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.
American policies focus on military aid to Colombia and free-trade talks in which the United States refuses to include farm subsidies or anti-dumping measures.
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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.
Add all this to central government's 500 or so quangos, its hospitals, prisons and farm regimes, and you have by far the largest and most comprehensive bureaucratic machine in the free world - one which in range and depth is not unlike that of the old soviet union.
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