1. He started his career as a humble peanut farmer. 2. Among the Mourides, because many of their early leaders were peanut farmers or traders, those practices became essential to their way of life. 3. Back in the Depression, when peanut farmers were scratching to survive, the government gave them a subsidy. 4. Borden said peanut farmers have joined with the March of Dimes to help get the message out. 5. After the peanut farmer from Plains won, though, Eizenstat went into private practice with an Atlanta law firm rather than join the administration. 6. But like the fruit grower in California, the peanut farmer in Georgia has no choice but to pay the assessment. 7. Central Texas peanut farmers and pecan growers are watching and hoping that more rain will come. 8. Defenders of the program say it has kept peanut farmers solvent, provided a steady supply of quality peanuts and has cost the taxpayers little. 9. Even the Georgia representatives who bucked the southern peanut lobby have no peanut farmers in their districts. 10. For peanut farmers, many of whom depend on price guarantees to stay in business, the change means much lower profits. |