Farm workers to get nearly &#36;1.9 million
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A judge has ordered one of the nation's largest labor contractors and two growers in central Washington's Yakima Valley to pay more than 600 farm workers nearly $1.9 million in damages for federal labor law violations.
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By Bill Jackson, Greeley Tribune, Colo.  Feb. 23--Immigration policies are a bureaucratic mess and getting farm labor for small farmers is next to impossible.
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Dairy workers in Lynn will learn team building and supervisory skills with a $156,825 grant to Garelick Farms LLC from the state's Workforce Training Fund. The grant was announced at the Lynnway plant on Monday by Suzanne M. Bump , director of the state's Department of Workforce Development.
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By STEEMAN, Marta  Boom times are beginning for the dairy industry after a record payout was forecast yesterday that will boost Canterbury dairy farmer incomes by about $176 million next season.
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By Elmer Ploetz  In 2007, the fortunes of many Western New York farmers won't be as dependent on local weather as on the political climate in Washington.  That's where the politicians will be turning their attention to immigrant labor - again.
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Ben Sheets and the Milwaukee Brewers agreed Sunday to a &#36;6 million, one-year contract that avoided a salary arbitration hearing
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By The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Mar. 4--The Bush administration is proposing an $87.8 billion farm bill that would cut overall agricultural spending, boost funding of conservation programs and reduce the number of wealthy farmers eligible for taxpayer subsidies.
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Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd., the world&#39;s biggest dairy exporter, said its A$1.34 billion ($1.01 billion) offer for the rest of National Foods Ltd.
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HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 15  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Agriculture Secretary Dennis Wolff today announced the investment of nearly $77 million to protect Pennsylvania's farmland. In addition, $14 million was approved for the preservation of 47 farms totaling nearly 5,000 acres.
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he United States Department of Labor announced yesterday that it had reached a $1.9 million settlement with a contractor for the Target Corporation after finding that the contractor had
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Spending by contestants and supporters in the U.S. elections this year will be nearly &#36;4 billion, the highest ever, a study released on Thursday said.
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Gordon Wassenaar has his eye  on a $300,000 combine harvester to replace the 1990 model he  repairs each winter in the workshop on his farm. And he just  bought more land to add to his 1,600-acre spread.
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By ANDREW FORGRAVE Rural Affairs Editor  EACH day UK farmers supply 31m pints of fresh milk, 19.5m eggs and 11.6m loaves of bread to British homes. They manage 85% of the countryside and tend 10m cattle, 35m sheep and nearly ;m pigs.
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Public health officials probing a bird flu outbreak on a farm said Sunday that 36 people could have been in contact with the disease.
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Two years ago in December, fewer than 30 U.S. business representatives came to Havana to sign agreements with Cuban officials to export food to the Caribbean island. This week, Cuba expects more than 340 people &#151; primarily producers of American farm goods &#151; to attend the latest round of talks, in which communist officials hope to sign deals worth about &#36;100 million.
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The Agriculture Department sent $1.1 billion in farm payments to more than 170,000 dead people over a seven-year period, congressional investigators say.
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Farmers are not ready to abandon   crop subsidies for the "green" payments that some reformers say   should be the new focus of the $20 billion-a-year U.S. farm   program, a survey of growers showed on Wednesday.