The committee approved proposals to allow a million and a half undocumented farm workers to stay in the country and get on a path to citizenship.
The vast tracts of derelict farmland and high food prices convinced him to stay and farm pigs.
Prices for feed have skyrocketed, and Glavin said she doesn't know how much longer she can afford to keep her farm if the prices stay high and the drought continues.
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He will stay on a farm and visit a "marae" - a sacred Maori tribal home.
Even when the government buys their output at above market prices, as it often does, that premium does not provide enough incentive to stay on the farm.
Today, the Reinsch cottonseed has much better things to do than stay on the farm, and thanks to the farmers' marketing efforts, it is much too valuable to use as animal feed.
And there may now be a greater temptation to stay on the farm because of an unusually rapid growth of rural incomes in recent months, caused by rising food prices.
With a milk crisis looming today, the complaint is not that government should stay out of the farm business.
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This site, which partners with working farms and ranches in the US, offers tips on what travellers should expect out of a stay down on the farm.
Livestock fairs and markets have been closed, hunting of deer, foxes and hares banned, postal workers ordered to leave mail at farm gates and ramblers warned to stay off fields.
At some point during that strange summer of hushed conversations that stopped as soon as I entered the room, the prospect was raised that I might like to stay at a horse farm in Cornwall, on England's southwest coast.
Mexican farm laborers then had three choices: stay in Mexico, immigrate permanently through family reunification, or immigrate without authorization.
' Majda says during my two-day stay with her at Majdac Farm.
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Eason, who was trained as a pediatric nurse, was a stay-at-home mom until a bookkeeper at the trout farm left suddenly in 1985 and she was pressed into service.
At State Farm, a car insurer, it has helped to persuade the company's agents to stay for an average of 13 years, double the industry norm.
Because the purchase of food cannot be left to the free market, lest some be left out, there are countless examples of government involvement ranging from farm subsidies for growing the food to welfare programs designed to help people get the food they need to stay alive.
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During her stay, she keeps slipping back, at the merest prompting, into recollections of her time at the farm.
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