Traditionally, the San are not farmers and poor rains during the past rainy season have worsened their food deficit situation. This year, the situation has been made worse by the fact that harvests have been poor and the other communities could not give them grain," she said. Meanwhile, Chief Mathuphula has called for the resuscitation of the food for work programme to alleviate the effects of a possible drought in the district. Mrs Banda-Ndethi said Tsholotsho was a perennially dry area...

The Bailonis are hoping to sell 100 50kg bags of corn ears - the cobs are lying round the back of their two-room house in a vast wooden cradle designed to keep the rats away. As Pollan says, the money, which in 2005 kept the price of corn at around half what it costs to produce, is in effect a subsidy for the big American companies that buy and process the corn - and these companies and their political supporters are the ones that dictate American farm policy. So why - and this is what...

BY RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS . Indiana's second-driest May on record has left fields dusty across the state, raising fears that a drought could ruin farmers' hopes of capitalizing on high corn prices driven by the booming ethanol industry. Dry May might dash farmers' hope of cashing in on corn prices. BY RICK CALLAHAN Associated Press Writer INDIANAPOLIS . Indiana's second-driest May on record has left fields dusty across the state, raising fears that a drought...

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Blessed with near-perfect weather, Southwestern Ontario farmers have planted a record corn crop estimated at 2. Two new ethanol plants are underway in Ontario but won't be able to absorb the surge in corn production until they become operational next year. Dozens of new plants have been built or are under construction as part of an energy strategy to reduce American dependence on foreign oil. Farmers have moved on to soybeans, with about 75 per cent of that crop in the ground. Johnson said...