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phantom lady
10/02/09

In reply to Fountain Of Youth
I think the Eiffel Tower is flirting with me. Isn't she married?
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CParis
10/03/09

@phantom lady:
And Madame Eiffel Tower is 120 years old, what a cougar!
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MIXED
10/02/09

In reply to Fountain Of Youth
I am currently studying in this wonderful, amazing, awesome, fabulous, beautiful city and I AM LOVING IT.
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labeled
08/28/09

In reply to On The Fence
Trust me when I say, y'all don't know debt like farm debt. It is absurd, and amazing that anyone can ever manage to stay afloat.
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sassyredhead
08/28/09

In reply to On The Fence
I know more about cattle farming than I ever thought I needed to know due to The Pioneer Woman. I love that site. They also just went through all the rounding up and shipping off to sell.
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greengrey
08/28/09

@sassyredhead: That site is THE BEST.
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Crazie Janie
08/28/09

@sassyredhead: Not to snark, because I also love PW, but she and her husband and his family are actually really wealthy, and own one of the largest ranching operations in the country. They sell their cattle every year as part of their operation. The family in the above picture are selling what may actually be dairy cows in order to pay off debt.
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sassyredhead
08/28/09

@Crazie Janie: I was just saying that I know more about it from her site. And yeah, I can tell from the pictures they they are not hurting financially.
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par3
08/27/09

In reply to Friend Of A Farmer
she's fixin' to make some sarma.
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sybann
08/27/09

In reply to Friend Of A Farmer
Now this woman has hair issues.
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CurtCole
08/27/09

In reply to Friend Of A Farmer
Quick! Name a fruit that is the same color as that lady's hair!
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CurtCole
08/27/09

@CurtCole: I think she falls in the grape category of the color wheel.
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JerseyGrrrl
08/27/09

@CurtCole: That color is not naturally occurring in, you know, nature.
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Mary McCarthyite
08/27/09

@CurtCole: Pomegranate!
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labeled
08/27/09

@Mary McCarthyite: You totally beat me!
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Scout
05/27/09

In reply to It's Not Easy Being Green
[homegrown.org]
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bowleserised
05/27/09

In reply to It's Not Easy Being Green
I was in the middle of Berlin the other day and there were TWO HUNDRED giant, bright green John Deere tractors parading through the streets at slow speed as part of the protest. Quite a sight.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/27/09

In reply to It's Not Easy Being Green
Support your local farmers! Small farmers have a tough go of it these days, and the things you'd think they'd be suited to (like organic farming) are tough because in the U.S. it costs money to get a product USDA certified as organic. And seeds can be trademarked and companies can sue farmers for replanting from their past crops instead of buying new seeds - who knew? I'm working on a story about local food production, and am fascinated by this stuff.
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AnnoyingFemaleLeadVoiceover
05/27/09

@Flackette Goes Retro: Monsanto=evil.
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save jinger
05/27/09

In reply to It's Not Easy Being Green
I hope some support will crop up as a result of this protest.
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AmericanSplendor
05/27/09

In reply to It's Not Easy Being Green
Does anyone know, are German farmers subsidized the way American farmers are? I took an agricultural economics class and I got the impression that we subsidize pretty heavily compared to other countries. But, my teacher was a complete asshat who thought America was the only country in the world, so we didn't discuss anything but the US, even though we were supposed look at other nations.
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Flackette Goes Retro
05/27/09

@AmericanSplendor: America doesn't even subsidize like it used to. My family used to be in farming, and actually got paid for not growing some crops. Those days, and those subsidies, are long gone. Kentucky in particular (my home state) is reeling because with less tobacco use (an overall good thing) a lot of farmers are losing their livelihoods and trying to find other ways to survive. There are some experiments with small-scale organic farming, but it costs money to get a product USDA certified as organic, so it screws a lot of small farmers. The state is trying really hard to support agritourism (ranches where people can play farmer, farms that serve as classrooms for teaching kids about food sources, and small enterprise like farmers markets selling heirloom varieties, that kind of stuff).
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Plum-Pie
05/27/09

@AmericanSplendor: I replied to you but it's now under the first post!
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badmutha
05/27/09

In reply to It's Not Easy Being Green
...And a woman with a whistle shall weed them. Er, I mean lead them.
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Lucille van Pelt
05/27/09

In reply to It's Not Easy Being Green
Genuine question for the international type jezzies out there -
how much of these types of problems are due to the EU being formed. I hear about problems with workers traveling from country to country getting jobs throughout and that causes racism and immigrant related problems, but what about farming? is there a lot of import from other countries that would keep the prices below what the German farmers can support?
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Plum-Pie
05/27/09

@AmericanSplendor: Some info here:"The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a system of European Union agricultural subsidies and programs. It represents 48% of the EU's budget, €49.8 billion in 2006 (up from €48.5 billion in 2005).[1]

The CAP combines a direct subsidy payment for crops and land which may be cultivated with price support mechanisms, including guaranteed minimum prices, import tariffs and quotas on certain goods from outside the EU. Reforms of the system are currently underway reducing import controls and transferring subsidy to land stewardship rather than specific crop production (phased from 2004 to 2012). Detailed implementation of the scheme varies in different member countries of the EU.

Until 1992 the agriculture expenditure of the European Union represented nearly 49% of the EU's budget. By 2013, the share of traditional CAP spending will have almost halved (32%), following a decrease in real terms in the current financing period. In contrast, the amounts for the EU's Regional Policy represented 17% of the EU budget in 1988. They will more than double to reach almost 36% in 201"

[en.wikipedia.org]

Info on reform here: [ec.europa.eu]
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farmersdaughter
02/19/09

In reply to Farmer Girl
Of course this would go up while I am in a class that requires paying attention! Hopefully one of those increases is me in a few years! Although I might actually be counted this time around since our farm is run as a family corporation, of which I am a part...

Anyway, yay for women farmers!
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hellosunshine
02/19/09

@farmersdaughter: My computer's crapping out so I haven't commented as much today, but I very much thought "where the hell is farmersdaughter on this!" :-)
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