Word: farm
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...years, only negative reports on farm diseases, monstrous murders, floods and landslides have been coming from our village...
...enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have had for 10 years...
...made the decision to abandon the controversial source of funding in 2005, but chose to make the decision public in an article in the International Herald Tribute on Wednesday in order to make a stand as Congress debates an overhaul of its food aid program in a new farm bill this summer...
...Responding to these criticisms, the Bush administration has called for one quarter of the food aid budget be shifted from commodities to cash, but the fate of any change to the U.S. food aid program lies with Congress, which is currently debating a new farm bill. And it is unlikely that other charities in the cash-strapped world of NGOs will follow CARE's lead and boycott a flawed but important form of government funding. Save the Children USA, which along with CARE is a major recipient of monetized food aid, called food aid a "vital resource," but added that...
However, most of John’s grief would come from a much more widespread development: like many Midwest farmers in the 80s, John faced financial hardship and was forced to sell most of the farm and its equipment as larger companies took over most of America’s farming needs. A decade later, however, he was able to make a surprising comeback as a pioneer of organic farming with the assistance of the Community Support Agriculture, and transform the former family farm into a volunteer-driven community farm specializing in organic products...