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- She Thought She’d Married a Rich Chinese Farmer. She Hadn’t https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/asia/pakistan-china-trafficking.html 4 comments
- Britain's farmers have second thoughts on Brexit https://www.marketplace.org/2017/08/22/economy/britains-farmers-have-second-thoughts-brexit 8 comments europe
- Chicken Farmers Thought Trump Was Going to Help Them. Then His Administration Did the Opposite. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/chicken-farmers-thought-trump-was-going-to-help-them-then-his-administration-did-the-opposite/ 70 comments politics
- Chicken Farmers Thought Trump Was Going to Help Them. Then His Administration Did the Opposite. https://www.propublica.org/article/chicken-farmers-thought-trump-was-going-to-help-them-then-his-administration-did-the-opposite/amp?__twitter_impression=true 69 comments politics
- She Thought She’d Married a Rich Chinese Farmer. She Hadn’t. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/27/world/asia/pakistan-china-trafficking.html 10 comments pakistan
- Do not harbour thoughts of suicide, Devendra Fadnavis tells farmers http://zeenews.india.com/news/maharashtra/do-not-harbour-thoughts-of-suicide-devendra-fadnavis-tells-farmers_1513801.html 13 comments india
- Thought it was a crock, but Senate Bill 510 really could change farmer's markets for the worse. http://laughterandliberty.com/senate-bill-s510-explained-sort-of/ 28 comments reddit.com
- Upstate NY farmer shocked by Trump tariffs, mistakenly thought Canada would pay https://www.syracuse.com/state/2025/04/upstate-ny-farmer-shocked-by-trump-tariffs-mistakenly-thought-canada-would-pay.html 93 comments politics
- Chicken Farmers Thought Trump Was Going to Help Them. Then His Administration Did the Opposite. — The Agriculture Department is barely enforcing regulations on big meat companies. https://www.propublica.org/article/chicken-farmers-thought-trump-was-going-to-help-them-then-his-administration-did-the-opposite 44 comments politics
- And you thought it’s only about farmers? The new farm laws disable the right to legal recourse of all citizens, not just farmers – to an extent unseen since the 1975-77 Emergency. https://ruralindiaonline.org/articles/and-you-thought-its-only-about-farmers/ 26 comments india
- [Helfand] Kyle Farmer used his winnings from the egg toss competition to cater a taco truck. He got the idea from Adrián González, who used to bring in taco trucks when he was with the Dodgers. “I thought it’d be cool to give back,” Farmer said. https://x.com/betsyhelfand/status/1768372446082580683?s=46&t=sFQ1esZ2sOxJBCUP0CZX3g 30 comments baseball
- [Farmer] True story: NFL exec Jim Steeg got the idea of piping the Super Bowl broadcasts into the stadium restrooms after visiting Chavez Ravine. At first he thought the Dodgers were doing that a their games -- until he realized it was just everyone listening to Vin on transistor radios. https://twitter.com/LATimesfarmer/status/1554702148180422656 109 comments baseball
- Thought PM Modi Going to Ferozepur via Road was Bluff: Farmer Leader Surjit Singh Phool https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/punjab/thought-pm-going-via-road-was-bluff-farmers-358880 8 comments india
- Kanpur Farmer Thought His Loan Waived, Found Hanging After Bank Notice. He had pinned his hopes on the loan waiver on Yogi Adityanath government's loan waiver. But it turned out he wasn't covered and got a loan recovery notice from the bank. http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/kanpur-farmer-thought-his-loan-waived-but-got-bank-notice-found-hanging-1707133 9 comments india
- A new study says Europe's first farmers used far more sophisticated practices than was previously thought. A research team led by the University of Oxford has found that Neolithic farmers manured and watered their crops as early as 6,000 BC. http://phys.org/news/2013-07-manure-europe-farmers-years.html 30 comments science
- If You Thought NAFTA Was Bad, You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet: 'The TPP.. tearing down protections in the financial services, telecommunications and IP. It would create free trade for dairy, sugar and textiles. American manufacturers and farmers would suffer, while Wall Street banks reap huge profits...' http://www.alternet.org/hot-news-views/if-you-thought-nafta-was-bad-you-aint-seen-nothing-yet 112 comments politics
- A growing number of French farmers reach the breaking point : Financial problems are thought to have been behind the suicides of more than 300 French farmers last year. Despite receiving the highest subsidies in the EU http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15025264,00.html 30 comments worldnews
- In 1986, a farmer approached Dr. Caliguiri with a pine snake that had two large lumps in it. “The farmer stated he routinely tossed old burned-out light bulbs from his chicken coop into his yard,” Caliguiri said. “The confused snake may have thought the bulbs were chicken eggs.” [PIC] http://fakmegszarok.blogspot.com/2009/08/snakes-eat-everything.html 16 comments science