• The CAP began operating in 1962, with the then European Community intervening to buy farm output when the market price fell below an agreed target level.

    BBC: MEPs urge reform of the CAP

  • They made enough money to buy a farm where the young Ali developed an appetite for cricket, reading all he could about Don Bradman and other heroes of the era.

    BBC: Kingmaker: Dr Ali Bacher

  • Elements of performance have been going on at the site for years, but if the trustees manage to buy the 29 acres and derelict farm buildings, they will create a permanent centre combining music, drama, poetry, dance, and exhibitions of local craft, she said.

    BBC: Land where the princes' palace is believed to have stood

  • But that was long before Hanes began moving much of its production offshore, and before the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (under which the tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in damages for harming people's health), the leveraged buy-out of RJR by a private-equity firm, the elimination of federal farm price support for tobacco and decades of anti-smoking advertising.

    ECONOMIST: North Carolina builds on the legacy of the golden leaf

  • Also note that the cash yield on a farm is 4% to 8% if you buy it right, considerably above the yield on stocks.

    FORBES: For down-to-earth investors, farmland can yield rewards.

  • For six months out of the year we buy our vegetables from an organic farm 20 miles away.

    FORBES: Green Greens versus Red Greens

  • 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.

    BBC: Acton Hall lambs, Suffolk

  • But Zynga's game analysts found players were interacting with the animals far more than designers had expected, moving them around the farm and using in-game currency to buy them.

    WSJ: How Big Data Is Changing the Whole Equation for Business

  • "I realized that sitting in Lagos was a problem: You contract to buy two weeks forward, and the guy brings the cashews 600 miles from the farm gate, " says Verghese.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The first phase of the solar mission stipulated that solar farm operators using silicon wafers should only buy made-in-India versions of this equipment but allowed them to import other forms of technology, including thin-film cells.

    WSJ: India Plans Subsidies to Boost Solar-Power Sector

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