31.   Rios and other campesinos complain that the program does not provide incentives to big producers but bases subsidies on land size.

32.   Several metallurgical coal mines, including three big producers in western Canada, have either shut or will close later this year because of depleted reserves.

33.   Stock prices of other big copper producers were mixed Friday.

34.   Still, most big producers of the telecommunications and computer-related products under consideration for the zero tariff regime welcome the plan.

35.   Texas and Oklahoma also are big producers.

36.   Texasgulf, based in Raleigh, N.C., is a big producer of sulfur.

37.   That hurt Champion International Corp. and Union Camp Corp., two big producers of those kinds of paper products.

38.   The big producers, in the meantime, are investing in China.

39.   The European paper companies began merging several years ago and the resulting big producers, like Stora Enso, are now looking to North America for merger partners.

40.   The low prices have driven many smaller farmers out of business and have hurt the big producers, too.