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A poultry farmer is one who concentrates on raising chickens, turkeys, ducks or geese, for either meat, egg or feather production, or commonly, all three. A person who raises a variety of vegetables for market may be called a truck farmer or market gardener. Dirt farmer is an American colloquial term for a practical farmer, or one who farms his ...
The Farmers' Alliance was an organized agrarian economic movement among American farmers that developed and flourished ca. 1875. The movement included several parallel but independent political organizations — the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union among the white farmers of the South, the National Farmers' Alliance among the white and black farmers of the Midwest and High ...
The line would cross diagonally across farms, which farmers believed would disrupt irrigation and aerial spraying and seeding, limit future land use, and reduce the value of the land. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Farmers believed that their way of life was being disrupted to "supply mainly urban population centers" with power. [ 25 ]
More farmers are expecting to take out a larger loan this year compared to last year, with 18% indicating that last month versus 15% in January 2024. The majority of farmers who anticipate ...
Many farmers argue that while they are asset rich - for example, in terms of their land and livestock - they are cash poor and the changes would mean they would have to sell up to be able to pay ...
Whether farmers' bottom lines agree very much remains to be seen, with the 2018/2019 standoff taking such a deep toll on US farmers that the first Trump administration was forced to step in with ...
In the Southern United States, the poor lands were held by poor white farmers, who generally owned no slaves. [10] The best lands were held by rich plantation owners and were operated primarily with slave labor. These farms grew their own food and also concentrated on a few "cash crops" that could be exported to meet the growing demand in ...
Farmers and meat producers across the U.S. can expect the new tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China and the retaliatory action from those countries to hurt their bottom lines by billions of dollars ...