Sentences with phrase «made by growers»

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Unfortunately, a growers» strike in Mexico and a drought in California have made them harder to come by and, subsequently, more expensive.

It's not a big grower — the company makes money by collecting a facilities fee from patients — but earnings should expand by mid-single digits in the coming years.

Growers who jumped into the new legal market hoping to make a killing in cannabis are now getting killed by a glut of product.

As we reported last year, Hancock Agricultural Investment Group, an investment owned by the Canadian insurance and financial services giant Manulife Financial, owns at least 24,000 acres of almonds, pistachios, and walnuts, making it California's second - largest nut grower.

Sustainable winegrowing is being used by winegrape growers and vintners throughout California to grow and make high quality grapes and wine.

By implementing organic farming as an alternative production system, growers may substitute cultural and biological inputs for synthetically - made chemicals and fertilizers... Continued

By engaging a critical mass of companies, from seed growers to manufacturers, we achieve the economy of scale that makes long - term non-GMO sourcing possible.

But chief executive Darren De Bortoli said the biggest threat to his business - as well as other winemakers - was not the rising dollar, which was making exports uncompetitive, nor the power of the two leading supermarket chains, but the «rorting» of the WET tax rebate by small uneconomic growers who are flooding the market with cheap loss - making wine.

By making a bulk purchase of the Guide, interested California growers can obtain the Guide from the Commission for between $ 75 - $ 80.

Last year the winery made a firm commitment to source 100 % sustainably certified grapes by 2019, while providing technical and financial assistance to growers to help them achieve certification.

They're not only made of love but from love — hand - grown on approximately 5,000 small, family farms throughout Central and Southern California, by growers who nurture the fruit in the tree for over a year.

Vintners and growers made a formal commitment to implement sustainable practices by establishing in 2002 a best practices program named the Code of Sustainable Winegrowing.

Unlike most Champagnes, which essentially contract out for fruit, grower bubbly is made by the people who farmed the grapes.

The grower can control the spread of water in sloping gardens with small dams made from soil or sections of two - by - fours.

They're made by the Corn Growers» Association or somesuch.

«There are probably a fair amount of fields that there really isn't going to be a large benefit from in - furrow starter, and that's one of the things that growers are going to have to play around with and make the decision on whether it's worth it or not by doing some on - farm research.»

Florida's citrus growers say as much as 90 percent of their acreage and 80 percent of their trees are infected by the deadly greening disease, which is making a huge dent in the state's $ 10.7 billion citrus industry, a new University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences survey shows.

The California Strawberry Commission has made products safer not by implementing new technologies, rather they better educate farmers, says Andrew Kramer, director of grower education.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Giant pumpkins adorned the landscape made of orange roses by Passion Growers from Miami, Florida.

The agricultural market's broader weakness is impacting the performance of its plant nutrition segment because it has created general hesitation by growers to make purchases.

When and if organic growers make the case for using a synthetic substance, such as pheromones to prevent crop infestation by insects, it must be «approved according to criteria that examine its effects on human health and the environment,» according to the USDA.

At the same time, many oyster growers and fishers make a living and contribute to our local economy by cultivating the seafood we consume.

«This celebration gets better every year; it's a fitting tribute to this nation's commitment to make its cacao bean crop a major industry and an excuse to invite the world to commemorate the decision made to cultivate it by the Toledo Cacao Growers Association in 1984.»

It also commemorates the tremendous contribution to development in the south made by the Toledo Cacao Growers» Association (TCGA) and its hundreds of farmer members.

For this video, brought to us by EcoFilms Australia, we visit the rooftop farm at Green Sky Growers in Florida, where they use liquid oxygen and high protein fish food (presumably made of other fish) to produce 1 lb of fish for every gallon of water.

Unfortunately, that kind of blame is rarely accurate or helpful, and from my viewpoint, has created a big rift between the people who grow most of the food and the rest of us, who depend on them, and often overlooks the many growers, ranchers, and farmers who are making a difference by focusing on building soil, conserving water, and creating a more resilient local food shed.

However, a new web platform aims to change that, by making it much simpler to connect local foodies with local backyard growers, and to put more public domain fruit trees on the map so that people can put those fruits to good use.

He can predict and steer the plant's growth, by giving real actions to the grower to make that happen.

Though the other two major international growers, Del Monte and Dole, have so far chosen not to get involved with the project (they say their own labels are the only symbols of quality needed), they and other smaller growers are making improvements in their operations - improvements that they say meet or exceed the standards set by the alliance.

While corn growers are protected by the mandate, they are making money — but at the expense of chicken, turkey, egg, and hog farmers who are paying an extra $ 100 billion a year in feed costs.

For fun they have started a Fair Trade Farmer Music Project, recording the traditional music made by coffee growers around the world.

Something does need to change for the majority of Asian coconut growers, who are deeply frustrated by how little they make from what has become North America's new darling commodity.

In Morocco's Oum Er Rbia River basin, a key agricultural region suffering from water shortages, the government and the World Bank are working together to «make irrigation in the basin more sustainable, more profitable, and more resilient to climate change» by limiting growers to a fixed — but reliable — amount of water consumption, subsidizing efficient irrigation equipment, and connecting farmers with domestic and international markets.