Sentences with phrase «us wheat farmers»

Founded in 1970 by «Prince» Leonard George Casley as a protest over government quotas on wheat farmers, Hutt River is the oldest micronation in Australia.

Well - known individuals are Simon Fishman, a successful wheat farmer who sits in the Kansas Senate.

A friend and colleague of mine who happens to be a wheat farmer shared with me his real life experience with trying to compete against the Monsanto - driven corporate farms in this country.

Wheat farmers in particular worry about how tariffs would affect their market, which has gone through a turbulent stretch in recent years.

The five top corporations are presently involved in class - action suits brought by wheat farmers in Oklahoma and Texas who accuse them of rigging grain prices.

In the U.S., white wheat farmers were once concentrated in the Northwest.

Canada's wheat farmers are worried about where to store a bumper crop.

«As the agricultural community warned when the President made the announcement, withdrawing from TPP was shortsighted and unnecessary, and now US wheat farmers could take the hit,» he said.

DuPont patented Levitt's remarkable discovery in 1978 and four years later introduced its Glean herbicide to wheat farmers.

American wheat farmers and a few technology businesses were the only others substantively damaged.

And his first boyhood weapon was a Daisy air rifle, a prize he earned by selling garden seeds to wheat farmers.

The problem is that those former factory workers in Detroit do not move to Iowa and become wheat farmers.

* Please don't get too hung up on the specific example of wheat farmers, it could be any other sector of the economy.

Wheat farmers, for example, will endure.

In his 1967 write - up of his work in the premiere issue of Psychology Today, Milgram shared one particularly riveting anecdote from the first study — that of an envelope that made its way from a wheat farmer in Kansas to the target, a divinity student's wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with just two connections.

«Discovery should save wheat farmers millions of dollars.»

In a book published in 1971, India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs, she reported that farmers with larger landholdings, such as the wheat farmers in the country's north, benefited far more than small - scale rice farmers in the south and east, or landless labourers.

Resource - conserving cropping practices from WHEAT, such as more targeted use of nitrogen fertilizers or sowing wheat into untilled soils and crop residues, can raise wheat farmers» incomes while curbing greenhouse gas emissions, if widely adopted, he added.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) under UK aid, the DGGW project aims to strengthen the delivery pipeline for new, disease resistant, climate - resilient wheat varieties and to increase the yields of smallholder wheat farmers.

As follows, the problem for Kansas: Warmer winters are bad news for the wheat farmers» requirement for freezing temperatures to grow winter wheat, and during summer, warmer days rob Kansas of precious soil moisture, drying out valuable wheat crop.

On another front, Texas A&M's Unmanned Aerial Systems Project is providing a new perspective to help wheat farmers manage diseases and water stress, predict yield in crop - breeding programs, and measure livestock forage production.

An Australian wheat farmer established the company to positively impact global health by making the nutrition in chia available to everyone, every day.

In this western, cattlemen and wheat farmers tire of being bilked by a buyer with a monopoly on the only railroad in Texas and so endeavor to build their own town / railroad stop where sellers will receive a fair price for their goods.

The basics of trade is that something is worth more to one person than another; a wheat farmer has more wheat that they could possibly eat, and so it has no value other than what they can get by selling it, while an accountant will starve if they do not have any food and thus is willing to pay what the market demands.

Wheat farmer Tom Giesel (left), Land Institute founder Wes Jackson (center) and Tom Friedman discuss sustainable agriculture in the fields of Kansas.

They were very successful wheat farmers in Russia, and established satellite farms in Canada, the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma.

Rising production costs are squeezing Northwest wheat farmers, according to the Sustainable Industries Journal (SIJ).

Many Northwest wheat farmers turned to cooperatives, like Fleming's Shepherd's Grain coop in Washington, for the increased value their product certification programs can provide.

Wheat farmers in Sherman County who lease their land to wind developers receive annual royalty payments of between $ 2,000 and $ 4,000 for each turbine sited on their property.

Well, renewable energy development in the Northwest, and wind development in particular, can offer some much needed relief to Northwest wheat farmers and rural communities suffering from the falling profitability of their traditional farm - based economies.

On top of these already high costs, rising costs for fertilizer and other costs of production are putting the squeeze on already thin profit margins for the Northwest's wheat farmers.

In a 2009 issue of Precision Farmer Magazine, Montana wheat farmer Steven Swank described the benefits of a souped - up GPS called «real - time kinematic» (RTK) satellite navigation.

The biggest benefit to a different kind of wholesale system (besides consumers looking for a wider variety in their baked goods) would be to wheat farmers, who've seen revenues plummet on the global grain exchange.

The U.S. embassy in Beijing reports that Chinese wheat farmers in some areas are now pumping from a depth of 300 meters, or nearly 1,000 feet.

Not exact matches

There is, unfortunately, no getting around the fact that the government will need to spend even more money on farmers than it does today if it wants to save the industry, whether it's for developing a perennial wheat, funding a home - grown advertising campaign or investing more into making car parts from plants.

But increasingly farmers also sell biomass — the residue left over after crops like corn and wheat are harvested — to companies developing fuel from organic material.

Some big brains believe Barnes is right: Farmers Edge recently raised nearly $ 60 million in equity investments to help support aggressive international expansion, and the company has recruited former Monsanto, DuPont and Canadian Wheat Board executives into its fold.

Twenty - four people work in Stinger's 41,000 - square - foot facility, a metal building that shares its property with wheat fields tended by a local farmer.

A WA oat and wheat grower has become the first farmer to lose his organic certification after his crop was contaminated by a neighbour's genetically modified canola crop.

The fourth - generation farmer grows corn and wheat on his 10,000 acres and says tracking progress is extremely important to the farming community, and tech solutions are simplifying the job.

That's five to 10 times as much as what our farmers in the Midwest are currently making for growing GMO wheat, corn and soy.

After participating in the Y Combinator tech accelerator — FarmLogs was the first farming - focused startup ever accepted into the program — the duo started marketing their data science tools to farmers growing row crops such as corn, wheat and soybeans.

He acknowledges that this is a point of contention — there are Wheat Board loyalists out there who will highlight cases of farmers suffering in the wake of deregulation.

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

In the U.S., Lawson says high wheat prices have sparked a vicious cycle that is skewing farmers» planting decisions, and driving prices on other crops higher, too.

The changes made last August mean farmers are paid cash for wheat and barley when they haul it to the elevator instead of receiving a series of payments over roughly 18 months.

In 2012, western Canadian farmers seeded 21 million of acres of canola, surpassing the acreage for wheat (at 17 million) for the first time.

That is partly why in the recent throne speech, the federal government promised to introduce legislation «to ensure that western farmers have the freedom to sell wheat and barley on the open market.»

It has also served as a long - standing source of western alienation, largely because farmers in Eastern Canada and most of British Columbia are exempt from the wheat board's authority.

Why did Australia's farmers block the float of AWB Ltd (the former Australian Wheat Board)?