Grain farmers replaced working animals with combines and planters, which demanded different homes, usually wide metal sheds.
The Murrows were Quaker abolitionists in slaveholding North Carolina, Republicans in Democratic territory, and grain farmers in tobacco country.
At the same time, the commodity boom is lifting the rural economy by fattening profits for U.S. grain farmers and exporters.
About 7, 000 cases have been filed by long-grain rice farmers seeking to recoup income they claim they lost as a result of the drop in market price for rice.
In 1960, Texas Grain Storage added a small fertilizer blend plant for farmers in the area and started selling fertilizer and grain-storage services for other farmers in Texas, the company said in the court filing.
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As prices fell, the government bought grain or paid farmers to store it, creating a price floor.
As cheap American and Ukrainian grain imports threatened farmers' jobs in the late 1870s, continental Europe closed its agricultural markets.
The son of grain and pig farmers in Saskatchewan, Ayre, 50, set up his company in Costa Rica and handled billions of dollars in online wagers.
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Argentine farmers suspend grain exports, meat sales as tax conflict deepens.
Grain elevators supported by railroads allowed Chicago to increase the density of its markets as farmers moved from sacks of grain to wagonloads.
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Bowman said he bought the seeds as part of an undifferentiated mix of "commodity" seeds from a grain elevator, and that farmers had used such seeds for planting for decades.
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And those same officials allow the farmers to keep selling grain because otherwise they would have to compensate or relocate them.
But the best way to head off these unwelcome developments may be to allow farmers to diversify out of grain, into more profitable products.
He suggests that farmers trying to grow thirsty grain in dry northern and western parts of China should be persuaded to change their crops.
Some grain analysts say U.S. farmers need to plant an additional eight million acres this year to bring supplies back to more comfortable levels, but it is far from clear where so much land would come from.
In the 1980s, however, those same farmers were crushed by the Soviet grain embargo, double-digit interest rates, a worldwide recession and high energy costs.
It starts with the plant breeders who develop new crop varieties and extends through seed production, farmers who cultivate the crops, grain handlers, transporters and processors, and finally to marketers and retailers.
This is because the strain on subsidies is bound to increase as the government usually raises the state-assured prices paid to farmers every year for procuring food grain stocks, while the supply price would remain frozen under the proposed law, he added.
Some farmers are waiting, holding onto their grain, hoping for prices to go back up.
Many livestock farmers are losing money feeding high-priced grain to their herds, which could force them to shrink the size of their operations.
Many food executives had hoped that southern hemisphere farmers would try to cash in on high grain prices by growing bigger crops over the next several months, but weather problems are plaguing growers in several countries.
EU. But separating contraband corn from acceptable varieties is no easy task, despite education campaigns for farmers and attempts by the country's big grain handlers, such as Archer Daniels Midland, to divert unapproved crops away from export channels.
Fertilizer, like many commodities, rises and falls dramatically in price, and the volume sold varies wildly from year-to-year, too, as farmers load up on nutrients in anticipation of strong grain prices, and ease up on the stuff when they expect corn and soybean prices to be lower.
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Farmers started roadblocks on Tuesday to prevent lorries from taking grain into Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil.
Midwestern hog farmers, with easy access to cheap corn and other grain, dominated the hog market.
For the first five years, while the trees get going, the farmers are being compensated with cash and a supply of grain.
The fuel and grain needed to run a dairy were getting more expensive, and farmers were getting such low prices for their milk that it was hard to make ends meet.
It attracts farmers and their groupies: commodities brokers, agronomists, grain buyers, ag reporters and representatives from the likes of Cargill and Kraft Foods, all looking for hints as to the size of the impending harvest.
It attracts farmers and their groupies: commodities brokers, agronomists, grain buyers, ag reporters and representatives from the likes of Cargill and Kraft Foods (nyse: KFT - news - people ), all looking for hints as to the size of the impending harvest.
How long the grain rally lasts rests largely on what happens when U.S. farmers return to their fields this spring.
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