John Foster, who runs a free-range egg farm at Moreleigh near Totnes, said he had been waiting for 15 potholes to be fixed on the road to his farm.
Arthur X-Man, who quit his job on a free-range chicken farm in eastern England to join the movement, joked that he and other occupiers felt a little like refugees, and said they were searching for a new place to Occupy.
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Meanwhile, the prime minister is keeping his head down: to be caught in the crossfire between the free-trade Americans and his doughty farm-workers, and between the European Commission and France's game-shooters, is to risk being wounded by political pellets.
The omnibus trade act also extended duty-free access for farm (and now textile) exports from the Andean countries (except Venezuela), seen as alternatives to illegal drug production.
McEVERS: The company partnered with food giant Cargill--recently bought the Brauer farm to produce antibiotic-free pork.
The Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead rejected an application in July 2010 for 17 free-standing or static caravans at Five Oaks Farm in Shurlock Road.
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He wants farm spending split in two, into an agricultural bill and one explicitly about welfare, to expose the unholy alliance between farm-state Republicans and free-spending Democrats.
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In 1999 he established the Kuan-Shu Educational Foundation, which runs an organic rice farm, restores local wetlands and operates a free tutoring program for low-income students.
That alone will free 20% of the budget, which can be rechanneled to farm-to-market roads, dams, irrigation canals, post-harvest facilities, and research and development.
While the U.S. government has spent millions in farm subsidies on the Fanjuls, the Cuban expats allegedly tried to torpedo the CAFCA free-trade agreement in the mid-2000s because it was expected to threaten their bottom line.
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This year the smorgasbord from Iowa to California groaned under all the offerings: flattening the tax structure, abolishing free-trade agreements, limiting the terms of lawmakers, reinventing welfare or health care or public housing or farm subsidies, spending more on defense, cutting this agency or that, restricting immigration.
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