Sentences with phrase «by farm land»

The area is surrounded by farm land, and farming is still a major contributor to the local economy.

The area is surrounded by farm land, and farming is still a major contributor to the local economy.

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Before 2009, there were no solar farms and only a handful of wind and geothermal plants on public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

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.

Some 300 miles north in Huntsville, new businesses sprout in farm fields drawn by readily available land, low taxes, flexible labor rules and improving infrastructure.

At the Wakefield solar farm, the five - megawatt project on the Vinson family's land, the cells that collect solar energy are imported — they were manufactured by JA Solar, a Chinese company, which makes cells and panels in China and Malaysia.

And by growing with Tower Garden specifically, restaurants save up to 90 percent more land and water compared to conventional farms.

For a variety of reasons, few of which relate to government policy, and more of which can be attached to market economics, the family farms are being swallowed up by corporate interests, whose MAIN concerns relate more to returns on investment and less on responsible husbanding of the land.

By STUDIO ESTATES Sponsored Post On a former cotton farm in Kyle sits a beautiful piece of land with expansive views and Hill Country charm.

A hydrologist named Chen Xing objected to this policy on the basis that it would lead to water logging and alkalinization of farm land due to a high water table produced by the dams.

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 Palestinians.

The sharecropper would clear and farm the land and leave it planted with grass before moving on in search of more land; the campesino's function from the sixties on, then, basically has been that of «increasing the value of land that will later be occupied by the big cattlemen» (Slutsky, 100).

Here is a workable scenario: A corporation owned by both Israeli and Palestinian interests (probably the governments, at least initially) builds one or more very large desalination plants and the necessary pipelines, develops the land to be irrigated, manages the farms on that land, and perhaps develops communities where the farm workers can live.

Indeed, in the short run there can be little doubt that the poor could profit from the slaughter of the remaining elephants by selling the ivory and farming the land.

Since money can be saved by mass production, huge hog farms now raise their hogs in miserable condition, meanwhile massively polluting the land and water and bankrupting farmers who try to continue more natural production methods.

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!

Things of this kind are from God: the fertile land, moderate winds, abundance of seeds, the work of the oxen, and other things by which a farm is brought to productivity and abundance... But the avaricious one has not remembered our common nature, and has not thought of distribution...»

Government policies should favor much smaller farms worked by owners who care for the land.

India's «green revolution» seemed to have passed these people by, since they didn't own land, and the new farming machines simply took away their old jobs.

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.

When people in Brazil are persuaded by their government to migrate away from the coastal areas to take up farming on a plot of land in Amazonia, they cause great destruction.

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.

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.

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.

About 50 years ago, Lyman says, the family started to use land that had been a dairy farm for golf courses, and today Lyman Orchards boasts 45 holes designed by PGA Hall of Famers Robert Trent Jones and Gary Player.

The pair found a 12 - acre parcel of land in Charles Town, W. Va., with an old farm cabin atop a hill surrounded by woods.

The majority of the coffee in the world is grown in 50 developing nations by producers that each farm less than 5 hectares of land [1].

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 degradation.

«We also hope to build an additional three demonstration and training farms by 2017, however to do this we will need to find the right partners and available land,» said Clement.

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.

The mills and facilities on Distant Lands farms are run by clean, renewable hydroelectric power.

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.

Minimizes energy consumption by 30 - 70 % per unit of land by eliminating the energy required to manufacture synthetic fertilizers, and by using internal farm inputs, thus reducing fuel used for transportation

Even if 60 % of agriculture would convert to organic farming, concentrated feed were reduced by 50 % and food waste by 50 %, it would result in a food system with significantly decreased environmental impacts, including lower overall greenhouse gas emissions, and only a marginal increase in agricultural land area.

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:

Roy's family has been farming land in the area since 1906, the year his grandfather arrived from England by boat, train and ultimately horse.

This indicates that depending on how much of the farm is covered by coffee, the requirement may actually be less than 20 % of the total land area.

VISALIA, Calif. — The findings of a five - month long study commissioned by California Dairies, Inc. (CDI), Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (DFA), and Land O & rsquo; Lakes, Inc. (LOL) indicate that a properly written federal milk marketing order for California would provide a regulatory structure that would potentially result in higher farm gate prices, which would benefit California dairy farm families.

Rifa Salutary, led by David Goodfellow, has made another major rural land purchase adding to its growing Australian portfolio of farms.

These entries into the SCAA competition are sponsored by Ka'u Farm and Ranch Company, LLC, the management entity of the lands on which the award - winning Ka'u coffee farms are located.

Gene and Kathy Davis farm 3,500 acres of organic land in southeast Saskatchewan by North Portal.

The Business: Featured on Sydney Weekender, and in numerous publications such as: Garlic by Penny Woodward; Transition Farms by Bev Buckley; The Land newspaper; Small Farms and Border Living magazines,» Carrigbyrne» has been a thriving organic garlic business for the past 26 years, with a large customer base of both retail businesses and individuals from Melbourne to Darwin.

CSWA Farm Plan Template: The CSWA Farm Plan template is based on the California Code of Sustainable Winegrowing Workbook, Certified California Sustainable Winegrowing, and the LandSmart ® for Vineyards Farm Plan, Version 4.0 developed by the Sonoma Resource Conservation District (RCD), Napa County RCD, Mendocino County RCD and Gold Ridge RCD in collaboration with the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), land managers, and environmental agencies.

The land has been in dairy farming since the 1800s when the Jewell family bought 5,500 acres, parcel by parcel, with gold and recorded it in old county records, which can be viewed to this day.

A research project funded by the European Union found that the diversity of landscape and farming systems was greater in organic farms, regarding land use types, crops, livestock, plantings (hedges, solitary shrubs, trees) and flora.

By 2001 the total figure of certified organic farms had reached 290 and 6 469 ha of land, together with 8 certified organic processing companies and 11 other certified organic companies.

The region, Goulburn Valley, gives its name to the best - known range of fruit - based products sold by SPC.. The business, which has a century - long presence in the regional hub of Shepparton, is something of a throwback — not only does it sell Australian - only fruit, its suppliers come from a narrow arc of intensively farmed land adjoining its cannery.

As dairy farmers that live on and near the land they farm, the Crandalls take very seriously what it means to be good stewards of the land, by doing everything possible to protect, and conserve natural resources.

Because ranches and farms and other private property usually occupy the lowlands and foothills, and public lands are located on the steeper and economically less desirable slopes above, the public spots are often inaccessible except by crossing posted land.

By 1969, the district owned almost 800 acres of land and had built Pioneer Park, now known as Blackberry Farm.