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Slideshow: Bumper crop of businesses host concerts to benefit HAAM
2014-09-24 19:08:25| Grocery - Topix.net
Nearly 200 concerts around Austin were part of HAAM Benefit Day Tuesday, including several performances at Whole Earth Provision Co. location on North Lamar Boulevard at 11th Street.
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UPDATE 1-Deere to explore strategic options for crop insurance unit
2014-09-24 00:08:43| Industrial Machines - Topix.net
Deere & Co, the world's largest farm equipment maker, said it was exploring strategic options for its low-margin crop insurance business and had hired Citigroup as its adviser. The business underwrites policies through John Deere Insurance Co, offering protection to farmers from losses stemming from a variety of causes such as natural disasters and declines in crop prices.
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2014 Crop insurance payments likely (in Minnesota)
2014-09-23 17:06:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
The continued low CBOT corn and soybean prices increases the likelihood of significant 2014 crop insurance indemnity payments for many Minnesota farm operators that have 80% and 85% RP insurance policies in place. Crop insurance payments may not be as widespread in states such as Iowa and Illinois, which are likely to have much higher 2014 corn and soybean yield levels than will exist in much of Minnesota. Focus on Ag read more
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Sugar-cane crop hit by long drought
2014-09-23 10:52:38| Sugar Industry News
Sugar-cane output from the Northeast this season is likely to fail to reach the projected 100 tonnes due to climate change, says the North Eastern Cane Planters' Association.
As Uganda heats up, pests and disease flourish to attack its top export crop
2014-09-21 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: When Abudu Zikusoka was a small boy his father would bring people to their home in Ndesse village in Central Uganda's Mukono district. He would watch as they packed the family's harvested coffee into sacks and then loaded it onto their bicycles. "I used to see one of them giving daddy money from which he took out some coins to give my sister," Zikusoka tells IPS. "When my brother started going to school, daddy continued with the practice until one day I asked my sister where she was taking...
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