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    Mexican farm workers file suit against Canada

    Three Mexican migrant farm workers have filed a lawsuit against the Canadian government and their Ontario-based former employer for terminating their contract and sending them home without reason or explanation. More...
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    Facebook to install giant server farm near Arctic Circle

    When you have a giant server farm that handles tons of traffic like the ones Facebook operates, the cost of keeping all that hardware cool is massive. Facebook has plans to build its latest massive server farm a mere 62 miles south of the Arctic Circle. The giant server farm will reportedly be...
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    Pickton victim's stepmom tried to search pig farm

    The stepmother of one of Robert Pickton's victims says she tried to scale the fence at his B.C. pig farm in a desperate search for her stepdaughter
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    Germany still seeking reason for E. coli outbreak

    BERLIN – German authorities say they haven't yet been able to resolve how sprouts at a farm became contaminated with an aggressive strain of E. coli that has been blamed for 33 deaths. Officials determined Friday that sprouts grown at the farm in Lower Saxony state, in northern Germany, were...
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    To address unemployment, Georgia governor proposes farm work

    Atlanta (CNN) -- Are you out of work? Are you looking for a job? Do you live in Georgia? If the answer to those questions is "yes," Gov. Nathan Deal has an idea for you: Become a farm worker. "We still have an unemployment level here that is unacceptably high, whether or not we can provide...
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    High school student killed in farming accident

    BAY COUNTY (WJRT) -- (05/30/11) -- A tragic accident on a Mid-Michigan farm killed a high school student in Bay County. It happened a little before 9 Monday morning at a dairy farm northwest of Standish on Stevenson Road in Gibson Township. Tom Osier, and 18-year-old junior at...
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    Farmers matched to land

    Christine and TJ Costa, a pair of 34-year-old teachers, yearned to farm full time, but with just a quarter-acre and some hens in Chester County, they could not earn enough to quit their day jobs. Nearby, an aging Eleanor Morris watched as Lundale, the farm she and her late husband, Samuel...
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    Burton Cummings in B.C. land dispute

    Burton Cummings, who received an Order of Canada from Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean in 2010, is locked in a battle over a development near his property on Vancouver Island. Canadian singer Burton Cummings is making no apologies for using his fame to try to help people in his community stop a...
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    Ont. farm accused of not paying migrant workers

    Migrant workers at a farm near Simcoe, Ont., say they are owed tens of thousands of dollars after their employer ran into financial trouble and left the country without paying them. The 136 workers came to Ghesquiere Plant Farm from Mexico, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica and Barbados. They are...
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    Woman, 93, runs cattle farm

    HADDOCK, Ga. -- While living and working away from home, Jane Haddock says she realized she wasn't doing what she had always wanted to. It was 1950, and she had graduated from college in Milledgeville. She was working for the American Red Cross, a job she enjoyed, but she was homesick. So...
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    Cow Adopts Pig At Greer Farm

    Cow Lost Calf, Started Nursing Pig Instead GREER, S.C. -- It's not something workers at a Greer farm say they've ever seen. For Bluebell, a small cow who lost her calf a few weeks back, a 10-week-old piglet named Wilbur will do just fine. Carol Fisher at Fisher's In The Fall farm said that...
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    Police encounter mellow bears at pot farm

    Police encounter mellow bears at pot farm VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Canadian police investigating a British Columbia marijuana farm said they were greeted by 10 to 15 docile black bears. Police Sgt. Fred Mansveld said officers investigating the marijuana growing operation, which included...
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    Ten charged in Ontario prison protest

    Ten charged in Ontario prison protest KINGSTON, Ontario, Canadian police said they arrested a 10th protester Monday, a day after a large demonstration outside an Ontario prison farm that is slated for closure. Several hundred protesters crowded outside the gates of Frontenac Prison in...
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    Starting A Pig Farm is HARD

    Starting A Pig Farm is HARD A city slicker wanted to start a pig farm so he pick up a dozen or so pigs a put them in a pen, A few weeks went by and he doesn't see them mating so he went to the vet the vet said "when they mate you'll know they lay and wallow in the mud after" So the farmer said...
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