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This is not always easy to do. In his moments of lucidity, Bennett's king embodies the "Farmer George" image. Plainspoken, fair and with a sense of humor (he calls the Queen "Mrs. King"), George III is nonetheless indisputably in charge. "I am the verb, sir, not the object," he tells a subject. But following the descent into madness, Hawthorne must spew the random gibberings of a man who has lost all control...
...Small farmers in the United States are in a seemingly irreversible decline. With each farmer who is bought out or squeezed out, "big farming" grows stronger and is better equipped to trample the next one. Of the three groups discussed here, only this one suffers the disadvantage of such a powerful, direct adversary. The dream of the Homestead Act of 1899 has almost disappeared; keeping up with prices fixed by the massive capital buying power of farming conglomerates has become impossible for the family farm...
agriculture............................$20,000 (per farmer...
...itself for the Great Bill. While cost estimates of cleaning up the deluge are starting to pour in like river water through a levee of sandbags, flood victims are wondering how the impressive damage estimates and aid packages relate to them and their losses. Complains Allen Seeburger, an uninsured farmer in St. Charles County, Missouri, who lost his corn and wheat harvest to the flood: "It takes $100 of taxpayers' money to get a dollar where it's needed...
...flood-ravaged Midwest, in St. Charles County, Missouri, the latest disaster victims are applying for assistance. Farmer Marie Oldenberg, 74, spent an afternoon in a local high school filling out government forms. She and her husband were hoping to earn money for retirement this year, but the flood destroyed their entire crop of corn, beans and wheat. "The government forms asked lots of questions -- what our income was, if we had insurance and how much money we had in the bank," says Oldenberg, who is not optimistic about getting her losses covered. "Maybe at least we'll get reimbursed...