Sentences with phrase «acre farm on»

Chege Mwangi smiles as he surveys his one - acre farm on the high slopes of Kenya's Abardares Hills.

As Weber stood at the edge of her family's 100 - acre farm on a recent visit, her first in decades, memories of her birthplace came flooding back.

Aided by loans from relatives, he bought a 20 - acre farm on Kamilche Point, a few miles northwest of Olympia.

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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.

For perspective on the potential business opportunity, consider that Canadian farmers exported $ 45 million worth of hemp seed to the U.S. in 2016, making as much as $ 300 per acre, per season, farming industrial hemp.

Located not far from Downtown Detroit, Willerer launched his urban farming business on just one acre of land.

The FDA's inspection report «is based on raw observations and in some cases lack proper context,» Gene Grabowski, an outside spokesman for Rose Acre Farms, said in an email.

The Northern State Hospital for the Mentally Ill was established in 1909 on a 700 - acre farm.

The fund, which is based in San Francisco, owns two farms on 250 acres in Oregon.

Set on a 4,200 - acre estate at the foothills of Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, Blackberry Farm is the perfect place to hibernate for a winter weekend.

Wölffer Estate Vineyard, founded in 1988 on a 55 - acre former potato farm, was the passion project of Christian Wölffer, a German - born venture capitalist who tragically died in 2008 at age 70 in a swimming accident off the Brazilian coast.

Jacob Uhlenkott, an adviser to his family's Grangeville, Idaho - based steel fabricator and 5,000 - acre wheat farm, is concerned that China's proposed tariffs on agricultural products will hurt his firm's bottom line.

Together, with the help of four strapping sons, they still run the family farm: 27 cultivated acres of cranberries on 350 acres of land.

South Pacific Plantation Management Limited, a business in Efate Island, Vanuatu, has started to accept bitcoin for one acre farm - lets on Malekula, a South Pacific island which is part of the Republic of Vanuatu.

«It is challenging to put pulses in knowing that returns are not going to be as profitable,» said grower Morgan Nunweiler, who plans to slash his lentil acres in half and plant more wheat on his 3,000 - acre farm hear Rosetown, Saskatchewan.

This had been a farming family, tilling some 20 acres on which they could sustain themselves with several cows, some food crops and a small amount of coca.

A Hays County family left the maintenance of their 30 - acre farm, including eight or nine milk cows, to a «slightly addled» grandmother and three pre-teenaged children while they roved northward on a cattle drive.

So in 1999, I traded chauffeured cars and dinners with ambassadors for cowboy boots and life on a 240 - acre farm in the Rocky Mountain Northwest region of Montana, not far from the university where I now teach part time.

Increasingly agronomists like the UK's Jules Pretty are demonstrating that yields are highest not on industrial - scale farms, but on five - acre and ten - acre spreads where intense concentration can be brought to bear on each square meter of cropland.

It was strange driving down Highway 278, past dozens of Baptist churches and farm supply stores to find an austere Benedictine monastery sitting on 180 acres of wooded land.

McCasland Farms Inc. grows pecans on more than 1,000 acres, and through Pecan Producers Inc., he sells the harvests of other growers.

For example, why am I going to order nettle that comes from Croatia when my friend has an acre of it on her farm?

«Wine for Every Person» In addition to its own property, the company farms and operates 2,500 acres of land on behalf of other vineyards.

Our Community Aid Program has restored thousands of acres of rainforest by farming only with shade grown farms, and planted our own coffee on our own organic farms.

James and Ida Burkholder grew up on farms in rural Pennsylvania and started their own farm five years ago with land purchased by Ida's father that bordered the 333 - acre Rodale Institute research farm.

On the last day of travel, the delegates visited Campos de Gia Links, a 2,965 - acre Japanese - owned farm that produces canola for oil to be sold in Argentina.

Lance puts soil first on his 300 - acre farm in Biggs, California, where he grows intensely flavorful Biodynamic Organic Short - Grain Brown Rice and Biodynamic Organic Sushi Rice for Lundberg Family Farms.

And while this was the life we crafted and one that gave us a lot of satisfaction to build, it's sort of mind - blowing to stay in a yurt on ninety - six acres, a tiny cabin in Pray, MT, a horse farm in Wisconsin, and realize that you can strip away a whole lot of the stuff and space and live really, really well.

In addition to their abundant organic crops, Hill Top Farms also offers a tour of the 30 acre farm which consists of a trip through the horse barn where participants get a up close, hands on education about equine care including feeding and grooming one or more of the nine resident horses, feeding the chickens and petting the goats and a hayride out to the fields where you get to see and taste organic vegetables in production and learn about how things grow and why organics is important.

His father, Jerry, started a dairy farm on the current Columbia Farms property in 1959 with only 90 acres, one milk tank and 35 cows.

The restaurant and inn sit on just one small part of Harris Farm's 17,000 - acre agricultural property.

Rose Acre Farms has approximately 25 million chickens, 85 percent of which on average lay an egg daily at one of the company's farms in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Missouri, Georgia or North CaroFarms has approximately 25 million chickens, 85 percent of which on average lay an egg daily at one of the company's farms in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Missouri, Georgia or North Carofarms in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa Missouri, Georgia or North Carolina.

Forsman's egg operation sits on an 80 - acre home farm, where the Forsman family also grows and harvests corn and soybeans for chicken feed.

The farms produce crops on 8,000 acres in Idaho and Utah.

RPE is the agribusiness sales and marketing arm of the Wysocki Family of Companies, a fully integrated network of businesses that also consists of Wysocki Produce Farm Inc., a multi-vegetable growing operation on about 13,000 acres in Wisconsin, and Paragon Potato Farms Inc., its flagship, state - of - the - art packaging company that serves Wysocki Produce Farm along with 15 other growers.

The partners knew that many competitors did not measure up to the high - quality SB&B produced on its 4,700 - acre farm.

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The average kona coffee farm is about five acres, but the Kona coffee trees featured on the tour had significantly larger beans.

CATIE has 135 dairy cattle that live on an exceptional 180 - acre (73 - hectare) farm.

Every day for the past three decades, Sue and Tom Flowers have risen at 4.45 am to begin milking their 500 Holstein Friesian cows on their 370 - acre dairy farm near Buxton, Derbyshire.

A KPMG due diligence report on the plan noted that: «Aerem has authority for sale of real estate agreements to acquire 66 dairy farms, in Western Victoria for a total price of $ 312.8 million — 45,404 acres [18,374 hectares] in total.»

(Delegate booking form — Click here) Now in its eleventh year, this one - day event on Green Acres Farm, Kemberton, -LSB-...]

On the south side of the farm, 200 acres is set aside as a natural forest preserve to conserve natural forestland and wildlife corridors

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She grew up on an 88 - acre farm in central Massachusetts with a family who had a «love affair with food» and only became aware of the problem of food allergies when her husband and company co-Founder almost died on the couple's fourth date from an anaphylactic reaction to tree nuts.

• Wagon Tour: Come tour our 333 - acre farm while riding on our covered wagon pulled by tractor!

HSUS undercover investigators have exposed the suffering of hens in battery cages on factory farms run by many of the nation's egg companies, including Cal - Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, Rose Acre and Rembrandt Foods, the second - and third - largest egg producers, Kreider Farms and Costco supplier Hillandale Ffarms run by many of the nation's egg companies, including Cal - Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, Rose Acre and Rembrandt Foods, the second - and third - largest egg producers, Kreider Farms and Costco supplier Hillandale FFarms and Costco supplier Hillandale FarmsFarms.

As of December 2009, there were 27,610 Rainforest Alliance Certified coffee farms around the world with 305,383 ha (754,618 acres) of land under certification (not all in production... this represents all the land on certified farms).

Vertically Integrated RPE is the agribusiness sales and marketing arm of the Wysocki Family of Companies, a fully integrated network of businesses that also consists of Wysocki Produce Farm Inc., a multivegetable growing operation on about 13,000 acres in Wisconsin, and Paragon Potato Farms Inc., its flagship, state - of - the - art packaging company that serves Wysocki Produce Farm along with 15 other growers.

Our staff is on their hands and knees across a 10 to 15 acre paddock so depending on the crop, labour costs are 30 to 40 per cent higher than for conventional farms.