Sentences with phrase «farm work in»

Being of Japanese extraction, he was registered with his family as an enemy alien in Canada during World War II and had to leave Calgary for farm work in order to survive those difficult years.

Bred to do farm work in the mountains of Switzerland, these dogs are hardy, trainable and eager to please.

You know a «I totally did some farm work in these» look.

That required that people now working on small peasant farms work in factories, which were located in urban centers.

Not exact matches

Mostly, they just kept an eye out for farm work and joined in.

Duncan, whose work involves developing new precision ag tools in partnership with farming communities, predicts the farm of the not - so - distant future will be entirely remote - controlled.

The biggest upgrade came in 1998, when the brothers stopped building Stingers on used trash trucks and instead contracted with the maker of those trash trucks to create a chassis optimized for farm work.

Hint for those who work in a cubicle farm: This is not at your desk.

Imrie - Situnayake and his partners used to work in the tech sector, and they're trying to bring Silicon Valley rigour and data - driven analysis to insect farming.

«Crowdfunding sites have played a huge role in helping producers figure out what can work,» says Dan Imrie - Situnayake, who runs Tiny Farms, an Oakland, Calif., consulting firm that helps insect producers get off the ground.

To really make peer - to - peer learning work in sales, there's another step required: peer - to - sales - enablement - to - peer (just like farm - to - table actually is farm - to - kitchen - to - table).

«We're seeing the mature technology companies trying to energize their work environments, getting rid of cube farms and investing in facilities to compete for talent,» said Kevin Schaeffer, a principal at architecture and design firm Gensler in San Jose.

Hmm, for some reason it's taking a bit too long to farm this out, so I click over to GetMeATeam, which provides teams of three or more people who will work in tandem to do larger projects.

The festival in turn funds the Red Ants Pants Foundation, which gives grants to develop leadership roles for women and to support rural communities and working family farms and ranches.

«Growing up on a farm in New England, and then working in the field after college with Outward Bound, the entire time I needed to wear good, heavy - duty work pants, but there was nothing available.

Today, Youn and the people he has worked with have doubled or tripled the annual crop yield on more than 250,000 farms in nine years, which has impacted more than 1.3 million children.

When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.

Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.

In looking for «nonnormal job» endeavors, Tetrick got talking to his childhood friend Josh Balk, who worked on reducing dependence on factory - farmed chicken eggs for the Humane Society of the United States.

(His sister, Susie, still lives in Omaha and focuses on her philanthropic work; his brother, Howard, owns a farm in Decatur, Ill.) Above all, the key thing about Peter Buffett is that he appears to be absolutely and completely normal.

Americans working in farm service, input, processing and marketing could find their livelihoods at risk if Trump's immigration policies come to fruition.

The most famous example of this is in farming, where one man with a big tractor now often does the work that a dozen men might have done in years gone by.

With a working farm, craft brewery, and one of the deepest wine collections in America (160,000 - plus bottles) this is foodie nirvana.

On Thursday, he said technical fixes were in the works to address farmers» concerns that the changes would impair their ability to bequeath the family farm to the next generation.

A: Rooted in Hope will be working on a new project focused on water and sustainable farming practices with the City of Refuge in Ghana.

Very few people want to work in a cubicle farm, and in many industries open floor plans encourage spontaneous brainstorming sessions as well as camaraderie.

(It's already working with two farms in Tennessee; consumers can order their goods online and pick them up at several designated locations.)

«As a farm boy growing up in Indiana, my parents instilled in me a very good work ethic, but when I went to college at 17, I had no goal, no idea where I wanted to be.»

The market for Polaris» machines, popular for farm work, hunting and sport riding, was growing in the south.

Coda's Heze employees have experience working on farms, not in factories, so it takes Coda extra time to train them.

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.

At 11, she worked with her brother in a commercial chocolatier and founded the Chocolate Farm.

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.

In 1993, around 100 Case Farms employees refused to work in protest against low pay, lack of bathroom breaks and payroll deductions for aprons and gloveIn 1993, around 100 Case Farms employees refused to work in protest against low pay, lack of bathroom breaks and payroll deductions for aprons and glovein protest against low pay, lack of bathroom breaks and payroll deductions for aprons and gloves.

See how they'll be put to work in fields from firefighting to farming.

Canopy Growth Corp's (WEED.TO) Tweed Farms Inc subsidiary expects to spend at least C$ 25 million ($ 21 million) to upgrade the property, a flower farm it purchased for about C$ 9 million in cash and equity, with work including the installation of security cameras and fences due to start in October.

Utilizing previous experience that he gained while working for Zeusminer in the capacity of maintaining a Litecoin mining farm, Yang launched a very well thought up and very well designed system.

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.

Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers in the Fraser Valley, who notes that the reduced value of the Canadian dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut in half in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S. dollar.

Choose your own path to happiness by owning your own frozen yogurt franchise and making your community a happier place If you've ever found yourself unable to face one more gray day in a cubicle farm working toward somebody else's dream, you may have daydreamed about owning your own business.

Vandersat: The Dutch satellite imagery startup for agriculture partnered with Swiss Re in March 2018 to help create new parametric crop insurance products and work on Swiss Re's farm management software platform, opti - crop.

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.

I spent my days either working on the Reserve Community Farm, or helping re-open ancient First Nation Trails in the Wilderness.

I'd leave my job, which I did in 2012, and relocate to Hawaii and work on my grandfather's fruit farm, which I did not.

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.

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.

Dave Soleil works to ensure the integrity and efficient functioning of Compassion as a nonprofit organization and a leader in the advancement of welfare standards for farm animals.

Working with BlackShire Capital Corp., Chalice Farms will become an industry leader in expanding its retail footprint throughout the United States and abroad.

Prior to joining Chalice Farms, he played a key role in managing data monetization for clients while working in the advertising and data management industry.

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.