The other big influence on the current literary crop is industry's reversion to motivational tools to persuade its workers to be more productive.

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In the immigrant heavy farming industry, crop production employment dropped by 15.6 percent in the first 4 years after LAWA was passed.

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But, it looks like with the help of the new crop of music file sharing sites the industry, after ten years of stomping their feet may be ready to accept the changing tide.

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The USDA again raised its estimate of how much of that crop will be consumed by the ethanol fuel industry, which enjoys extensive government incentives, to 4.9 billion bushels, up 100 million bushels from its December estimate.

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Sugar cane, which is planted in the summer, is a water-intensive crop and farmers may shift to other crops temporarily, industry executives said.

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The crop damage is dealing a further blow to Britain's farming industry, which is already reeling from a spate of recent livestock deaths due to the cold weather.

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But the public relations industry has warned against an over-reaction to the current crop of lurid headlines, stressing that nothing has been proved against the four Labour peers.

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