Long before the internet reached the heartland, there was the DTN terminal, a modern-day Farmer's Almanac.

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He told me about a desperate message that a farmer left him the other day.

NEWYORKER: Testing, Testing

Other entries included team Eco's Climate Sim, which sees the player taking control of a farmer who has to balance his day-to-day energy and water needs with the growth of his crops and the environmental impact of his actions.

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The five-day Connemara sale brings breeders, farmer, buyers and horse enthusiasts from across the globe.

FORBES: Building Castles in Your Mind

Drinking "cold coffee, " a milky-sweet coffee drink popular in India, Mohita acknowledges that the beverage costs more than a farmer like Shailendra would earn on an average day.

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The Deputy Chief Minister of India's Maharashtra state Ajit Pawar has apologised for ridiculing a farmer who has been on a 55-day-long protest fast demanding water for his farm.

BBC: Ajit Pawar

The other day, he says, he was looking at a field that a farmer had enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program, or CRP.

NPR: Crop Cops Take to the Sky

"I think that our people have to be more real and creative - If government builds a new feeder road to a village, it makes it possible for a farmer to transport more of his produce to the big town to sell on market day, " argues Anthony Osei, deputy minister of finance.

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The farmer asks for an evening to sleep on it, and when the prospector returns the next day, he politely declines.

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"Evita, " which opens Christmas Day, is a screen opera about the life of Eva Peron, the daughter of a poor farmer who rose to power as the first lady of Argentina's President Juan Peron in the 1940s.

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