Sentences with phrase «about farming in»

You know very little about farming in the US if you don't know about the Conservation Reserve Program which is a federal program signed into law by President Reagan almost 30 years ago.

Explore ways to reduce our impact on the environment by thinking about farming in a new direction... up!

The woman who put former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on the spot about farming in a Democratic town hall this week says she is frustrated that agriculture has been largely ignored among the presidential hopefuls.

Often times, when you talk about farming in Erie County, people think about Eden and communities in the southtowns, but here in the northeast section of the county we are not without expansive farmland and long - established ranches and horse farms.

The awkward thing is that he seems the perfect fit for Post-Wenger Arsenal (never mind his mouthing off about farms in Argentina) he has Premier league experience and Arsenal have Champions league experience.

After reading about the farm in a magazine and having been told they make a delicious toasted (goats) cheese sandwiches, my f...

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In the late 1870s, the family moved from Pennsylvania to Kansas and purchased a farm about 40 miles from recently incorporated Wichita.

The man chosen to head the photographic unit was Roy Stryker, head of OWI's domestic photographic department, ex-manager of the Farm Security Administration's group of photographers who produced about 200,000 photographs, many of which are now in the Library of Congress.

Michael Barbaro of the New York Times, for instance, had this to say about Trump's social marketing via Twitter: «Mr. Trump has mastered Twitter in a way no candidate for president ever has, unleashing and redefining its power as a tool of political promotion, distraction, score - settling and attack — and turning a 140 - character task that other candidates farm out to young staff members into a centerpiece of his campaign.»

At Kent Erickson's farm near Irma, Alta., (two hours southeast of Edmonton), about an inch of rain has been steadily falling every day in recent weeks, which has been helpful to his wheat crops.

But in the third wave — which is about disrupting important aspects of our lives like healthcare, farming, and education — the domain expertise will be important again.

With a rapidly expanding farming operation in Campbellford, Ont., about a two - hour drive northeast of Toronto, Goldin and his brothers, Darren and Ryan, are part of the fast - growing entomophagy movement: bug - eating advocates who aim to move creepers, crawlers and flitters into the mainstream food supply.

For her feature article published today about the growth of the edible insect business, Carol Toller got to tour Next Millennium Farms, located in Campbellford, Ontario, and North America's largest producer of edible insects.

In fact, networking is more about «farming» than it is about «hunting.»

On Monday, developer The Irvine Company and startup Advanced Microgrid Solutions announced that they plan to build large battery farms — each the size of about five parking spaces — at buildings in Irvine, Calif..

The other was about getting a call from a «Farmer John» in Illinois to design a new logo for his farm.

David Schwabauer, a fourth - generation farmer in the county, said overtures by companies that want to drill new wells amid his avocado and lemon groves are prompting difficult conversations about how to manage the family farm.

Together we visited a farm community in Rusave where about 10,000 people live.

Seth Goldman was very clear in explaining that the peppermint leaves he buys from I «tchik Herbal Tea are not grown on the Crow Reservation but are bought from still another source, and that he can't make claims about the labor conditions under which the company's herbs and teas are grown, because he hasn't visited the farms.

The Federal government has sought to allay community concerns about tree farms - which have jumped 20 per cent in five years in Western Australia to reach almost 400,000 hectares - releasing a report on the impact of timber plantation.

Susan Gibbs turned her part - time hobby into a going business when she financed her yarn company, Juniper Moon Farm, with CSA investments: Members pay $ 175 per share in return for about 1,800 yards of yarn a year.

One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

Just as demand has jumped, stocks of lamb and mutton in New Zealand have fallen by about a fifth between 2007 and 2012 as farmers converted land into more lucrative dairy farms.

The company released a short film this week featuring a Tim Burtonesque scarecrow who has a moral crisis about his part in factory farming.

As a whole, those counties were about 1 - in - 5 votes cast in the state and are a mix of the factories around Youngstown, the farms down the Ohio River Valley, former coal country in the south and into the Cincinnati suburbs.

In 2010, one of its properties, Fern Road Farm, avoided using about 19,600 pounds of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers and 595 pounds of pesticides — while boosting revenue some 40 percent.

Consumer interest in local, organic agriculture boomed, and concerns about factory farming galvanized writers like Michael Pollan, Wayne Roberts and Raj Patel.

It's odd in that it kicks things off by asking you some weirdly specific questions about whether you earn income through farming, estates, or corporate partnerships.

The first time I interviewed him, in 2009, he spoke excitedly about a plan for a new organic farm that the Stop hoped to build in the northern part of the city.

There is an article from 2004 in Der Spiegel that talks about my father a bit after he moved to Zambia to start farming again.

Investments in farms — both traditional and organic — yielded returns of about 9 percent in 2010, according to the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries.

(His sister, Susie, still lives in Omaha and focuses on her philanthropic work; his brother, Howard, owns a farm in Decatur, Ill.) Above all, the key thing about Peter Buffett is that he appears to be absolutely and completely normal.

The new solar farm will provide power to Sierra Pacific Power Co.'s electric grid that serves Apple's data center and when completed will generate about hours 43.5 million kilowatt of clean energy a year, Apple said in a statement.

One of the biggest surprises in «Avengers: Age of Ultron» occurs about halfway through the film when our heroes break away from the action for a more light - hearted family - centric scene on a farm.

One case I've written about is the «supply management» boards in certain farming sectors.

There's just one thing standing in the way: cows, or to be more precise, about 12,700 dairy farms.

About 80 % of the antibiotics sold in the US every year are for farm animals.

FORT WORTH, Texas — In a story April 24 about pecan growers, The Associated Press erroneously reported the size of a pecan farm near Granbury, Texas.

I grew up on a farm in Cornwell, Conn. and after majoring in environmental science in college, I spent several years leading high school students on expeditions into the woods to teach them about the environment.

I didn't know about factory farming until I was in college.

Case Farms managers said that the lines in Canton run about 35 birds a minute, but workers at other Case Farms plants told me that their lines run as fast as 45 birds a minute.

Canopy Growth Corp's (WEED.TO) Tweed Farms Inc subsidiary expects to spend at least C$ 25 million ($ 21 million) to upgrade the property, a flower farm it purchased for about C$ 9 million in cash and equity, with work including the installation of security cameras and fences due to start in October.

As much as Trump complains about Mexico taking jobs away from Americans, the truth is that NAFTA opened up the markets in Mexico to American goods to such an extent that most of the gasoline in Mexico (70 % now) comes from the U.S.. Most of Mexico's corn and poultry and many other farmed goods come from the U.S. also, as U.S. industrial farming was already far more efficient than Mexico's small scale farms.

Roshe Wong, business development manager at Sky Greens, told us about how they have overcome the challenges in the smart farming opportunity space and on what the future of urban vertical farming looks like to him.

As we have talked about above, State Farm offers the best renters insurance rates in Florida, based on the sample house and homeowner we analyzed.

Six reasons Dogwood's director of community organizing is feeling hopeful about beating Kinder Morgan My sons and I pass the Kinder Morgan tank farm on our way to school in the morning and on our way home in the evening.

Choose your own path to happiness by owning your own frozen yogurt franchise and making your community a happier place If you've ever found yourself unable to face one more gray day in a cubicle farm working toward somebody else's dream, you may have daydreamed about owning your own business.

In fact, we found GEICO to be about $ 200 cheaper than State Farm for auto insurance premiums.

Beef farms make up about one - quarter of all farms in Canada, second only to field crops, while the dollar value of live cattle exports ranks just behind spring wheat, canola and durum exports.

Last April, Grassland Dairy Products of Greenwood told about 75 farms in Wisconsin that it was no longer buying their milk after a U.S. - Canada trade dispute led Grassland to lose its Canadian business.