She holds a bachelor's degree in accounting from Marywood College, is co-owner of GJF Rental Properties as well as a livestock and
grain crop farm.
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, an all - important piece of machinery used to harvest
grain crops on Niemeyer's
farm — the combine — broke.
Growing
crops to feed them to
farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of
grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty; to produce enough food for 9 billion people by 2050, we will need a more efficient system.
Growing
crops to feed them to
farm animals is vastly inefficient, driving up the price of
grains and legumes, and entrenching global poverty.
In the midland region of Travancore and in highlands to the east, they worked as
farm hands raising paddy, tapicoa and cash
crops while in the paddy fields of the west coast they were ploughers of the soil, sowers of seeds, transplanters of seedlings, removers of weeds, irrigators, harvesters, dryers of
grain and loaders into the wooden storage space.
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.
This lineup is being supplemented with new, developing programs that include Good Food Is Good Medicine, which aims to take the collective knowledge of FamilyFarmed, medical experts, nutritionists, chefs, farmers and others about the powerful connections between food and health, and make that information more readily available to members of the general public; and the Organic
Grain Promotion Initiative, which seeks to advance the fast - growing interest in better, more sustainably produced, heirloom
grains among retailers, consumers, bakers, distilleries, breweries and others while providing farmers with high - value -
crop alternatives to the commodity
farming system.
GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory
farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes
crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»
Farms that are eligible for the grants include: orchards, dairies, vineyards, maple producers, egg and poultry farms, grain, specialty crops, and ot
Farms that are eligible for the grants include: orchards, dairies, vineyards, maple producers, egg and poultry
farms, grain, specialty crops, and ot
farms,
grain, specialty
crops, and others.
Such
farming led to
crop failure, plant diseases, soil erosion, soil exhaustion, and
grains with less nutritive value.
The Chitwan Valley is inhabited by numerous rural
farming communities as the fertile land is ideal for
grain and food
crops, but it is the region's non-human inhabitants that provide a compelling reason to visit the area.
At least twice a year, once during the
grain harvest and again during rainy season, masked zoomorphic and anthropormophic figures perform dance ceremonies to celebrate prosperous
farming crops and successful hunting and fishing parties.
Direct energy includes electricity, heating fuel and machinery fuel used in
crop production,
grain drying, animal and animal product production, poultry, transportation of
farm products and personal energy use (e.g., heating farmhouse, driving to town).
The
Crops The vertical
farm could grow fruits, vegetables,
grains, and even fish, poultry, and pigs.
Several trends are converging to reduce the
grain area, including the loss of irrigation water, desert expansion, the conversion of cropland to nonfarm uses, the shift to higher - value
crops, and a decline in double -
cropping due to the loss of
farm labor in the more prosperous coastal provinces.
Its fertile soils, ample water and favorable growing season have allowed its
farms to supply
grains, fruits, vegetables, row
crops, livestock and dairy products to regional markets for generations.
Organic
farming can compete effectively in growing corn, soybeans, wheat, barley and other
grains, Pimentel said, but it might not be as favorable for growing such
crops as grapes, apples, cherries and potatoes, which have greater pest problems.
These trends are combining with economic developments — including the lowering of
grain support prices in recent years, the rising wages in off -
farm employment that pull labor from agriculture, and the shift to more intensive
cropping, such as vegetable production, to reduce China's
grain harvest.
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While smaller
farms grow biomass for energy alongside food
crops,
grain elevators at large organizations become refueling stations.
• reducing the risk of major killers like heart disease, stroke and cancers while cutting exposure to food borne pathogens; • offering a viable answer to feeding the world's hungry, through more efficient use of
grains and other
crops; • saving animals from suffering in factory
farm conditions and from painful slaughter; • conserving vital, but limited freshwater, fertile topsoil and other precious resources; • preserving irreplaceable ecosystems, such as rainforests and other wildlife habitats; • mitigating the ever - expanding environmental pollution of animal agriculture; and the list goes on.
In organic dryland
grain farming, we pay double for organic
grains, but
grain crops must be rotated into legumes, and also fallowed (rested) every other year.
The
farms will produce a wide variety of
crops from vegetables to apples to specialty
grains to Christmas trees, he said.