Sentences with phrase «biggest agribusiness graincorp»

Wilmar International, a Singapore - based company that bills itself as Asia's biggest agribusiness group, has come under fire for several of its plantation projects in Nigeria.

National Australia Bank, the country's biggest agribusiness lender, is moving to change its policies so that credit assessments put more weight on the sustainability of farmers» business practices.

Australia's biggest agribusiness sees profit fall by a third amid a «subdued market» and dry weather.

In the past 20 years the vast majority of small pork producers have given way to big agribusiness, and the big guys resorted to regularly dosing their animals with antibiotics to keep disease from spreading through thousands of hogs kept in close quarters.

So many of the excellent health food companies have been gobbled up by Big Agribusiness and he has guaranteed that this won't happen to his company now by making his employee's co-owners.

Give your body more of what it needs and not the additives used by big agribusinesses to pad their bottom line.

Don't let labels and big agribusiness fool you; additives are for their bottom line, not your health.

Oddly, he has promised to «fight the efforts of big oil and big agribusiness to undermine» corn - based ethanol.

So many of the excellent health food companies have been gobbled up by Big Agribusiness and he has guaranteed that this won't happen to his company now by making his employee's co-owners.

No additives means your body gets more of what it needs and not what big agribusinesses use to pad their bottom line.

By forbidding any state rules to regulate agriculture, Measure 1 allows big agribusiness to write its own rules with no oversight.

I think we need a new kind of agriculture — kind of a third agriculture, between the big agribusiness, commercial approach to agriculture, and the lessons from organic and local systems....

Witness for example how corn ethanol, the darling of big agribusiness, some farmers, the oil industry and many environmentalists — has fallen out of favor in public perception.

In this stylized political drama, fiscal conservatives decry the wasteful spending in existing farm programs and argue farmers, especially big agribusinesses, should be treated like almost every other business in this country and forced to compete in the free market without -LSB-...]

As Jason Clay, senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund, writes, «I think we need a new kind of agriculture — kind of a third agriculture, between the big agribusiness, commercial approach to agriculture, and the lessons from organic and local systems.»

The migration of over one million white - eared kob, tiang, and Mongalla gazelle starts in the southern Sudan but crosses the border into Ethiopia and Gambela where Fred Pearce at Yale360 reports it is running into the rapid expansion of big agribusiness.

As Monbiot reveals in his argument with Lynas over GM, all he has to say is that Lynas has been conned by big agribusiness.

But he made another important statement that's getting overlooked: he called on Congress to stop wasteful subsidies given to large farms — those «direct payments» to big agribusiness that cost $ 5.2 billion a year.

The long - rotating revolving door between big agribusiness and US government is well documented, so this reaction shouldn't come as a large surprise to anyone.

The reason Gibbs cites the transition from most of forest clearing being done by small - scale farmers (as was the case in the 80s) to agribusiness (from the 1990s onward), is that «Big agribusiness tends to be more responsive to global economic signals as well as pressure campaigns from advocacy organizations and consumer groups than individual small farmers.»

It's because big agribusiness interests have been successful so far in preventing any legislation that could have banned the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in the name of the bottom line.

Not exact matches

Great Southern receiver McGrathNicol has opted to wind up the olive schemes operated by the fallen agribusiness company after failing to overcome a stalemate with two of the biggest names in Western Australian horticulture.

Wellard chief executive Mauro Balzarini has sold a big chunk of his stake in the local agribusiness to a Chinese firm and repaid the company $ 16.3 million through his private investment vehicle.

SAO PAULO — Brazil ethanol producers stand to lose a big chunk of their largest market, Japan, to U.S. agribusiness, after Tokyo bent to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump and tweaked requirements for gasoline additives.

Indeed, universities and agribusiness companies have been telling farmers for years that the only way to survive is to «get bigger or get out,» and because the only way to get bigger is to take over the neighbor's farm it is difficult to feel much community when everyone is seen as a potential threat.

GLAM's Australian agribusiness portfolio includes Riverina Oils & Bio Energy, which is the country's second biggest oilseed crushing and refining operation, and TreeTops Plantations, Australia's largest table olive plantation with 120,000 olive trees.

Cargill is the world's biggest private company and the «C» in the famous four «ABCD» global agribusiness giants: Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, Cargill, and Louis Dreyfus.

The fund, managed by rural property veteran David Bryant, also grew distributions by 4 per cent to 8.92 cents in FY16 (a yield of about 5.4 per cent) as it benefited from rising global demand for the commodities its properties produce, the increasing scale and value of its portfolio and growing appetite for agribusiness from big institutional investors.

goFArm, which manages a development portfolio of over 21,000 ha of prime agricultural land in the Riverina and Sunraysia is run by agribusiness investor Liam Lenaghan and chaired by Robert Costa, co-founder of the country's biggest fresh fruit and veg group.

«This is becoming a much bigger issue in Australia as urban encroachment means agribusiness and expanding communities are located much closer to each other than previously.

US agribusiness giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), one of the biggest grains traders in the world, has been spared little sympathy by some farmers and politicians like Liberal senator Bill Heffernan, who used a Senate inquiry to grill ADM's executives on price - fixing charges dating back to the 1990s.

First, it managed to bring together, in the same room and quite often around the same discussion table, representatives of the biggest corporations in food and agribusiness (e.g. Coles and Woolworths); state, federal and local government officers; individual farmers; scientists and academics; and members of the growing community food sector.

AFSA emerged with the Peoples Food Plan as a response to the Governments National Food Plan, which in their analysis showed «heavy bias towards corporate agribusiness, large - scale food manufacturing, big retailing interests and a flawed public consultation process».

«This is becoming a much bigger issue in Australasia and other countries worldwide as urban encroachment means agribusiness and expanding communities are located much closer to each other than previously.

Agribusinesses should never dictate the quality of school meals... Big food companies have their priorities, which include selling cheap, unhealthy foods at high profits.

The existing economies of scale available to «Big Pharma» and agribusiness conglomerates will drop the price point of narcotics dramatically (presumably offset by a vice tax).

Regulate cannabis industry to include and encourage minority, women, small, and cooperative businesses and exclude big pharma, liquor, tobacco, and agribusiness.

Four to watch in 2014 Kauai's GMO rules: A big fight erupted on the small island of Kauai when the county council required agribusinesses to disclose use of pesticides and genetically modified crops.

I think we've been duped into blaming ourselves, when all along a big part of the blame should be placed on this corrupt product of genetics research, propagated by agribusiness, and put to profitable use.

The American public needs to be aware that agribusiness and Big Food companies have sucker punched you.

The rest effectively comes from my bearish calls, i.e. stocks I missed out on (vs. the index)-- ironically, the biggest performers in this category were Food & Agribusiness stocks (like Glanbia (GLB: ID), for example), of which I'm usually quite fond.

Many of her projects relate to corporate branding, especially with regard to entities that control natural resources, such as Big Oil and agribusiness.

Before he got the gig at the Minerals Council he used his talents to promote the interests of big food and agribusiness.

«NAFTA - style investment provisions,» I explained, «would let big oil, mining, tobacco and agribusiness companies avoid accountability to national governments or courts for the environmental destruction and social injustices wrought by their investment projects.»

Conflicts over mining, hydropower and agribusiness are the biggest drivers of deaths, with most victims from indigenous groups and rural communities.

WASHINGTON — Three big intertwined but rival agribusinesses — corn farmers, meat and poultry producers, and biofuel refineries — are in a political fight to protect their interests as a drought ravages corn producers and industrial consumers alike.

Assisted Agribusiness team in gathering information on customer requirement and closing of big loans.