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		<title>Growing Difficulties: Kansas farmers caught between good times and bad</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Daniels says there are few things he loves more than a challenge, and this year he&#8217;s getting just that. He stands to lose more than $100,000 on his farm near Topeka, Kansas. It&#8217;s a story that began a year ago, strangely, in one of the most profitable growing seasons farmers there had ever seen. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After Tobacco: In Appalachia, Farmers Hope the Future is Organic Vegetables</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This still looks like tobacco country. Tractors still slow traffic on the roads. An autumn celebration is still called the &#8220;Tobacco Festival.&#8221; And family farms still have the region&#8217;s trademark tall barns where the harvest&#8217;s giant green leaves once cured in the rafters until they were rusty brown and ready for market. But despite decades [...]]]></description>
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