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		<title>How Safe Are Guests at Your Petting Zoo?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the E coli virus has ripped through the UK and has left in its wake widespread illness and plenty of finger pointing, authorities are being questioned on why it took them so long to respond. The 0157 e coli strain, which could lead to fatalities, was the worst outbreak in UK history, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Running A-fowl of the Law</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Running a farm operation requires walking a fine line sometimes between business operations and regulations. While most farm owners do a great job maintaining proper operating procedures and animal handling, some farmers find themselves cutting corners that put them squarely at odd with regulators and animal rights activists. One Maine-based farm found themselves paying large [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insureyourfarm.com/blog/running-a-fowl-of-the-law/</link>
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		<title>Deer Damage and Crop Loss in Agribusiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not just crop growers who have to be concerned with the damages caused by deer. Livestock growers feel the effects of the Bambi invasion nearly as heavily as do those farmers raising cash crops. Deer not only chew through feed crops and water supplies, they bring down fences and introduce disease to livestock. How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insureyourfarm.com/blog/deer-damage-and-crop-loss-in-agribusiness/</link>
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		<title>Price Fixing in Tomato Land &#8211; Is your Agribusiness Safe from Antitrust Charges?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you hear the word “antitrust” it’s often associated with large corporations such as airlines, software companies, and financial corporations. Until recently, no one would have thought that antitrust laws would be breached at the agribusiness level. Yet that’s exactly what one former tomato grower is charged with. Frederick Scott Salyer has pleaded not guilty [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insureyourfarm.com/blog/price-fixing-in-tomato-land-is-your-agribusiness-safe-from-antitrust-charges/</link>
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		<title>6 Things You Can Do to Cope With The $6.9B Crop Insurance Hole</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Farmers used to adopting their risk management plan around a federal failsafe may soon find that failsafe gone. That’s because the current USDA negotiating draft of the Standard Reinsurance Agreement has a huge hole in it the size of $6.9 billion. The proposed cuts come from the crop insurance program and are three times that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insureyourfarm.com/blog/6-things-you-can-do-to-cope-with-the-6-9b-crop-insurance-hole/</link>
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		<title>Bracing for the Terrorist Storm in Agribusiness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late spring and early summer are busy times for farmers, but they can also be dangerous times. Severe storms, tornadoes, lightning strikes, flooding and the like can interrupt business, damage or destroy crops, or kill or severely injure livestock. Now you have a new one – agroterrorism. Certainly more emphasis has been put on agroterrorism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insureyourfarm.com/blog/bracing-for-the-terrorist-storm-in-agribusiness/</link>
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		<title>Six things to consider before setting up shop at the Farmers Market &#8211; the NEW Produce Sales Mecca</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The local farmer’s market is now in vogue. Farmers market surveys from across North America are uncovering surprising findings – the local farmers market has become a mecca for produce sales. Iowa Department of Agriculture’s 2009 Farmers Market Economic Impact Survey shows a 92 percent increase in sales over the last five years at Iowa’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insureyourfarm.com/blog/six-things-to-consider-before-setting-up-shop-at-the-farmers-market-the-new-produce-sales-mecca/</link>
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		<title>9 Ways to Reduce your Herd&#8217;s Eco-Impact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to imagine that farmers and agribusiness owners wouldn’t embrace environmental sustainability. Yet plenty of agriculture operations are just as detrimental to the health of the ecology as a plant dumping toxins directly into a river. That’s because today’s high-yield food needs often put farmers in the position of using chemicals and growth hormones [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insureyourfarm.com/blog/9-ways-to-reduce-your-herds-eco-impact/</link>
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		<title>Six Winter Dangers Affecting Livestock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hard winters wreak havoc on humans, but the weather poses a deadly threat to livestock herds. With this season’s record snowfalls and frigid temperatures, agribusiness owners are forced to work harder to keep the herds safe and healthy. Warm spring temperatures followed by heavy snowfall will add more stress to already stressed herds. Farmers facing higher [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.insureyourfarm.com/blog/six-winter-dangers-affecting-livestock/</link>
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		<title>Ethanol, Corn, and Your Ag Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not too many agribusiness owners would argue to potential windfall that government approval of an ethanol blend would bring. That seems to be close to happening – the EPA announced in December that it was satisfied with the feasibility of ethanol, and contingent on further testing, it could soon approve 15 percent ethanol blends based [...]]]></description>
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