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Corn belt thriller, real farm family

Expand or Die. Get big or get out. Those are the pressures of a commodity corn growers in the Iowa and the rest of the American Midwest, as portrayed in Director Ramin Bahrani’s new film, “At Any Price.” The movie opens today in limited...

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Farmers Hope Summer Ends Dry

by David Sommerstein

Aug 25, 2004 — For the North Country's dairy farmers, summer is the time to grow nutritious feed to get the herd through the winter. And from the layperson's perspective, it looks like the cold and rain have stunted the crops. Yesterday, David Sommerstein went out to the cornfields of the Cornell Cooperative Extension of St. Lawrence County to find out how farmers are faring. He spoke with agronomist Pete Barney, who says it's been a challenge. Go to full article

Rain Too Late for Flagging Corn Crop

by Jody Tosti

Aug 27, 2001 — Dry conditions this summer have left fields of flagging corn crops across St. Lawrence and Jefferson counties. Some much-needed rain has fallen over the last week or so, but as Jody Tosti reports, for some farmers that wet weather may have been a little too late. Go to full article

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