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Farmers' Museum

It overlooks Otsego Lake and recreates rural life from the 19th century through exhibits and interactive workshops.


1933 Wisconsin milk strike

The cooperative milk pool attempted to coordinate their efforts with larger farm groups, specifically the National Farm Holiday Association and Wisconsin Farmers' Holiday Association.

Abbot Oliba

Oliba promoted the movement of Peace and Truce of God (Pau i treva), towards 1022 and in 1027 the agreement of this treaty with other bishops and noblemen took place in Toulouges (Roussillon) and was said that all, noblemen, knights, farmers and monks, agreed to make, days in which nobody could quarrel with anybody and in which the fugitives could take refuge in churches and places holy, sure of being protected and respected, some days every year, be days of Peace.

Adlkofen

The first Kindergarten existed between 1939 and 1944 for the children of the farmers during harvest season.

American Royal

The Future Farmers of America (now the National FFA Organization) was founded during the Royal and Kansas City's professional baseball team the Kansas City Royals derive their name in part from the Royal.

Architecture of Ilfracombe

The street facade, built in 1884 to designs by W H Gould, of the former Congregationalist Church is now 'The Lantern' community center, home of the Ilfracombe Farmers' Market.

Ardrossan, South Australia

The town was largely initiated by wheat farmers and wheat transporters in the late 19th century who needed infrastructure to ship their produce across the Gulf St Vincent to Port Adelaide.

Arion Band

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many U.S. town and cities had at least one community brass band, peopled by shopkeepers and farmers and kids; it was the era saluted in Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man.

Association of the German Farmers Associations

In February 1929 the "Green Front" was formed by the Association of Christian German Farmers Associations, many of its member organizations, the National Agricultural League, the German Agriculture Council (Deutsche Landwirtschafsrat) and the German Farmers' Party (Deutsche Bauernshaft).

Baraily

Recent development of interest for Rice Grain between farmers led to ample production of the product in the area.

Bharatiya Khet Mazdoor Union

BKMU is independent from both the main trade union central of CPI, the All India Trade Union Congress, as well as the farmers' organisation of CPI, the All India Kisan Sabha.

Brooks, Minnesota

Local farmers would process the milk from their own cows by removing the butterfat or cream, which was hauled in cream cans to the cheese factory, while the skim milk or whey was fed to hogs raised on the same farm.

Čakovečki mlinovi

The company's main plants are located in Čakovec, Donji Kraljevec, Oroslavje and Konjščina, all located in the north of the country, and its main wheat suppliers are farmers from the Međimurje County region.

Charles Rivière-Hérard

By the end of March 1844, a rebel army composed of peasants and farmers began to muster near the city of Les Cayes on the southwest peninsula.

Charolais cattle

In Sierra Nevada de Mérida, Venezuela, following the rural flight of farmers, many Charolais cattle were abandoned; they have survived in the wild feeding on Espeletia schultzii, a high altitude shrub.

Chartwell Dutiro

He used to play in Ashburton's Methodist Church Hall every Tuesday night where he led a Shona choir made up of local people, from farmers and teachers to business people, not to mention the landlady of the local B&B.

Claims Resolution Act of 2010

The act is a response to the Pigford v. Glickman case, where black farmers were found to have been discriminated against from 1983 to 1997 by the United States Department of Agriculture when applying for loans and assistants to start and maintain farms.

Crioulo Lageano

It is similar to the Franqueira breed (just 500 individuals, eight to ten farmers in Rio Grande do Sul), with the same origin, which coming from Franca, São Paulo, spread through the Brazilian territory.

Dirashe special woreda

Human Rights Watch interviewed farmers in 25 June 2009, who claimed that they had been dispossessed of their lands and forced out of their homes for supporting opposition parties.

Distinguished Service Medal of the National People's Army

On the reverse side are the state coat of arms of East Germany, surrounded with the words FÜR DEN SCHUTZ DER ARBEITER- UND-BAUERN- MACHT (FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE WORKERS-AND-FARMERS-POWER) surrounded by two branches of laurel.

Divine Chocolate

It was originally established in the UK in 1998 as a company limited by shares owned by the Kuapa Kokoo cocoa farmers' co-operative, the Fairtrade NGO Twin Trading and The Body Shop, with support from Christian Aid and Comic Relief.

Edina Mill

This was a direct result of the fact that prior to these mills, farmers had to haul their grain in horse-drawn wagons over long distances to the mills at Saint Anthony Falls along the Mississippi River.

Fairtrade certification

At the initiative of Mexican coffee farmers, the first fair trade labelling initiative, Stichting Max Havelaar, was launched in the Netherlands on November 15, 1988 by Nico Roozen, Frans van der Hoff and Dutch ecumenical development agency Solidaridad.

Farmers Valley, Pennsylvania

Farmers Valley is an unincorporated community in Keating Township, McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, between Coryville and Smethport.

Felix Pedro

Pedro was born April 16, 1858 to a family of subsistence farmers in the Apennine village of Trignano, Comune di Fanano and was the youngest of six brothers.

Forrest McDonald

McDonald and the late Grady McWhiney presented the "Celtic hypothesis" stating that the distinctiveness of Southern culture derives largely from the majority of the Southern population being descendants of Celtic herdsmen while the majority of the Northern population was the descendants of farmers.

Heinrich Vogtherr

As colonel of Hegauer farmers, he was involved in mid 1524 until the end (in July 1525) where they failed siege of cell (Radolfzell) on Lake Constance there.

Höchstädt an der Donau

The carnage of that battle was so horrific (over 20,000 men had died at the end of the day) that farmers are said to still dig up skulls from the fields today, as described in the poem After Blenheim, written by Robert Southey, which tells about children finding the skull of one of the "... many thousand men, said he, Were slain in that great victory"

Interhelpo

The Interhelpo was an industrial cooperative of workers and farmers (esperantists and idists) between 1923 and 1943, established for the special purpose of helping to build up socialism in Soviet Kyrgyzstan.

J. G. M. Ramsey

As early as 1825, Ramsey had proposed connecting Knoxville with the Atlantic Coast via railroad, which would have given the region's farmers better access to markets in Charleston.

James Pascoe Group

As of 2013, Farmers major offerings include Women's Fashion, Men's Fashion and Mercery, Lingerie, Serviced Comestics, Health & Beauty, Accessories, Children's, Kitchen and Tabletop, Small Appliances, Manchester, and Furniture.

Kurds in Syria

In other parts of the country during this period, Kurds became local chiefs and tax farmers in Akkar (Lebanon) and the Qusayr highlands between Antioch and Latakia in northwestern Syria.

Locmariaquer

Today, Locmariaquérois oyster farmers are cultivating Pacific oysters in the Gulf and River St Philibert.

Lucea, Jamaica

A Rural Agricultural Development Authority farming project along with resident farmers have been "supplying the hotel sector on a consistent basis" and "bring vegetables to the tables of its sophisticated guests", according to The Jamaican Observer.

Maraba coffee

The farmers hoped that by forming the association, they would increase revenue by selling directly to exporters in Kigali instead of through an intermediary transport company.

Marilyn Faye Parney

The second album titled "Unbridled Heart" was recorded in Vancouver, BC, Canada and produced by Mike Norman (multi-instrumentalist for recording artist Suzanne Gitzi) and featured performances by top performers as Tony Rudner (nominated Canadian Country Music Producer of the Year 1998 for past work with Farmers Daughter), Tom McKillup (recording artist Lisa Brokup) plus a guest performance by solo recording artist Gary Fjellgard.

Mursik

Among the common tree species used by farmers for milk treatment in production of mursik are Senna didymobotrya, Lippia kituiensis, Prunus africana and Olea europaea ssp.

NBFA

National Black Farmers Association, for African American farmers in the United States

Oliver Smedley

In opposition to Clement Attlee's Agriculture Act 1947, Smedley helped to found, and become Secretary of, the Farmers' and Smallholders' Association in 1947.

Organic India

Organic India works directly with marginal farmers in tribal villages, providing seeds, fertilizers, organic certification, and the assumption of risk in case of crop failure.

Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America

The Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America was formed by Robert L. Hill of Winchester, Arkansas, a black tenant farmer.

Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club

David Gordon Hines was responsible for the development of co-operatives in Tanganyika and Uganda, improving the living standards of farmers in their transition from subsistence farming to cash crops.

Soil Bank Program

The Soil Bank Program is a federal program (authorized by the Soil Bank Act, P.L. 84-540, Title I) of the late 1950s and early 1960s that paid farmers to retire land from production for 10 years.

St. Bartholomew's Church, Berchtesgaden

It named for Saint Bartholomew the Apostle (Bartholomäus in German), patron of alpine farmers and dairymen.

St. George Tabernacle

LDS leader Brigham Young then commissioned the construction of public works buildings in the area to assist the farmers.

Sumilao, Bukidnon

On March 2008, San Miguel and the Sumilao farmers signed a deal giving 50 hectares to the farmers.

Triklino

It was abandoned during the early 60s, when the government compensated the farmers in order to construct a large dam at a place known as "Kremasta".

William Houston

His parents, Archibald and Margaret Houston, were farmers who had emigrated to the then British colony from Ireland.


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