Sentences with phrase «agricultural interests with»

Historically, animal health in Minnesota has been guided by agricultural interests with an eye to animal production science (emphasis on efficiency to achieve maximum profits or minimal costs to an industry).

The AAFCO represents agricultural interests with products to sell - not the interests of pet owners, veterinarians or pets.

Not exact matches

Accordingly, governments cooperated with international agricultural interests to enable them to create large plantations.

Such certifications (PGI) by the European Union promote the development of specific rural regions and populations, which are related to agricultural products with special quality characteristics and protect the interests of both growers and consumers.

The department works with DFAT to ensure the interests of agricultural industries are taken into account in the development of Australian negotiating positions.

In the 1970s, the company's interests shifted to worldwide trading in agricultural, marine and food products in combination with the GraceKennedy organization by forming Terfloth & Kennedy Ltd..

In addition to providing the government and Guyanese farmers with market and pricing information, administrative and financial services, and marketing programs, GMC also hosts events to promote Guyanese agricultural interests.

The head of Australia's largest agricultural lender, National Australia Bank's Khan Horne, says the rural property market is running hotter than ever before because of strong fundamentals and low interest rates but, with a royal commission into banking, he is calling on tighter qualifications for anyone lending to farmers to avoid failures and receiverships that have tainted the sector.

Further, the commissioners will transplant surplus animals in a wild state on a new range provided the area furnishes sufficient food and that the elk will not compete with already existing wild or domestic range animals or be a detriment to agricultural interests.

It takes issue with the degree to which USDA protects the interests of the agricultural industry, first and foremost.

For example, MPs with an agricultural background are less Eurosceptic, as agricultural interests are likely to lose out from Brexit because of a loss of CAP payments and EU migrant labour.

Bacon visited Tanzania on a Voluntary Service Overseas parliamentary placement to work with the Agricultural Non State Actors Forum (ANSAF), a relatively new body designed to promote the interests of farmers, particularly smallholders, who make up 80 per cent of the population of Tanzania.

Erie County Legislator and Agricultural and Farmland Protection Board Chairman Dino Fudoli, R - Lancaster, invites anyone with an interest in farms, farmland and food production in Erie County to participate in one of three scheduled public forums planned this summer throughout the county.

The space isn't only confined to pharma either, as science company DuPont also formed alliances with Lithuania's Vilnius University and Caribou Biosciences, with a specific interest in plant breeding and agricultural applications.

«[A] fter years of wrangling over how to fix the statute, in which officials sought to balance the interests of scientists, the agricultural industry, and biotech firms with those of indigenous populations demanding compensation for traditional knowledge, Brazil President Dilma Rousseff last week signed a law that is raising hopes among scientists.

An African - American scientist from inner - city Chicago, Hamilton credits the Chicago High School for Agricultural Sciences with inspiring his interest in food science.

Increasing water scarcity over time and across regions, coupled with short - and long - term catastrophic droughts in certain locations, have contributed to increasing interest in water conservation in the various water - consuming sectors — urban, rural, agricultural, and environmental, Dinar explained.

The researchers are also interested in coating the biofilms with enzymes that catalyze the breakdown of cellulose, which could be useful for converting agricultural waste to biofuels.

Interest in the potato genome is primarily agricultural; scientists hope that with the help of the draft genome unveiled in 2009, they can breed potatoes that are, for instance, drought - tolerant or more nutritious.

But the interest is there, and not just from the medical world: Agricultural experts have spoken with the Berkeley researchers to see if their technology could be used remotely to detect crop diseases.

Those ideas are likely to be unpopular with the state's agricultural and industrial interests.

Metz's video depicts the use of policy networks by groups with diverse interests — governmental bodies, agricultural groups, industrial associations, and environmentalists — to achieve effective water protection policies.

The CNAG takes part in genome sequencing and analysis projects in areas as cancer genetics, rare disorders, host - pathogen interactions, the preservation of endangered species, evolutionary studies and improvement of species of agricultural interest, in collaboration with universities, hospitals, research centers and companies in the sector of biotechnology and pharma.

While most farms find that it's in their best interest to safeguard fresh produce and keep up with good agricultural practices, errors happen, and mistakes fall through the cracks, especially since federal regulation has been slow to enforce any wide - reaching inspections that would help prevent and shut down virulent strains.

Conventional arguments that promote plant - based diets as the most beneficial for health, the environment, and feeding the world neglect to address the way in which those diets are compatible with the agricultural policies that benefit large agricultural corporations and undermine the interests of farmers.

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To cooperate with veterinary and agricultural organizations and regulatory agencies of government to encourage the adoption of such technical and managerial programs and policies as will promote health and productivity of small ruminants, to increase public and government awareness of the expertise of small ruminant practitioners and involvements of AASRP and elevate the standards of practice for the public interest.

This is hardly surprising given that puppy mills are regulated by agricultural departments at the state and federal levels, and agribusiness, which sides with the mills, is a powerful lobby and sees every concession to humane interests as the thin end of the wedge for broader, animal - friendly reform in farming.

Famous for its artichokes, the entrance to Benicarlo is deceptively plain, as this fishing and agricultural town has good beaches, an interesting old quarter with some notable examples of fine architecture and...

It is unusually multi-discplinary, drawing on rice paddy archaeology, agricultural history, charcoal records and various other areas, and is a dandy example of real science in action: a) Interesting hypotheses, with some loose ends or inconsistencies.

Then, with their freely - chosen support, the sky is the limit: reallocate sections of the defense budget to selective nation - building; change agricultural policy to favor sustainable home - grown food where possible in the interests of health and national security; create programs that encourage Americans to help with sanitation, agriculture and birth control in developing countries; slice away the parts of government that get in the way (thereby freeing up the budget); protect citizen and consumer's rights; strictly regulate pollution; shut down destabilizing financial schemes, and eventually earn enough respect in the world that we're not the only ones on the bandwagon.

With temperate - zone countries seeing possible agricultural benefits through 2050 under the 2007 assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, even as conditions grow tougher near the Equator, how much does self - interest trump broader responsibilities?

If Australia's experience in developing domestic offsets is anything to go by, the transformation to a low carbon economies in line with avoiding the 2degree guardrail will take a back seat to political compromises with intransigent agricultural and coal interests.

Similarly, according to the Independent People's Tribunal of the World Bank Group in India, the role of the World Bank in reducing state subsidies, reduced access to low interest loans for the poor and the «opening up of the Indian economy to an uneven playing field in international trade in agricultural commodities» resulted in the dramatic phenomenon of India's infamous farmer suicides, with an estimated 137,000 farmers killing themselves due to their inability to pay off their loans once their crops failed (for more information, see here and this interview with Indian environmental activist Vandana Shiva as well).

More interesting (to me, at least) she also said that the USDA believed that the program just didn't fit in with its Agricultural Marketing Service division — which is partially funded by fees collected from growers.

Bick Law's legal team has represented the California Farm Bureau and other agricultural interests as well as other businesses and municipalities concerned with water and natural resources.

The threat of such distortive regulation may be substantial, especially in areas where regulators interact with «public interest clients» that have an incentive to demonize disfavored activities by private commercial actors — one example being the health and safety regulation of agricultural chemicals.

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However, when the Report comes to deal with farming interests, it is far more circumspect and the recommends merely that government should consult with agricultural lobby groups with a view to establishing changes.