Sentences with phrase «as farming on»

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

Not exact matches

Whether it's switching to «no till» farming (which stirs up the soil less and requires less fuel), buying GPS - tracking systems to efficiently apply fertilizer or — as the Lambricks do — selling their products at a stand on the side of the road, many growers have already tried squeezing as much profit as they can from their operations.

Today, each of the startup's farms features vertically stacked trays where the company grows carrots, cucumbers, potatoes, and, its main product high - end baby greens, which it sells to grocers on the East Coast including Whole Foods, ShopRite, and Fresh Direct, as well as to dining halls at businesses like Goldman Sachs and The New York Times.

Baird's strategy, for example, focused on women who lived near his farm and who were interested in topics such as food and photography, a niche he anticipated would be likely to visit — and spend — when the time came to open.

He poked fun at what we called his «hilariously useless» guide to playing the xylophone as an example of what not to do, and said content farms should focus on quality, not quantity of content, and that Google will eventually reward those that do with better search rankings, and therefore that it will be better for business over the long run.

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.

Growing up in rural Michigan, Jesse Vollmar watched as technology transformed the world around him, while life on the farm remained labor - intensive and stuck in the past.

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.

In 2009, Mexico slapped duties up to 25 percent on more than 90 different U.S. farm goods, from pork to frozen potatoes due to foot - dragging by U.S. lawmakers on allowing Mexican truckers on to U.S. roads, as specified under NAFTA.

Paul Vaughan - France, owner of the farm, told The Times: «I will take the images as good feedback and will do everything I can to work on every aspect of my husbandry.

Suddenly, a book about pigs taking over a farm begins to serve as a cautionary tale on how political dogma can be turned into malleable propaganda.

Growing up on her dad's farm (her parents separated, and each ran one), her work ethic has often been described as meticulous.

The captains of England's Industrial Revolution locked the doors of their factories during their 12 - hour workdays because the former farmhands on the assembly lines had a habit of wandering off for a snooze whenever they felt like it as they used to back on the farm.

Farm operators have come to rely on immigrants as natives have shied away from grueling agriculture work, even as pay for these jobs has increased.

James went on to say that he wishes the NCAA would have a stronger minor league or farm system, and mentioned European soccer academies as an example.

On the other side is the U.S. solar installation industry, which has benefited from low - cost panels that have led to explosive growth in rooftop systems on homes and commercial buildings as well as massive solar farmOn the other side is the U.S. solar installation industry, which has benefited from low - cost panels that have led to explosive growth in rooftop systems on homes and commercial buildings as well as massive solar farmon homes and commercial buildings as well as massive solar farms.

A Franco - German deal to maintain the nominal level of farm spending served as the basis for agreement on the last long - term EU budget for 2007 - 2013.

«I was a step away from being homeless,» recalls Gonzalez, who lived on cheese sandwiches as he waited for his first cannabis harvest at the farm he was renting.

As the oft - told story goes, Kamprad was a born entrepreneur, who, while growing up on a small Swedish farm, began selling matches off the back of his bicycle at the age of five.

Eggert will stay on as a supplier through his farms — an operation the family started 17 years ago.

The file quickly spread as users downloaded and posted it elsewhere: within hours, it was on BitTorrent and other peer - to - peer networks, streaming video hosts, and direct download server farms.

Besides the non farm payroll numbers, she relies on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — which shows layoffs, quits and hires as a share of employment — and the real pace of spending growth.

Under Morrison's tenure as CEO, the company has been on an acquisition kick, buying up Bolthouse Farms juices, Plum Organics baby food, and Garden Fresh Gourmet, the salsa and hummus dip maker.

Admittedly, 3,000 jobs is peanuts in the U.S. labour market, but, as the chart below shows, the federal layoffs mean that Washington is starting to be a drag on employment growth just as state and local governments are beginning to recover (blue is the federal government; green is state government; red means local government; and private sector employment, excluding farm employees, is orange).

As the «Czar of Cars» discusses on CNBC's «Blue Collar Millionaires,» Gill grew up in Fresno, Calif. working in a first - generation Indian family of immigrant farm workers.

For all these reasons, and as both a corporate wellness executive and a doctor whose wellness center is deliberately located on a working farm — given its profound healing impact, I find employee gardens to be the most exciting of the new generation of corporate wellness programs.

After I joined Google and stopped working on robots — I'd built some self - driving tractors on farms in the meantime — I was always tinkering and playing with robots at home and just as a hobby.

At least eight Russian accounts, most tied to the troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency, sent at least 16 social media messages excoriating the Sabal Trail pipeline or retweeting messages from one of its most prominent opponents, a frequent guest on RT..

On Tuesday, the company shared an update on the number of accounts purged from the Kremlin - linked troll farm known as the Internet Research AgencOn Tuesday, the company shared an update on the number of accounts purged from the Kremlin - linked troll farm known as the Internet Research Agencon the number of accounts purged from the Kremlin - linked troll farm known as the Internet Research Agency.

«The study says it will be very hard to make a biofuel that has a better greenhouse gas impact than gasoline using corn residue,» which puts it in the same boat as corn - based ethanol, said David Tilman, a professor at the University of Minnesota who has done research on biofuels» emissions from the farm to the tailpipe.

We selected Sanderson Farms (SAFM) and Pilgrim's Pride (PPC) as Long Ideas in mid-2015, but we are honing in our focus on SAFM as the best way to play growing chicken demand.

The quotes are based on a basic liability protection policy for the 2011 Toyota Camry across 12 insurers, including both national (such as GEICO and State Farm) and regional (such as Western National Insurance and Farmers Mutual of Nebraska) companies.

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.

New technologies, such as farm machinery and seed varieties, drove the consolidation of Prairie farms to take advantage of the greater ability to cultivate and harvest crops on a larger scale.

Developers, in turn, created apps that became emblematic of the Facebook experience — apps such as Farmville, a farming simulation game played with friends on the social network, which was made by the gaming company Zynga.

You have certain types of income (such as business or farm self - employment income; unreported tips; dividends on insurance policies that exceed the total of all net premiums you paid for the contract; or income received as a partner, a shareholder in an S corporation, or a beneficiary of an estate or trust)

Palm Beach is different from nearby Wellington, where people like Rosemary Phelan (heir to the Cara food empire) have horse farms; and from nearby Windsor, which Hilary and Galen Weston put on the map; and from Lost Tree, the gated community a half - hour north of Palm Beach where such eminences as Jack Welch (of former GE fame) and Toronto mayor John Tory have winter lairs.

I read Animal Farm for the first time since 7th grade on my flight from Tokyo yesterday and it struck me as the «must - read» book for people who want insights into the methods by which Bitcoin Core has controlled the narrative about BTC and Bitcoin Cash.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

In the second quarter of fiscal 2017, the company performed an interim impairment assessment on the intangible assets of the Bolthouse Farms carrot and carrot ingredients reporting unit and the Garden Fresh Gourmet reporting unit as operating performance was well below expectations and a new leadership team of the Campbell Fresh division initiated a strategic review which led to a revised outlook for future sales, earnings, and cash flow.

As a result, many utilities could pursue a «virtuous cycle» — spending more capital on more wind farms, while in turn increasing earnings - per - share growth and lowering customer bills given how cheap wind power has become.

Calacanis went on to say he likes Demand Media, knows executives there as well as at other so - called «content farms» and has lots of admiration for them.

Government has often played a role in promoting performance - enhancing work practices to enhance overall economy - wide outcomes from higher productivity and innovation, such as the long history of agricultural extension services (since 1887) to spread information on best practices in farming, and employer education on safety practices conducted by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The last two weeks drop in global markets is solid enough evidence of that, as is the freakish weather conditions in different parts of the world that have had a negative impact on the farming sector.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visits the holiday island in northern Greece on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 where a state of emergency has been declared as a forest fire burns out of control for a third day, gutting homes and small farms.

Primary industry, such as farming, used 26.7 billion kWh, down 4.2 percent year - on - year.

Hopefully you both have goals you want to reach together, such as owning your own farm one day or retiring on the beach.

It also removed an element that would have limited access to the lifetime capital gains exemption as a way to avoid negative impacts on the intergenerational transfer of family businesses, like farms.

From what I read in the information on Bill 6, the government isn't going to tell you your kids can't help on the farm, it is more concerned with large operations that are «farms» in name only but still treats their employees as the old style farm help.

He went on to work as a Treasury analyst before returning to the family farm in Dipton and standing in the seat known today as Clutha - Southland — a post he held until his decision in 2014 to stand as a List MP only.