Mr Shimazaki thinks farm liberalisation is inevitable as old farmers retire, but like many is worried about the costs of open borders on other uncompetitive parts of the economy, such as the finance and construction industries.
Gene transfer is an age-old concern of farmers, who've learned how to prevent pollen cross-contamination when necessary for commercial reasons.
Walk down the hill from the cathedral, and, embedded between medieval mansions and houses, you will find the Marktplatz, a lively market square in the centre of the Old Town where farmers sell vegetables, fruit, bread and cheese each day.
Joan Centlivre, the 54-year-old president of the Chicago Farmers association, craves farmland.
The Department of Agriculture has also introduced a pilot programme in Nebraska and Iowa for revenue insurance, which, unlike the old crop insurance, guarantees farmers against falling prices as well as lost crops.
All the old complex payments for what farmers were able to produce have been replaced by just one subsidy based upon the amount of land the farmer has - known as the Single Farm Payment.
Tapping into old family connections, he convinced farmers to sell their land to him on credit.
In one recent case, the berobed judges solemnly adjudicated between a pair of irate farmers feuding over three old hoes.
Lugo could become a victim of a conflict between rural landowners and poor farmers that is a century old, said Luis Galeano, a professor at the Catholic University in the capital.
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And for those who can't bring in a sellable crop at all, there's always that old standby: federal emergency assistance for farmers who lose their crops to some unkindness of nature.
Nevertheless, many farmers lament the demise of the old order.
Austria, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands are not taking part in a scheme to compensate farmers who destroy cattle over 30 months old.
During the decline, farmers neglected their plantations and failed to replace old trees.
Meanwhile, local farmers and businesses recruited the 47-year-old Mr. Vidak, a third-generation Valley farmer who narrowly lost his challenge to Democratic Rep. Jim Costa in 2010, to run on the Republican ticket.
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After the samurai, farmers were the most privileged group in Japan's old feudal hierarchy.
The source said the EU's political leaders had weakened the language on greening the CAP in a way that would enable farmers to collect subsidies for owning land in the same old way.
This week, despite New Labour's avowed indifference to the plight of old industries in trouble, the agriculture minister, Nick Brown, promised farmers some respite.
Livestock thefts may be an age-old crime, but on the O'Neill farm the police are helping farmers by using the latest technology to tackle the problem.
By the time the settled farmers discovered all this, they were too entrenched to go back to the old ways.
We arrived at another of the camps - no more than a few old sacks and tarpaulins spread out along the road opposite the mine entrance - and were immediately surrounded by farmers, who until a year ago, they said, would never have dared to speak to a foreigner about their problems.
The countryside is becoming a place for the very old or the very young, and no one in the Tang family wants their children to grow up to be farmers.
As a result of the negotiations, the Farming Minister Jane Kennedy has confirmed farmers in England will not now have to electronically tag sheep intended for slaughter before they are 12 months old when the new rules come into force.
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