Farmers

Trump is headed to the G20 Summit in Japan next week, during which he plans to meet with China's Xi Jinping to discuss trade tensions face-to-face.

E15, an environmentally unfriendly fuel blend, will soon dominate gas pumps nationwide, a great deal for farmers and the ethanol industry but a raw deal for everyone else.

A comprehensive climate policy could create new livelihoods for rural Americans and farmers suffering under Trump administration policies.

"Every day we come in and we've got a plan. But then it rains three inches somewhere overnight where it wasn't expected, and the plan changes," an ag transportation manager said.

"One in five jobs in Iowa is tied directly to trade," Senator Joni Ernst said. "Most of that is around the farming sector, our agricultural sector. So it is very tense times."

"While the aid package will help farmers pay their bills, this is not a long-term solution to the damages caused by lost markets," the Illinois Farm Bureau said.

Senator Jerry Moran, In a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, urged the Trump administration to resolve the China trade dispute that's "hurting" Kansas' farmers and ranchers.

A National Farmers Union executive and Wisconsin dairy farmer ridiculed Trump's ongoing trade war with China, warning of increased financial stress and suicides among U.S. farmers.

"This is survival at this point. I mean, for a lot of operations it is a survival thing," Iowa farmer Robert Ewoldt said.

"I love the position we're in," Trump told reporters. "It's working out really well."

"The farm labor force in the U.S. is aging, and it's not really being replaced by young immigrant workers the way it once was," the study's lead author told Newsweek.

The U.S. exported $276.2 billion worth of products to Mexico to in 2017.

President Trump signed an executive order to withdraw the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership in 2017. He said at the time that the move was a "great thing for the American worker."

In 2000, war veterans evicted at least 4,500 white farmers who are still feeling the effects of having their farmlands expropriated.

No one wants to kill an animal that near extinction. So how come the popular Endangered Species Act isn't working?

South Africa's constitution amendment is part of an ongoing and contentious debate about how to make land ownership in the country more equitable.

The state of Tamil Nadu is now facing its worst drought in 140 years. India's government has promised aid, but little has come.

"There isn't a person in the state that isn't hoping to see some rain for our farmers and regional communities," a local official said.

Criticism from Republicans of the president's aid package for farmers ranged from calling it "gold crutches" to "welfare for farmers" to taking America back to "1929 again."

The Trump administration announced a $12 billion emergency aid package for farmers caught in the middle of his ongoing and escalating trade wars with China, Europe, Canada and Mexico.

Stealing property from millions of black South Africans was the country's original crime. But more than two decades after the fall of white minority rule, only a few have seen the land returned.

The course involves training with weapons and hand-to-hand combat.

Water surged through nearby villages, destroying homes and a school, and carrying residents away.

South Africa was "offended" after an Australian minister said the white Afrikaner population was "persecuted" and in need of a "civilized country."

"Sexual harassment was the daily bread of farming for women," said Lupe Gonzalo, a former farmworker who now works as an educator for the Fair Food Program.

The project is expected to cost more than $1 billion. 

"Oh, are you happy you voted for me," the president said. "You are so lucky that I gave you that privilege."

Republicans called the proposal "backwards" and "cannibalistic, zero-sum scenario," while farm lobbying groups warned of serious consequences if President Donald Trump broke a promise to farmers.

Farmers are concerned after a string of wolf attacks on their sheep.

Farmers have been using candles, heaters and even the down-draught from helicopters to save crops.