He said he needs more money from his cocoa crop to help feed his family.

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West Fertilizer is owned by Donald Adair, a fixture in the West, Tx. community who also owns Adair Grain and Adair Farms, which comprises crop production and cattle feed lots.

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In a practical sense, Dorf says, the law must be directed at the person engaging in economic behavior the motel owner preventing black travelers from checking in, or the commercial farmer growing wheat to feed his animals in violation of federal crop price-support regulations.

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Still, the group this week joined other animal producers in calling for a reduction in corn ethanol production mandates, saying pricing and availability of corn for feed is threatened by the combination of a small corn crop this year and the government mandate, which will use about four of every 10 bushels of corn.

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Filburn, a hapless Ohio farmer was ordered to destroy his wheat crop, which he grew on his own property to feed his own chickens, because it violated a federal law designed to limit wheat production and drive up prices.

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The farm said it was having to buy in the extra feed because of the the poor quality of last year's home-grown silage crop.

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Rep. Virginia Foxx, a North Carolina Republican, says giving up 20 percent of America's corn crop to make ethanol has unintended consequences, like spiking the cost of livestock feed.

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