It is now, she says, much more dangerous to be a white farmer in South Africa than in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where political violence and government policy has driven many white farmers off their land.
But that doesn't mean you have to be a hands-on farmer like Brumback.
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Now, if only we could convince every other channel to distribute its content over the web without arcane restrictions, we'd be happier than Gallagher at a farmer's market.
"So I had the idea to... set up an experiment to look at how these novel grasses could be good for not only production from a farmer's perspective but also reducing run-off, " he told BBC News.
One problem with eradication operations such as the one in Uruzgan is that they tend to set up confrontations between armed men and poor farmers: the only American a farmer ever meets might be the one who is destroying his harvest, rather than someone who is building a school or a clinic.
You'll be able to tuck in a few groceries from the farmer's market in there, but a trip to IKEA will likely end up with you opting for delivery instead.
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His father was a Presbyterian farmer who allowed his pasture to be used for prayer meetings.
I, for one, am glad they failed, since for all of the soft glow we have in this country around our notion of the family farmer, farming was and can still be a brutal, dawn to dusk endeavor that never really rewards the work people put into it.
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Using the slogan "Send a Farmer to Congress, " Salazar promised to be a strong voice in Congress for rural Colorado.
In the annals of unwarranted federal criminal prosecutions, it would be tough to find a more outrageous case than that of Idaho farmer Cory King, who stands convicted of felony violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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"If the seawater reaches our shrimp farms, the shrimp will escape and the whole year's work will be ruined, " said Nazrul Islam, a 30-year-old farmer.
But once a firm sold a farmer the seeds of an apomictic crop, it would be difficult to stop him from saving seeds and growing them in future years.
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Once, long ago, this farmer worked his fingers to the bone so his son could learn to be a clerk at the castle.
Every PAC coffee farmer now meets Fair Trade Certified standards, allowing their product to be sold at a premium and quite possibly end up in the bottom of your cup of specialty coffee.
Representatives from the Country Land and Business Association, the Farming union of Wales and the National Farmer's Union Cymru stressed the importance of communication if the scheme is to be a success.
If you ask a farmer in America he or she will say this land is mine, it will allways be the land of my family.
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Cain is a farmer of some sort, and Abel is a shepherd (remember this part, it will be important later).
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