11.   Representatives of the livestock and poultry industries said strict regulations could hurt small farmers.

12.   Still, the loss of the fowl is expected to hurt farmers, especially the sweltering heat continues, said Travis Franke, the Gonzales County agricultural extension agent.

13.   The French were delighted to see protesters echoe their longtime complaint that free trade in agriculture hurts local farmers and forces them to market foods of suspicious origin.

14.   The party has pledged to review parts of NAFTA, the free trade pact with the United States and Canada that it claims has hurt Mexican farmers.

15.   The transition to a free market has hurt farmers more than any other sector of this economy.

16.   Yuba County objected that such releases hurt farmers.

17.   A comprehensive tobacco control policy is unlikely to harm economies or hurt poor farmers, the report adds.

18.   A major slump in world coffee prices in recent years has hurt farmers and forced some plantations to close.

19.   A reform advocate said that while the latest concessions will hurt some farmers, China will benefit from the pressure.

20.   Although the drought will hurt many farmers, it is not affecting enough of the country to have much impact on food prices, said Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman.