61.   Farmers say that the demise of apple-farming traditions is inevitable.

62.   Farmers say the bill would protect them from frivolous suits and reduce their insurance costs.

63.   Farmers say the company has refused to buy the far larger quantities of corn that may have been mixed with StarLink strains.

64.   Farmers say the lack of rain has made these vegetables dense and meaty.

65.   Farmers say these cost tens of thousands of dollars for even the smallest operations and could even require them to uproot vines if problems are unearthed.

66.   Farmers say, too, that walking away from an apple orchard for a season does not free them from maintaining it.

67.   Farmers here say American products simply cannot meet Japanese standards of quality, which depend on wrapping of apples.

68.   Farmers said that even if they or their buyers could make it over the road, none of them could pass the Israeli checkpoints.

69.   Farmers said that settlers had attacked them, shooting in the air and using gasoline to torch the cars.

70.   Farmers say violence has escalated in recent weeks as the government has expanded its plans to redistribute white-owned farms to blacks.