Sentences with phrase «as farm land»

For instance, some zoning restrictions will prevent property being utilized as farm land.

District Heights is a small city that was originally used as farm land.

District Heights is a small city that was originally used as farm land.

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As urban sprawl encroaches on the world's arable land, and environmental disasters send food prices soaring, innovators are seeking to take agriculture off the farm.

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.

But as happened in the U.S., the price of this asset could go into reverse and cause negative equity to emerge in farm quotas and land.

As a reputable capital provider and land investment partner, HCI Ventures works closely with farmers and the farming community to support the sustainable growth and livelihood of agriculture in Western Canada.

They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism.

This does not just include farming opportunities, but it includes spinoff industries such as textiles, food, brewing, bio fuel, bio plastics, remediation of land, and medicine.

With an international reputation as a leader in design and performance, Degelman manufactures a broad range of farm equipment, including rock removal, heavy harrows, land rollers and livestock machinery.

A year into the project, the weedy field has a compost heap full of organic waste from the kitchen; a growing orchard with biblical fruit trees including a fig and an apple; a Havdalah circle where visitors and residents of the farm gather weekly for a religious ceremony marking the end of Shabbat; and a shmitta area — a part of the land that is allowed to lie fallow for one year out of every seven, as commanded in the Torah.

He wished he could work but his feet were so disfigured as a result of leprosy that he couldn't farm the land and provide for his family.

As a result, about 90 percent of the land cultivated by Jewish settlers is irrigated, as opposed to only 3 percent of the land farmed by PalestinianAs a result, about 90 percent of the land cultivated by Jewish settlers is irrigated, as opposed to only 3 percent of the land farmed by Palestinianas opposed to only 3 percent of the land farmed by Palestinians.

we are no longer servants but friends, we are no longer exiles but home builders, we are no longer fighting but farming, we are no longer orphans but family, we are no longer meant for the brickyard but for the Promised Land, we are no longer broken but we are mended and healed and whole, we are no longer wanderers but we are the ones who belong, with just as much a right to Love and to grace and to redemption as every one who draws breath from the breath of God.

OMG Even our foods are day by day became more artificial to face increasing market demand rather than increasing farm lands and production globally to assist avoiding the famine and that way they created jobs, hopes and fed with out being effected by global changes as a hungry man is an angry man!

Now that most of the world is necessarily turning its back on the soil, to start one's own business has replaced that fundamental human urge to farm one's own land — it is an expression of the natural creativity in man, and as such a profoundly moral impulse.

Yahweh was the owner of the land and the farmers his lessees.136 Therefore, farming that abuses soil is bad farming as it is inconsistent with the true spirit of farming itself.137

As land once used for subsistence farming is transferred to plantations growing food for export, the GNP is likely to rise, but the ability of ordinary people to feed themselves declines.

For example, the land - grant universities that were established to promote agriculture quickly left farmers behind, and even as they advanced research programs in the service of science and technology they contributed to the demise of farming as a way of life.

Deseret Management Corp., the company through which the church holds almost all its commercial as - sets, is one of the largest owners of farm and ranch land in the country, including 49 for - profit parcels in addition to the Deseret Ranch.

But if we put more value on the products from the land, then some form of farming will be chosen, as it has been chosen in the past.

For generations the Israelites clung, as it were, by their eyebrows to a small section of the hill country of Ephraim amid bitter enemies — Ammonites and Moabites, to the east; the Philistines invading the seacoast lands to the west; the Amorites still possessing a score of strong towns and the farm lands around them.

As the hitherto protected agricultural sector of the South is, in compliance with the requirements of the GATT Final Act, opened up to imports (mainly from the North) and as land laws are revised to facilitate corporate farming, there will inevitably be large - scale displacement of such communitieAs the hitherto protected agricultural sector of the South is, in compliance with the requirements of the GATT Final Act, opened up to imports (mainly from the North) and as land laws are revised to facilitate corporate farming, there will inevitably be large - scale displacement of such communitieas land laws are revised to facilitate corporate farming, there will inevitably be large - scale displacement of such communities.

On Sunday, October 7, as the United States began at last its air strikes against the Taliban, I was on an airplane, more than twenty thousand feet above the Midwestern plains» that height from which the square - edged farms and checkerboarded fields seem not quite real: a toy land, a counterpane spread across a giant's bed, a fantasy.

As agricultural productivity decreases, farmers who are desperate to feed their families often turn to cutting down trees to sell for cash, or to clear land for farming.

Alix Heilman, a sales associate at Mercaris, notes that this growth trend is likely to continue, particularly given the organic acreage growth programs that have been launched by companies such as General Mills, which has vowed to add 3,000 acres of organic farming land to its source pool over the next three years.

Transitioning to sustainable farming methods can take years, and often causes temporary losses in yield as the farmers and the land adjust.

While APHIS maintains that contamination is unlikely, they contradict their own conclusion by determining that glyphosate tolerant alfalfa deregulation will lead to a shift to larger farms as alfalfa producers seek more land to avoid contamination.

The Lyman family has been farming in Connecticut since it purchased its first parcel of land in 1741, and Lyman is part of the eighth generation of family ownership of the land that is today known as Lyman Orchards, which now cover more than 1,100 acres.

«We're gathering larger tracts of land and preserving them in conservancy to maintain as agricultural farm land,» Dr. King points out.

After taking a look at Lion Kona beans processing equipment and drying porch, the tour moved to farming land in Hawaii is leased from the school district, which was granted ownership of more than 365,000 acres of land in 1883 as part of a bequest from Princess Bernice Pauahi, the last royal descendant of the Kamehameha line.

As part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradatioAs part of the CSO panel we advocated for organic agriculture as a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradatioas a means of farming that increases the resilience of soils to both water stress and nutrient loss and which contributes to combating desertification by preventing soil erosion and land degradation.

The plants grown are high quality and do not consume the same resources as farming on land.

Olam, which is backed by sovereign wealth fund Temasek Holdings, will lease - back the almond groves and land as well as related farming and irrigation infrastructure for a period of 18 years.

According to a Chicago Tribune article, at least one McDonald's rep traveled to Distant Lands» managed farms in Costa Rica, Brazil and Guatemala (as well as Indonesia), thus revealing the origins of at least three of the Latin American countries McCafe drink beans come from.

But fortunately, just as poor land - management practices are contributors to climate change, use of good on - farm...

I think as a farm kid, when you grow up on a farm, the land, it's another part of you.

As of last November, 127 wineries producing 74 percent of California's wines are certified as sustainable under the program, as are 1,099 vineyards farming 134,000 acres, nearly a quarter of California's vineyard lanAs of last November, 127 wineries producing 74 percent of California's wines are certified as sustainable under the program, as are 1,099 vineyards farming 134,000 acres, nearly a quarter of California's vineyard lanas sustainable under the program, as are 1,099 vineyards farming 134,000 acres, nearly a quarter of California's vineyard lanas are 1,099 vineyards farming 134,000 acres, nearly a quarter of California's vineyard land.

Hassad, the farming company backed by the Qatar Investment Authority, has sold more farming land as it moves its strategy from food security to better investment returns.

They have, for example, carefully mapped every farmer's individual plot of land to ensure that, as other farmers join the group, the farm clusters form wildlife corridors to protect Sumatran tiger habitat.

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).

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categorFarm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categorfarm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

As the original «how - to» small farming magazine, Town & Country Farmer is designed to help readers expand their farming knowledge, reach their goals and make life on the land easier with its focus on the practical aspects of living «the good life».

However, critics argue that organic agriculture may have lower yields and would therefore need more land to produce the same amount of food as conventional farms, resulting in more widespread deforestation and biodiversity loss, and thus undermining the environmental benefits of organic practices5.

Superior farms lamb is all natural, American lamb that grazes mainly on open pasture lands, and may be fed a supplemental grain diet as needed.

QIC's potential investment also comes as pressure builds on superannuation funds to look at competing with the wave of foreign pension funds that have spent more than $ 1 billion buying farm land in Australia in the past few years.

«I believe these properties are excellent investments given the surrounding areas around Armidale are versatile and highly productive farming land as well as offering an important educational hub,» she said.

As well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resourceAs well as explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resourceas explaining that the production of meat — on its journey from farm to fork — is responsible for 15 per cent of the planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.

Coffee farms of various sizes ring the reserve, acting as a buffer for the natural forest and preventing the land from being converted to row - crop agriculture or ranches, which quickly degrade and erode the thin tropical forest soil.

For Straus Family Creamery, organic agriculture, as practiced on small to mid-size family farms, starts with sustainable land stewardship.