Sentences with phrase «farm land which»

He had a live - in servant, a government of Bangladesh pension as a retired engineer, and a 50 - acre parcel of farm land which was 80 - per - cent leased out to tenant farmers for an undetermined amount of rent.»

Contaminated water from meat plants run off into farm land which in turn contaminates plant crops with the deadly E.coli bacteria strain O157: H7.

Not exact matches

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.

President Abraham Lincoln took the biggest step with the Homestead Act of 1862, which helped make available 270 million acres, or 10 % of the land mass of the entire nation, to encourage independent farm ownership.

Gavin decided to pursue environmental law while working on a small family farm, an experience which changed his perspective on the world and began connecting him to the land in new ways.

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.

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...»

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.

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.

The farm also has a small experimental orchard and research plots for grain, dry land vegetables, berries, and root crops, and a beautiful home which he helped his father build with a stunning view of the Bears Paw Mountains.

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.

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.

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 degradation.

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.

Other significant cotton farming interests up for sale include Eastern Australia Agriculture's portfolio which comprises the properties Kia Ora and Clyde south of St George totalling 37,590 hectares made up of 12,800 hectares of irrigation land with further areas of development potential.

There is much debate over the relative merits of conventional farming, which has a large environmental impact on the land it uses, and organic farming, which may require greater land use for the same yield.

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.

Warakirri Dairies leases land from the Warakirri Dairy Land Trust, which owns and operates about 4600 hectares across 11 dairy farms in Victoria and south - eastern South Australand from the Warakirri Dairy Land Trust, which owns and operates about 4600 hectares across 11 dairy farms in Victoria and south - eastern South AustraLand Trust, which owns and operates about 4600 hectares across 11 dairy farms in Victoria and south - eastern South Australia.

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.

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.

Because industrial agriculture was on the rise and milk prices were unrealistically low to sustain family farming, Straus saw an exciting opportunity — Create an organic marketplace; one which reflected the true costs of production and promoted responsible land stewardship, offering a viable, principled, sustainable business model for small dairy farms.

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.

However, we work closely with Marin Agricultural Land Trust, which arranges farm events and hosts tours on several organic farms in northern Marin County.

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.

Woodland, North Carolina, has a nice big chunk of land near the highway that would be just perfect for putting in a new solar farm, but it looks like that won't be happening because several town residents objected to the plan, which some of them said they opposed on the grounds that the solar farm might «suck up all the energy from the sun.»

It comes from sheep raised organically, which means the sheep don't overgraze and make the farm land infertile.

Cary officials have invited Town and Country Homes back for a second round of discussions about developing a 333 - acre former mink farm into a golf course community, which could keep a nearby parcel of land from becoming a gravel pit unwanted by many neighbors.

The warning flags went up, Cary trustees said, when they learned the Hoffman family had deeded to Lake in the Hills a strip of land that now separates their farm from Cary, which is south and east of the site.

Most open land is limited to a few scattered plots and the 13 - acre Dahm Farm at Long Grove and Clinton Roads, which has not been developed because of problems with water rights, according to Rowe.

Hundreds of residents living in Cary have asked the Park District to purchase the Hoffman farm to keep it out of the hands of neighboring Lake in the Hills, which has plans for the land that include a gravel pit.

Lake in the Hills still has possession of approximately 8 acres of land that Hoffman donated last year as part of an attempt to sell the entire 258 - acre farm to that municipality, which has a pending condemnation lawsuit against the property.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

It's a lot easier to subdue a farmer (threat to his land / farm) than someone having no job / property; which is why military occupation got progressively MORE difficult as history marched on and less and less humans were farming.

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural produfarm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural produfarm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural produfarm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural produfarm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural produfarm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural produFarm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

The clean - up is, however, geared towards a remediation of the land which has deprived the residents of their farming activities.

With placards, some of which read: «Gov» t abrogate this evil agreement,» «No Niger Delta militancy in Anlo land,» «shrimp and tilapia farm in Keta basin is forever,» the residents maintained they will not give up their farming and fishing for oil exploration.

Remember when Uncle Ira tried to find out which developer was behind the eminent domain land grab of the farm?

Heidemann and Bohling disagreed about a August 13 court filing, which would have stripped him of his ability to farm two parcels of land previously owned by their father.

«Farm operation» means the land and on - farm buildings, equipment, manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including a «commercial horse boarding operation» as defined in subdivision thirteen of this section, a «timber operation» as defined in subdivision fourteen of this section, «compost, mulch or other biomass crops» as defined in subdivision sixteen of this section and «commercial equine operation» as defined by subdivision seventeen of this sectFarm operation» means the land and on - farm buildings, equipment, manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including a «commercial horse boarding operation» as defined in subdivision thirteen of this section, a «timber operation» as defined in subdivision fourteen of this section, «compost, mulch or other biomass crops» as defined in subdivision sixteen of this section and «commercial equine operation» as defined by subdivision seventeen of this sectfarm buildings, equipment, manure processing and handling facilities, and practices which contribute to the production, preparation and marketing of crops, livestock and livestock products as a commercial enterprise, including a «commercial horse boarding operation» as defined in subdivision thirteen of this section, a «timber operation» as defined in subdivision fourteen of this section, «compost, mulch or other biomass crops» as defined in subdivision sixteen of this section and «commercial equine operation» as defined by subdivision seventeen of this section.

«The company was now sold, including the land and the three hectares pineapple farm, which was also developed by the Ministry of Agriculture for N283.8 million.

State government, which keeps track of such things, ranks Ulster County lower in its proportion of land in farms than most other upstate counties.

To set the record straight, it was Dr Nduom's father who led Teacher Atta Mills to acquire the farm land at Essaman in Elmina; for which today, Samuel Atta Mills has hired landguards to terrorize innocent people even though he is unqualified to contest any election in KEEA.

The Coordinator of the OSYC, Mr. Oluwatuyi Adekanmbi, said herdsmen had turned themselves to terrors in Ondo State by perpetrating in series of crimes which included: rape, farm destruction, killing as well as kidnapping in their land.

That's when I first rode «Listen to the Land,» a slow boat tour through futuristic greenhouses in which plants sprouted from Styrofoam, hung from floating rails, and thrived in symbiosis with tilapia farms.

Scientists have finally isolated the compound responsible for this miracle of nature, which could aid the recovery of damaged lands and eventually lead to bigger farm yields.

A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low - oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.

This type of farming needs a lot of land, which can be found cheaply overseas.

Washington, which produces farmed oysters, clams and mussels, is particularly vulnerable to acidification, for two reasons: seasonal, wind - driven upwelling events bring low - pH waters from the deep ocean towards the shore, and land - based nutrient runoff from farming fuels algal growth, which also lowers pH.

«Small - scale farming tends to be relatively more efficient than large landholding enterprises... which continue to keep considerable amounts of land idle,» it said.