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• n  workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit
  it takes several people to work the farm
• v  be a farmer; work as a farmer
  My son is farming in California
• v  collect fees or profits
• v  cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques

• Prolific crime writer Patricia Cornwell popularly dubbed it a "body farm" in her novel of the same name.
• Viewpoint: If the President is so committed to blocking the bloated farm bill, why is he doing so little to get Congress to sustain his veto?.
• All over the world, farms and ranches are turning the curiosity of city slickers into a profitable sideline.

• grow
• raise
• produce

News & Articles

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• Farm Aid 2013 Announced Recap
  This year's Farm Aid will take place in upstate New York on September 21st
  June 22, 2013 - antiMUSIC
• FARM BILL FAILURE: Defeat May Spell Trouble For Boehner, Dairy Prices
  House Defeats Farm Bill Amid Bipartisan Opposition Vote Breakdown on Farm Bill VIDEO: Rep. Hoyer on Economy
  June 21, 2013 - Fox News
• Farm Bill Meets Surprise Defeat In U.S. House
  The U.S. House defeated its version of the farm bill this afternoon. The bill would have cut the food stamps program and transformed subsidies for farmers from direct payments to crop insurance premium support. But Republicans lost 60 of their own members who voted no, along with most Democrats.
  June 21, 2013 - NPR

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in International Herald Tribune
  That conversation I had with the Farm Bureau, I was not ambivalent at all,said Obama.
• President Bush in Austin American-Statesman
  America's farm economy is thriving,Bush said during a Rose Garden news conference. "The value of farmland is skyrocketing. And this is the right time to reform our nation's farm policies by reducing unnecessary subsidies."
• John McCain in Jerusalem Post
  Here we are at a time when food prices are at historic highs, and farm income is up by 56 percent in just the past two years,McCain said. "Yet even now, the Congress has voted to give billions of dollars in subsidies to some of the biggest...