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...FARM AID Saddled with $16 million in IRS debt, country crooner Willie Nelson had to let the agency sell off his 44-acre Texas ranch in 1991. But the auction's winner, who paid $204,000, didn't send Nelson on the road again. He returned the home to the singer, praising Nelson's longtime advocacy of farmers...
...helicopters landed in a wheat field and dropped off a television crew, three photographers, three print reporters and three Iraqi government officials right into the middle of Operation Swarmer. Iraqi soldiers in newly painted humvees, green and red Iraqi flags stenciled on the tailgates, had just finished searching the farm populated by a half-dozen skinny cows and a woman kneading freshly risen dough and slapping it to the walls of a mud oven...
...Across the Midwest stores were selling out quickly of such essentials as water and basic foods, but also of generators, heating oil and chainsaws. A sales rep at a small farm shop at the edge of town said some 20 generators and 35 chain saws were sold Monday as the cleanup began. Hotels and motels were at capacity, as were Red Cross shelters as families sought refuge amid reports that power could be out to some 10,000 for as long as three days...
...course, before you can contain a sick farm, you have to know where it is. That's where the latest in geolocating devices comes in. Poultry veterinarians have been mapping U.S. commercial farms with handheld GPS tools (similar to the electronic navigational readers many people have in their cars) and entering the locations into large computerized databases for use in an emergency. They have even used the popular free software program Google Earth to fine-tune the positions of some chicken houses. That way, if the industry's testing program ever turns up evidence of H5N1 infection, officials will know...
Whatever measures the government imposes, commercial poultry farmers are about as prepared as they can be. "You can't stop bringing feed to the farm," says Doug Green, 53, who has four chicken houses in Princess Ann, Md. "You can't stop bringing fuel. There's a certain amount of interaction that has to go on." Controlling that amount is where the difference between sick flocks and healthy ones will...