31. In exchange, farmers are free to plant any crop they want. 32. In most cases it would guarantee farmers an annual check for seven years, no matter what crops they planted and no matter how high crop prices went. 33. In other areas, meager wheat stands are being torn up to plant other crops. 34. In sharp contrast, the British Medical Association called for a moratorium on planting GMO crops in the U.K. several years ago. 35. In steamy greenhouses across the Southeast, tobacco farmers have begun the laborious process of planting the crop. 36. In the afternoons, he helped his parents plant crops in the rugged mountains outside this city in northeastern Colombia. 37. Instead, they fight weeds by planting winter crops such as black oats, or by spraying a biodegradable herbicide such as glyphosate. 38. It also avoided undermining the local economy, since farmers would be reluctant to plant new crops if free food was available. 39. Last year, the biggest problem faced by Southern cotton farmers was finding enough extra land on which to plant their crops and sufficient equipment to harvest it. 40. May heating oil prices were boosted recently by an unseasonable cold snap and increased demand for diesel, a similar distillate fuel, from farmers planting crops. |