41. Now farmers get in and out of the fields at full tilt, so they can make money working in small factories or running their own businesses. 42. One wild card is the new farm bill, which allows farmers to get government payments without placing any restriction on what they grow. 43. Rawls said the process is working, and that as part of the settlement, USDA lowered the standard of evidence so that more farmers would get compensation. 44. Quota farmers get a guaranteed income for growing a specified amount of peanuts. 45. Seed companies are both helped and hurt by high grain prices, because they must pay farmers who produce seed the same price the farmers would get for grain. 46. The betting on Capitol Hill now is that the northeastern dairy farmers will eventually get what they want. 47. The compromise also would raise the minimum price farmers get for milk. 48. The farmer had gotten the last hay in just the week before, and now the field was pale yellow and the rain swept across it in waves. 49. The monitor would help determine how much money individual farmers would get to settle their claims. 50. The market price is what the farmer gets for selling the crop. |