Sentences with phrase «as farmers incorporate»

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Each season is marked with a reflection by farmer Lora Lea or her husband Rick about life on the farm as well as knowledge of sustainability practices that can be incorporated, no matter the location, or lack of farm.

It is considered as a holistic and dynamic approach of incorporating organic and permaculture farming practices including crop rotation, conservation tillage, composting, cover crops, pasture cropping, and mobile animal shelters to increases the farmer's income and food production.

In fact, many farmers in developing countries perceive organic agriculture as a product meeting the demand of industrialized country consumers, and incorporated into the systems of trade and distribution that prevail in conventional agriculture.

We spend our time getting together with friends (cooking farmer's - market - inspired meals, often incorporating eggs laid by our two backyard chickens); traveling near (we love the North Cascades) and far (we count trips to Morocco and South Africa as our favorites).

Simply incorporating the gene, known as Bt, into a plant gives it resistance to pests, without requiring periodic spraying by the farmer.

Farmers in Northern Thailand, through sustainable upland farming practices, have become commercialy successful by incorporating environmentally - sound farming practices as well as best rice varieties suitable to upland environment.

SAN 2017 incorporates a number of important mitigation strategies, such as Climate - Smart Agriculture, continuous improvement, and important deforestation criteria — all of which seek to improve and challenge the farms and farmers.

Passage of SB 50 in the Kentucky legislature also holds considerable interest to many American businesses that incorporate hemp into their products, as it would potentially allow these companies to purchase hemp from American farmers and processors, rather than rely on imports from Canada and China.

During the workshop, delegates assessed different ways to incorporate seasonal climate forecasts into farmer decision making, using several African countries as examples.

As organic agriculture is the fastest growing agricultural sector — the majority of new farmers are choosing to farm using organic practices and organic farm management offers a long list of environmental benefits — I am hopeful Congress will incorporate Farm Bill policies that allow for continued and supported growth of the industry.