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  • noun Plural form of farmer.

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Examples

  • Monsanto goes after farmers, farmers’ co-ops, seed dealers—anyone it suspects may have infringed its patents of genetically modified seeds.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Monsanto��s Harvest of Fear 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Monsanto’s Harvest of Fear'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Monsanto goes after farmers, farmers’ co-ops, seed dealers—anyone it suspects may have infringed its patents of genetically modified seeds.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Monsanto��s Harvest of Fear 2008

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Argentina arrests leader in 3-month farmers & truckers strike'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Argentine police in riot gear broke up a farmers\' highway blockade Saturday, briefly arresting 19 demonstrators including a prominent leader of a three-month protest against an increase in grain export taxes.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Argentina arrests leader in 3-month farmers & truckers strike 2008

  • Then came farmers in farmers’ dress, driving horses and oxen yoked to both plow and harrow, while a new modeled threshing-machine followed.

    XI. The Federalist City. 1783-1800. 1906

  • As regards the distress among farmers, I presume we can not go to a higher authority than those honorable gentlemen who profess to be the farmers’ friends and protectors.

    The Effects of Protection on Agriculture 1906

  • In addition, it will aim to improve market linkages for small farmers through the provision of technical support services, while strengthening farmers′ organizations and building local institutional capacities.

    news.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs 2010

  • In addition, I'm aware of two grocery retail chains that use the term farmers'

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Andrew Gunther 2010

  • In emerging markets, Wal-Mart has pledged to sell $1 billion of food from small and medium farmers which it defines as farmers with fewer than 20 hectares, about 50 acres.

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD 2010

  • In emerging markets, Wal-Mart has pledged to sell $1 billion of food from small and medium farmers (which it defines as farmers with fewer than 20 hectares, about 50 acres).

    NYT > Home Page By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD 2010

  • Pundits would make lousy farmers is a guess, Obama made a lousy president is a reality.

    Obama jokes that pundits would make lousy farmers 2010

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