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  2. List of Farm to Market Roads in Texas (2400–2499) - Wikipedia

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    Farm to Market Road 2493 (FM 2493) is located in far north-central Cherokee County and south-central Smith County. It is approximately 21 miles (34 km) in length, running from an intersection with FM 177 west of Mixon northwestward, then north through Bullard , Flint , Gresham , then into Tyler where it intersects US 69 .

  3. Archimedes's cattle problem - Wikipedia

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    Archimedes's cattle problem (or the problema bovinum or problema Archimedis) is a problem in Diophantine analysis, the study of polynomial equations with integer solutions. Attributed to Archimedes , the problem involves computing the number of cattle in a herd of the sun god from a given set of restrictions.

  4. Agricultural safety and health - Wikipedia

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    The agriculture industry is one of the most dangerous occupations and has led to thousands of deaths due to work-related injuries in the US. In 2011 the fatality rate for farmworkers was 7 times higher than that of all the workers in the private industry, a difference of 24.9 deaths for every 100,000 people as opposed to 3.5 deaths for every 100,000 people in the private industry. [4]

  5. The Farming Game - Wikipedia

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    The background for the game is Rohrbacher's "1,500 acre farm near Goldendale" in July 1979. The farm was facing bankruptcy and his wife was pregnant and had decided to quit her job. A friend suggested to Rohrbacher that he should invent a game like Monopoly, but based around the struggles of life as a farmer near the Yakima River, where they lived.

  6. Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program - Wikipedia

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    To be eligible for payments under DCP, owners, operators, landlords, tenants, or sharecroppers must: share in the risk of producing a crop on base acres on a farm enrolled in DCP, and be entitled to share in the crop available for marketing from the base acres or would have shared had a crop been produced; *annually report the use of the farm's cropland acreage;

  7. U.S. Farm Report - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Farm Report (USFR) is a weekly syndicated United States television news program focused on agriculture, presented in magazine format, which has a focus on agriculture and agribusiness. USFR is currently hosted by Tyne Morgan and is based in South Bend , Indiana , along with its daily companion series, AgDay .

  8. American farm discontent - Wikipedia

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    Farmers in high protest states faced high price variability due to the pattern of prices that was influenced by the railroad network that linked the states. Although, there is evidence that the drop in transportation costs caused farmers with suitable soils to diversify their crops in order to take advantage of relative farm gate prices. [7]

  9. Intensive animal farming - Wikipedia

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    Intensive animal farming, industrial livestock production, and macro-farms, [1] also known as factory farming, [2] is a type of intensive agriculture, specifically an approach to animal husbandry designed to maximize production while minimizing costs. [3]