The letter said that for some farmers it has been a "harrowing experience" that has left some drained "not just financially but emotionally too".
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The government announced that financial assistance will be made available for some farmers, and in the meantime, the fee for animal disposal has been waivered.
But it is much worse news for some individual farmers, since so many were only just scratching a living anyway.
For some reason farmers evoke sympathy in ways that techies do not.
For example, the federal government pays some farmers for crops they haven't grown in decades.
Increased protection of natural fisheries is leading to better returns for at least some fish farmers, who now account for half the world's aquatic harvest.
But for some of the farmers (and all of their supporters) the fight is not just about any land, it is about the promised land.
The domestic offsets do represent the opportunity for some real income by farmers.
Competition between political parties at elections in offering ever-bigger subsidies has driven down the price of electricity to absurd levels (it is free for farmers in some states).
Norte Energia is responsible for paying for the property that will be flooded, and either building or finding a new and similar property for the displaced homeowners, some of them farmers who have farmed cocoa plantations in the area for generations.
But this year, for once, some things are starting to go right for the farmers.
The two decided to take a shot at designing a custom web application for farmers based on some of the feedback that they received from the community.
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In this case, we met some farmers who for years had struggled to survive, worked hard just to put food on the table for their families by growing corn and beans.
In 2010, the Center for Food Safety and some organic farmers who stood to gain by attacking conventional and GM crops convinced a court on procedural grounds there was no finding of environmental or health dangers to void the five-year-old approval of transgenic sugar beet seeds.
The settlement includes a proviso allowing some farmers to argue for bigger damage payments before an independent arbitrator.
Thrapston livestock market caters for farmers across the region with some coming from Melton Mowbray, Colchester and Thame.
Some farmers seem to be looking for new opportunities to manage their risk.
The plan noted, for example, that payments to farmers in some countries - a reference primarily to the European Union's subsidies - can have distorting effects on developing countries.
And for those who can't bring in a sellable crop at all, there's always that old standby: federal emergency assistance for farmers who lose their crops to some unkindness of nature.
The fact, for example, that some 70 percent of all farmers in the world are poor, working small holdings (a few acres per farm) additionally invites consideration of all those farmer dwellings.
Residents have condemned the local government's failure to account for the carcasses, which some believe have been dumped by farmers upstream.
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Still, Program Director Andrew Gunther, believes it is possible for them to work with farmers and groups to share some of their data that would benefit the greater good.
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After their cotton had been ginned, farmers would keep some of the seed for next year's planting, plow some into the ground as fertilizer, and use the rest to feed their cows.
The result has been that some farmers have tried to return their GM seed for more traditional seed.
Some farmers allege they are being denied food aid for political reasons.
He said greater transparency "could only be a good thing", with contracts currently meaning some farmers receive up to 5p per litre less for their milk than others, even when dealing with the same buyer.
India's state-run cold storage system is shambolic, so where is the guarantee that some 65m tonnes of food grains procured from farmers for distribution for the scheme - up from 55m tonnes presently - will not rot before reaching the beneficiary?
Some farmers argue that this proves they were not responsible for the missing water in the first place.
Some farmers are waiting, holding onto their grain, hoping for prices to go back up.
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