements. But the biggest benefit, for many sectors, is simply that there is a deal — reducing the uncertainty of previous months.
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    The Salt
    Scenes of Sampath's oil palm grove, in rural Tamil Nadu, India.
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    Amid Palm Oil Boycott, India Wants To Produce More Of It

    Sep 21, 2018
    India is the world's biggest consumer of palm oil, a crop which threatens the country's water supply and is linked to deforestation. But the government faces little opposition to expand plantations.
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    Business
    The Big Iron Farm Show draws thousands of farmers and farm equipment makers to a fairground in West Fargo, N.D. For many this year, concerns about crop yields have been eclipsed by worries about President Trump's trade policies.
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    Farmers Hope For China Trade Deal, But For Now They Worry About Tariffs' Impact

    Sep 13, 2018
    At the Big Iron Farm Show in North Dakota, the usual concerns about crops have been heightened by another big worry: A trade war with China that's already driven soybean prices down sharply.
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    The Salt
    A new report suggests that when consumers buy sustainably-certified coffee, they have little way of knowing whether or how their purchase helps growers.
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    Do Sustainable Certifications For Coffee Really Help Coffee Growers?

    Sep 02, 2018
    A global development research organization study suggests that there's little data showing whether growers benefit from sustainably certifying their coffee because they are difficult to monitor.
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    The Salt
    The harvest is bad for German farmers this year as the country has experienced the hottest summer on record and months without rainfall.
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    German Farmers Struck By Drought Fear Further Damage From Climate Change

    Aug 31, 2018
    High temperatures and a severe drought have hit food production in Germany and left many farmers there wondering what they can do to survive climate change.
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