Sentences with phrase «larger farming operation»

These mills are typically part of a larger farming operation, and they're operated strictly for profit.

Still, robotic assistance already makes good business sense for many large farming operations.

* The great majority of ferrets we see today are from large farm operations (such as Marshall Farms).

Not exact matches

Farm income had fallen sharply, creating severe overcapacity in International Harvester's largest operations — the truck, agricultural equipment, and construction equipment divisions.

Desjardins Group recently expanded significantly outside Quebec, notably with the acquisition of State Farm's Canadian operations, which closed Jan. 1 and made you Canada's second - largest property and casualty insurer.

The company has been investing in farmland since 2004 and operates two large - scale farming operations totaling 28,000 acres of grain production.

We typically focus on initiatives and activities that can have the greatest impact given the specific nature of our operations, such as our wind and solar farms to generate electricity and our frustration - free packaging initiatives, but we also have innumerable large and small initiatives underway at any point in time, as we seek to constantly invent across the company.

Russia's largest mining farm, BitBaza, is expected to begin its operations at the «Divnyi»...

From what I read in the information on Bill 6, the government isn't going to tell you your kids can't help on the farm, it is more concerned with large operations that are «farms» in name only but still treats their employees as the old style farm help.

So maybe the Wildrose and Derek Fildebrandt doesn't really care as much about the «family farm» as they do for the larger commercial agriculture operation that employs workers but still wants to be labelled a «family farm».

It is also the largest global player in the bream and bass category with vertically integrated operations that can effectively execute all phases of fish farming including incubation, harvesting, processing, and fish - feed production.

Schindler wouldn't disclose just how many graphics cards are deployed at Genesis» Engima — heralded as the world's largest Ethereum mining operation — but said that the farming operation has grown significantly since it launched in 2015.

The largest chunk of agricultural output — 61 percent — comes from America's «corporate» farms, operations that usually produce a single commodity under contract with a consolidated firm.

The cows are pasture - raised on every family farm Minerva Dairy works with, meaning the cows have a choice and lifestyle often not found in other parts of the country or in large operations, Mueller says.

Farm sizes range from large, well - established operations to the small peasant farmers» plots, many less than half an acre.

In addition to its agriculture operations, Harris Farms is home to about 600 thoroughbred horses at any given time, making it one of the largest breeding and training operations in California.

Based on today's market, this will make it the largest single - owned entity organic dairy farming operation in Australia.

Nation's Two Largest Organic Dairy Suppliers Face - Off in Court Over Ethics Earthbound Farm Sells Its Organic Produce Operation to WhiteWave for $ 600 Million

Investment in large scale dairy farming operations.

The company expects to convert all of its 3,600 acres to organic production, which will make it the largest single - owned organic dairy farming operation in Australia.

Once signed by Mr. Bellone, activities promoting agricultural tourism including U-pick operations, harvestable crop mazes and hayrides would become acceptable, as well as the addition of larger farm stands, permeable parking areas, and processing facilities that create locally crafted goods such as wine or potato chips.

New government figures show that the state lost a thousand small farms last year, even as the number of larger operations increased.

John Shockley, a West Fargo, N.D. - based attorney representing the group of landowners, said that farming operations have gotten much larger in the past few decades.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture initiated certification standards for organic production under the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act in 1990, but as organic farming moved toward large corporate operations the use of USDA - recommended practices had declined.

Large - scale organic farming operations, based on a review of almost a decade of data from 49 states, are not reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says a University of Oregon researcher.

There are already large operations farming crickets for the pet food industry.

«Organic farming needs direction to be sustainable: Weak adherence to recommended practices may be behind the levels of greenhouse gases coming from large - scale organic farming operations.»

Although pig farming is a longtime practice in Malaysia, the industry had recently grown from many small family farms to include a few intensive operations that were large enough to satisfy the demand from non-Muslim communities in Malaysia, Singapore, and other parts of Southeast Asia.

A handful of the purchasers are countries, but most are investment firms, biofuel producers or large - scale farming operations.

The idea was to target three issues with traditional meat farming: protect animals from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter; reduce the environmental damage of large - scale livestock operations; and give humans healthier meat and better food security.

But the realization that successful large - scale operations have to function like well - run farms raises the issue of competition with food crops for water and land, says agronomist Raymond Jongschaap of Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

Moving southward, the focus shifts to Justin Knopf and Keith Thompson, whose large Great Plains operations have become successful laboratories for «no - till farming,» an almost unimaginable notion not long ago that has won a fast - growing number of converts.

Larger operations tend to have websites, making it easy to locate and contact the produce farms in your area.

State Question 777 would allow a large and poorly run hog operation to move in next door to your family's farm, and there will be no recourse for the contamination of your water or the depletion of your resources.

One of California's biggest chinchilla farms was closed in Vista this week in what San Diego Humane Society & SPCA says is an animal rescue operation that could be the largest in county history.

Prior to the Peace Corps, she was the «Edugator» at the largest alligator farming operation in the world.

We believe that the health of and delivery of veterinary care to individual animals has improved as farms have become more able to access the specialized expertise that is often more affordable for larger operations.

Back in 1964, a woman named Ruth Harrison was terribly concerned that small family farms across England were being quickly replaced by large industrial farming operations that saw animals as mere products, not as living beings.

In the early 1900s, the family farm began to be replaced by larger scale operations.

I caught up with Foley by e-mail, saying that the paper appeared to paint a picture in which cereals, particularly, benefit from fertilizer and the other inputs favored in large - scale farming, while specialty crops can offer smaller farming operations sustainable levels of income.

Until the Haliade - X enters operation, however, and assuming no competitors have an ace up their sleeves, MHI Vestas will hold on to the title of world's largest wind turbine in operation and will top it themselves when it begins installing its V164 - 9.5 MW wind turbines at Belgium's Northwester 2 offshore wind farm.

At retirement, I was President of a sizable energy company that included a stable of 23 renewable energy plants, an oil and gas drilling and production subsidiary, a natural gas trading subsidiary and various other diverse operations including such unlikely endeavors as airliner leasing and even a large pistachio farm.

Much of Wednesday's program was devoted to Canada's rapidly expanding wind energy operations and maintenance (O&M) market, with representatives from some of the country's largest wind farm operators weighing in on strategies to boost efficiency, improve productivity and lower costs.

Simple to deploy and operate, WindHelm is at the same time capable of providing the comprehensive services of a large - scale wind farm operations, maintenance and optimization control center across the range of turbine brands.

It will create new, expanded and largely unlimited crop insurance subsidies for the largest and most successful farm operations at the expense of family farmers and the environment.

The increased specialization of farming operations resulting in more large livestock enterprises and fewer mixed farming operations creates a break in the link between livestock and crop production.

In addition to better preserving biodiversity, the researchers point out that in many areas of the tropics small family farms match or exceed the productivity of large scale operations.

Melanie leads the team advising on the construction contracts for the London Array Offshore Wind Farm (the world's largest offshore wind farm in operation) and is currently advising on another three offshore wind projeFarm (the world's largest offshore wind farm in operation) and is currently advising on another three offshore wind projefarm in operation) and is currently advising on another three offshore wind projects.

Notable mandates: Retained by a utility company in its acquisition of power plants; acted for a utility company in a joint venture for a new power development; worked on the sale of a nutritional supplements company; acted for a lender in providing financing to a Nova Scotia company with operations across Canada; acted for a lender in an insolvency restructuring proceeding involving a company with substantial aquaculture assets in New Brunswick and Newfoundland; acted for a lender and a receiver in an insolvency restructuring of a substantial apple farming operation; acted for a receiver of assets of a development company in P.E.I. and in a dispute in P.E.I. between two secured lenders concerning entitlement to proceeds realized on a receivership; numerous multimillion financings for one of the largest commercial multi-unit residential financiers in Nova Scotia

Recent transactions: • Representing Indian conglomerate Jindal Power in a USD 900 million, 350 MW power plant deal with the state electricity company, Senelec — the largest energy deal ever in Senegal • Representing American Capital, the lenders in a wind farm operation in Taiba Ndiaye, Senegal • Advising Caterpillar on the Engineering, Procurement and Construction Contract in relation to a Public - Private - Partnership to build a 130 MW power plant in Senegal Publications: Energy, 4th Edition, (Côte d'Ivoire Chapter), Mouhamed Kebe and Hassane Koné, Global Legal Guide, 2015 The Energy Regulation and Markets Review, 5th Edition, (Senegal Chapter), Mouhamed Kebe and Codou Sow - Seck, Law Business Research, 2015