Sentences with phrase «mixed farming»

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.

Located on a 100 acre mixed farm with panoramic views of the Light Valley.

The top 20 % of mixed farming producers in southern Australia are retaining almost 30 % of turnover as net profit, while the remaining 80 % of producers are retaining less than 10 %.

Marleen Herbs of Tasmania Organic Medicinal Herbs and Extracts Farmed with innovative «organic» solar machinery Ronald & Marleen van de Winckel relocated their business (formerly Marleen Kruiden) from the Netherlands to a 40ha mixed farm at Barrington in north - west Tasmania in 2011.

Mosterts Hoek is a working farm where mixed farming is practiced with fruit and livestock.

Southern Queensland we are mixed farming region where we all have a connection through business, family and social reasons to agriculture.

On the Apple Isle, Landmark Harcourts Tasmanian director John Hewitt said there was strong interest in larger grazing and mixed farming properties but that «not many of these are coming onto the market this year».

The legislation will continue to allow mixed farms, which grow organic and conventional produce together, to assist farmers in the transition to organic on the condition that the activities are appropriately segregated.

«If you take the last 15 years, we have certainly seen a trend of what were mixed farming enterprises move completely out of livestock to purely cropping,» he said.

Since organic farms are mostly mixed farms, integrating animal husbandry with crop production, using vast and diverse rotations, intercrops and green cover crops, and maintaining soil fertility by cultivating nitrogen fixing legumes, they display a higher diversity of domesticated species than conventional farms.

The buyer took possession of the property and commenced a full mixed farming operation.

Mixed farming with manure amendment leads to higher organic matter levels in soil.

A comfortable fully renovated older style home located on 609 acres of mixed farming, situated at the end of a valley with the Rocky Mountains of the

In my last column I quoted «Farmer Bluey», who runs a mixed farm producing not insignificant quantities of wool, wheat, oats and lamb.

«Let's look at a mixed farm.

In a European context, the labour input is higher on organic arable and mixed farms, while organic dairy farms use the same amount of labour, or less, than comparable conventional farms.

Moreover, mixed farming and the diversity of organic crop rotations are protecting the fragile soil surface and may even counteract climate change by restoring the organic matter content93.

In the west, mixed farming is the norm, and few rely on sheep.

And so the issue actually dovetails nicely with the increasing awareness that mixed farming with livestock, as opposed to monocrop arable farming with pesticides and artificial fertiliser, is what we are so badly in need of.

The spectacular mountain views, along with the mixed farming activities of the valley pr...

1919 mixes the farm - to - table concept with Puerto Rican flavors, using local, artisanal products that feature flavor - forward fresh foods with a contemporary flair.

The spectacular mountain views, along with the mixed farming activities of the valley provide a tranquil atmosphere.

It occurs in a multitude of forms (mixed farms or specialized livestock keepers; species, herd size, free roaming or confined, husbandry practices), scales and degree of market orientation (subsistence, mixed subsistence / commercial, small commercial, large commercial) and locations (back yards, roof tops, peri-urban areas, urban public vacant spaces) each with its own problems and opportunities.

Gordon was born and raised on a mixed farm in Somerset, England, where his father produced, among other things, Landrace pigs and gladioli.