There is a huge, huge political base in this country in farming state for ethanol.
Virginia officials are eager to develop new crops in a state where tobacco farming has shrunk dramatically since the 1990s because of declining cigarette sales.
Minnesota is the nation's third-largest pig farming state, and its health experts said Wednesday they would be calling the illness "H1N1 novel flu" going forward.
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Living in Bihar, India's poorest state, Shailendra says that farming is one of the only options available to help him eke out a living.
So far these have involved only modest steps, such as turning more state land over to individual farming and official recognition that foreign investors can pay higher wages.
As we move forward, the Administration will work closely with state and local governments, farming and ranching communities and others to ensure an effective and efficient response and recovery.
Why would a tiny farming community need a state of the art tarmac runway?
Competition will force Poland to reform industries owned or protected by the state, such as energy, farming and arms.
North Carolina's agriculture commissioner says the state has lost 600, 000 farming acres and 6, 000 farms since 2002, making it the nation's leader in farm loss.
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It needs to create new jobs for the millions employed in state-owned enterprises and the farming sector whose jobs will become redundant after China joins the World Trade Organization.
Ramachandran was born into a farming family in southwestern Kerala state and grew up wearing only whites like his father.
Half of that was in agribusiness, in the soy farming town of Barreiras in Bahia state.
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Mr Khatami promises, like others before him, to boost non-oil exports, but both manufacturing and farming are in trouble, partly because of state interference.
Mr Rowbottom said he left dairy farming 15 months ago, partly due to the state of the industry, but still runs an agricultural feed business alongside a sheep farm at Ipstones.
In 2000, Iowa's attorney general declared DeCoster a "habitual violator" of state environmental laws after a series of discharges of manure from his hog-farming operations.
Mr Bush won Arkansas last November, but the state's Democratic senator, Blanche Lincoln, who grew up in a farming family, is now rallying farmers against him.
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