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In this undated photo provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, two mammal-eating "transient" killer whales are photographed off the south side of Unimak Island in the eastern Aleutian Islands of Alaska. (AP Photo/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Robert Pitman)

Farmers want killer whales off endangered-species list

Last updated Wednesday, November 28, 2012 - 4:37pm

SEATTLE — California farmers want to take Puget Sound’s killer whales off the endangered-species list, arguing they are not a separate population and that protecting the fish they eat is hurting business.

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Farmers pray for deep snow in the mountains to kill drought

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, November 16, 2012 - 7:01am

LAYTON — It’s an age-old battle: Farmers versus the elements.

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Farmfest coming to farmer’s market

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, July 18, 2012 - 9:01pm

OGDEN — The Weber County Farm Bureau is planning an event that will bring the farm to area residents.

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Texas rice farmer Ray Stoesser stands outside his rice elevator Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, in Dayton, Texas. In the past month Iraq decided to no longer buy rice from U.S. farmers, dumping yet another problem on farmers already struggling with drought, excessive heat, rising production costs and dropping global prices. (AP Photo/Pat Sullivan)

Farmers furious after Iraq stops buying U.S. rice

Ramit Plushnick-Masti The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 10:56am

DAYTON, Texas -- U.S. rice farmers are fuming over a decision by Iraq to stop buying American rice. Instead it is buying cheaper grains from elsewhere.

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Tame horses being released to mix with wild herds

Donald Bradley Kansas City Star

Last updated Tuesday, February 14, 2012 - 2:36pm

EMINENCE, Mo. -- From his pickup on a rise above the Current River, Bill Smith scanned the wild horses grazing below to see if all were members in good standing.

That's not always the case these days with Missouri's only wild horse herd, which descends from animals set free in the Great Depression by farmers who couldn't afford to feed them.

Because it's happening again in the Great Recession. Strapped owners are dumping horses in what is now the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, apparently thinking they will be warmly received by the wild bunch that runs the thousands of public acres along the Current and Jacks Fork rivers.

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Vegas wants more rural water

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, February 3, 2012 - 2:56pm

LAS VEGAS — With a crucial water rights decision pending, the Southern Nevada Water Authority is revising its request to Nevada’s top water rights official — asking to raise by almost 80 percent the amount of groundwater Las Vegas can draw from rural valleys in counties north of the city.

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People climb onto chairs and tables to defend themselves from snakes scattered in an office room in Basti, about 186 miles (300 kilometers) southeast of Lucknow, India, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2011. Two farmers fed up with alleged bribery demands emptied three bags filled with slithering snakes in a busy tax office in northern India, an official said Wednesday. The 40 or so snakes of different sizes and species, including at least four deadly cobras, sent clerks and villagers climbing atop tables and scurrying out the door to escape the office. (AP Photo)

Indian farmers protest bribery demands by dumping bags of snakes in tax office

Biswajeet Banerjee The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, November 30, 2011 - 2:36pm

LUCKNOW, India -- Two farmers fed up with alleged bribery demands emptied three bags filled with slithering snakes in a busy tax office in northern India, an official said Wednesday.

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In this file photo farmer Ervin Davis cuts alfalfa with a tractor in the mid-day heat in West Warren. Farming issues were to be addressed at this year’s Utah Farm Bureau Convention at the Davis Convention Center on Thursday and today.

Farm issues to be addressed

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 11:26pm

LAYTON -- Wolves may not be creeping into Davis County farms yet, but the predatory animals are a concern of every Utah farmer.

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Utah farmers meeting in Layton express concern about wolves

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, November 17, 2011 - 6:04pm

LAYTON -- Wolves may not be creeping into Davis County farms yet, but the predatory animals are a concern of every Utah farmer.

How to handle the unwanted visitors is just one of the many issues Utah farmers are discussing at this year's Utah Farm Bureau Convention. The convention, which began at the Davis Convention Center on Thursday and continues Friday, gives the farmers the opportunity to discuss issues impacting agriculture and propose solutions to correct them.

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(ERIN HOOLEY/Standard-Examiner) Jed Diamond prepares to plant wheat in Syracuse.

Northern Utah farmers hoping for extra time to harvest

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, October 24, 2011 - 6:19am

Many in the Top of Utah may have forgotten the torrential rains and flooding this past spring, but area farmers are just fully feeling the effects in lower yields and late harvests caused by wet ground and late planting.

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Farmer goes on pelican killing spree

Josephine Marcotty Minneapolis Star Tribune

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 2:58pm

MINNEAPOLIS -- On May 17, Craig Staloch just snapped, his lawyer says.

Within the space of a few hours he smashed thousands of American White Pelican chicks and eggs -- all the offspring in one of Minnesota's largest colonies -- even though a wildlife officer had told him the day before that they were protected by federal law.

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(KERA WILLIAMS/Standard-Examiner) DeLora Fowers drives a truck alongside son Brett Fowers as he fills the back with onions in Hooper recently. DeLora, 75, says she’s glad to be able to keep busy helping her family with their farms by hauling their produce to market.

Hooper woman, 75, hauling family produce going on 60 years

JaNae Francis Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, October 2, 2011 - 11:37pm

HOOPER -- Some people look upon onions and work in much the same light, believing they are irritating. But at 75, Hooper resident DeLora Fowers doesn't look down on either one. Just when most people are slowing down, DeLora stays as busy as ever on the job.

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Hog rustlers stump farmers with theft of 750 hefty pigs

Paul Levy Minneapolis Star Tribune

Last updated Wednesday, September 28, 2011 - 1:53pm

In southern Minnesota's hog country, homes are seldom locked. But the barns are being bolted tight, guarded by surveillance cameras, motion detectors and alarms.

Until the thieves who stole nearly 750 pigs from two farms are caught, it won't be assumed that every loading truck pulling into a farm before dawn is above suspicion.

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Plastic flowers sit beneath the exposed wood of a mesquite tree near Anson, Texas, that owner Marce Suarez said resembles the Virgin Mary. (SHNS photo by Ronald W. Erdrich / Abilene Reporter-News)

Farmer sees image of Virgin Mary in mesquite tree

Ronald Erdrich Abilene Reporter-News

Last updated Friday, August 5, 2011 - 2:29pm

ANSON, Texas -- A couple of weeks ago, Marce Suarez had just about had enough of a low-hanging limb. Every time he rode his tractor near a particular old mesquite tree, the branch would either whack the muffler or knock his cap off.

Suarez owns 50 acres along U.S. 180 about 3 1/2 miles west of Anson. In a good year -- or at least a normal year with rain -- he grows small crops of watermelon, cantaloupe and squash. He sells them on a roadside stand next to his house, which he estimates to be nearly 100 years old.

But this tree limb was really getting under his skin. It was time to do something about it.

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