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...razor-sharp thorns that make the bushes nearly impossible to climb over and are strong enough to stop a speeding jeep. P.T. plants grow naturally in the hills of East Tennessee, sometimes reaching a height of 20 ft., and have long been used by local farmers to protect livestock. Now Barrier Concepts, an Oak Ridge, Tenn., firm, is selling the bushes to such security-minded customers as the CIA, the Secret Service and the military. The Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, N.C., bought 32,000 of the bushes to encircle ammunition depots, fuel bunkers and runways...
...regulate the clearing of land and the installation and inspection of septic tanks. Farmers are now required to fence cattle away from streams. Zoning has become more stringent for construction in a critical watershed area: a single-family house requires at least two acres of land. The number of livestock and poultry per acre is also controlled...
Basic provisions of the bill would provide payments to drought-stricken farmers equal to 65 percent of their lost earnings above 35 percent of anticipated harvest. They also would expand and streamline government feed programs for dairy and livestock producers...
...Already commodity prices have soared. Corn and soybeans are at a two-year high. Livestock, with nowhere to graze and no water to drink, are being sent to slaughter early. The sudden glut of meat on the market has caused hog prices to fall 10% in the past three weeks and feeder-cattle prices to plunge 9% in five weeks; even so, consumers will soon face higher food costs...
...quickly than any hard-riding band of desperadoes on horseback ever could. A pair of California ranch hands who were arrested for rustling two months ago -- Buddy Goodman, 46, and Benton Demaree, 38 -- allegedly used trailers to ship 45 head of cattle from an area southwest of Fresno to livestock auctions nearly 100 miles miles away in San Luis Obispo and Kern counties. Only when a state cattle-brand inspector spotted a telltale marker hidden within a steer's ear were the suspected thieves nabbed...