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Trump speaks to farmers, highlighting taxes and trade

by Kai Ryssdal and Kimberly Adams
Jan 8, 2018
The president announced a new initiative to expand access to rural broadband in a speech to the Farm Bureau convention.
President Donald Trump speaks at the American Farm Bureau Federations 99th Annual Convention at Opryland in Nashville, Tennessee, today.
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Who owns the seeds bought by farmers and gardeners?

by Marketplace Contributor
Aug 14, 2017
As companies like Monsanto and DuPont gain patent rights to seeds, one group of plant breeders is trying to create an alternate open access seed market.
Brian Campbell and Crystine Goldberg are breeding seeds for the Open Source Seed Initiative on their farm near Bellingham, Washington.
Eilis O'Neill/ for Marketplace
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Central California's family raisin farms are drying up

by Andy Uhler
Mar 28, 2017
Farmers are steering their kids away from the crop, whose prices are falling.
John Paboojian Jr. owns about 450 acres of raisin vineyards in Fowler, California, and has been working the land for 75 years.
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Farmers hack their equipment to evade tractor company policies

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Mar 27, 2017
Exploring the online black market of hacking solutions for John Deere tractors.
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California's raisin farmers are struggling

by Andy Uhler
Mar 8, 2017
30 years ago, Fresno County was famous for its dried fruit. Today, growers are pulling up their vineyards.
A raisin farm in central California. 
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Why our avocado cravings could be harming the environment

by Molly Wood
Aug 19, 2016
Consumer demand for avocados has increased in recent years.
Men work during the harvest of avocado at an orchard in Uruapan municipality, Michoacán State, Mexico.
ENRIQUE CASTRO/AFP/Getty Images
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Deere & Co. hit by farm economy slump

by Annie Baxter
Nov 25, 2015
Deere & Co. is getting hit by a downturn in the ag economy.
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Should only farmers be allowed to sell in farmers markets?

by Blake Farmer
May 21, 2015
Defining what a farmers market is can be difficult.
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As walnut prices rise, consumers look to pecans

by Marketplace Contributor
May 18, 2015
With years of drought in California affecting nut production, some farmers are looking at other places and other nuts to grow.
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Farmers, big oil fight over railroad access in Dakotas

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
Jan 12, 2015
"Grain cars were unhooked so the locomotives could hook onto oil," one farmer says. Dakota railroads tell another story.
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