That is possible but no easy task for a farmer like Peter McKilligan whose cattle are bought from Shetland to Stranraer.
Same goes for a farmer who wants to buy bags of fertilizer.
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At the moment, the use of hybrid seeds produced from inbred strains means that it is pointless for a farmer to replant any seeds from his harvest.
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"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.
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.
For a soybean farmer a 12-month forward market is quite adequate to tell him how many acres to plant.
For example, a farmer here in Iowa who's worried about the price of corn could buy a derivative that increases in value when the price of corn falls, so regardless of what happens with his crop, he has a chance to break even.
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Fold your nice clothes away in the closet and become a potato farmer or something for a few years.
To an African government official trying to complete a paved road to an airport or a struggling farmer in need for a loan to expand his overseas coffee sales, Chinese assistance is probably a godsend.
Lily, a partying socialite in Islamabad, surprises herself when she falls for Murad, a gentleman-farmer whose overwhelming sense of purpose captures her heart.
Hamidullah played with his wisp of facial hair as he told of how his family has collected letters from district officials vouching for his identity as a farmer and not a Taliban fighter.
The BBC's Mohammed Allie in Cape Town says Nofemela was sentenced to death in 1987 for the murder of a farmer at a time when capital punishment was still on the statute books.
However, in one case the judges ordered a subsidiary, Shell Nigeria, to compensate a farmer for breach of duty of care by making it too easy for saboteurs to open an oil well head that leaked on to his land.
There's never a whiff of authenticity, except maybe when Harry Dean Stanton appears for a cruelly brief bit part as a cranky local farmer.
Kenneth Walker, a 91-year-old retired dairy farmer and a justice for about 50 years, has simply put up his marrying fees.
The next morning, even as simple a taste as strawberries grown by a local farmer sets a new strawberry standard for me.
While Article I of the Constitution limits Congress to regulating interstate commerce, the court has taken a broad view of those powers, up to and including prohibiting a farmer from growing wheat for his own consumption because it might interfere with a national price-support program.
But for a cash-strapped Arkansas farmer moving hogs in a pickup, pricey petrol hurts.
Occasionally, we slowed down for school zones and a country farmer to let his cows pass before us.
"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 of the reasons that the Reynolds women were so attracted to vanilla is that a single producing vanilla vine can support an entire Haitian family financially for a year, much as a cow might help a poor farmer subsist.
For every sapling GPFA delivers to a farmer, she (or he) must pay the organization back with a cutting once the tree is strong and healthy enough to produce cuttings.
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This power has been read widely enough that a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption came under Congressional power because wheat itself is traded across state lines, even if his specific wheat was not.
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There was a New Deal case of a farmer growing wheat for his own consumption: the Feds claimed the right to restrict this as his non-consumption, as a result of growing his own, of out of state wheat meant that this was inter-state commerce.
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As a cattle farmer in a meat-loving region where demand for prime beef is rising, she should know.
Recently, for example, I was in Nicaragua visiting a new client, a 700-member farmer cooperative that produces coffee for export and corn for domestic consumption The cooperative sells 300 tons of corn annually to its main buyer, the World Food Programme which is used to produce 6.7 million school lunches a year or one meal per day for 44, 000 children for an entire school year.
"To some people the 24- to 36-hour ordeal of smoking a 20-pound pork shoulder seems a little crazy, " says Erik Leander, a home chef who buys whole hogs from an organic farmer and has kept a smoking diary for five years.
While it's true that the National Ecosystem Assessment doesn't provide a mechanism for transferring the costs of environmental degradation onto the farmer or developer who wants to plough up a wood or concrete over a floodplain, the scientists who compiled the report say decisions about how to implement their findings should be left to legislators.
He's a rice farmer, and the price he is paid for his crop simply cannot support a family.
Mr White overcame the ban by asking the rural affairs department for a walking licence and registering as a farmer.
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