Sentences with phrase «of farm labor»

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.

«Agricultural practices» shall mean all activities conducted by a farmer on a farm to produce agricultural products and which are inherent and necessary to the operation of a farm including, but not limited to, the collection, transportation, distribution, storage and land application of animal wastes; storage, transportation and use of equipment for tillage, planting, harvesting, irrigation, fertilization and pesticide application; storage and use of legally permitted fertilizers, limes and pesticides all in accordance with local, state and federal law and regulations and in accordance with manufacturers» instructions and warnings; storage, use and application of animal feed and foodstuffs; construction and use of farm structures and facilities for the storage of animal wastes, farm equipment, pesticides, fertilizers, agricultural products and livestock, for the processing of animal wastes and agricultural products, for the sale of agricultural products, and for the use of farm labor, as permitted by local and state building codes and regulations; including construction and maintenance of fences and lanes; «Agricultural products» shall mean those products as defined in subdivision 2 of section 301 of the agriculture and markets law; «Farm» shall mean the land, buildings and machinery usable in the production, whether for profit or otherwise, of agricultural products;

Different companies have different requirements of farm labors.

Not exact matches

Relations between worker and employer are governed by a welter of state and federal laws and regulations drafted in the first half of the 20th century to prevent child labor and other abuses in factories and on farms.

As the manufacturing - and - farming economy has given way to an information - and - service economy, the number of Americans making their livings from what economists call contingent labor has soared.

Also, the Department of Labor noted a loss of 29,000 salaried jobs between August and October, not counting the farming sector.

Besides the non farm payroll numbers, she relies on the Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey — which shows layoffs, quits and hires as a share of employment — and the real pace of spending growth.

August 4, 1942 — the Mexican Farm Labor Program Agreement is signed by the governments of Mexico and the United States, the first establishing the legalization and control of Mexican migrant workers along America's southern border area

Put another way: As long as cotton farming was lucrative business, so was the business of forcing poor black Americans to provide the cheap farming labor.

It is interesting that those who argue so vigorously for new plants as ways of bringing jobs do not often argue in favor of substituting labor - intensive for energy - intensive means of production in either farm or factory.

Since the purpose of enlarging farms is to substitute machines for human labor, most must leave.

Their economies should be labor intensive rather than energy intensive; produce more durable goods to reduce waste; use local materials in building; consume locally grown foods; engage in organic farming; utilize organic garbage; depend on perennial polyculture, aqua - culture and permaculture; favor trains as well as human - powered machines such as bicycles; employ solar power and other on - site modes of producing energy; and in various ways operate on self - nourishing, self - healing, self - governing principles.

Obama's Department of Labor is in the process of banning farm children (including teens) from working on their families» farms.

But his key analytical model here, presented as a novel insight» that Progressivism was a movement of the middle class caught between perceived threats from the upper class above and the laboring and farming classes below» has been a commonplace of historiographical analysis since the 1950s.

Of course they will continue to use equipment that consumes fossil fuels; but on small, diversified, labor - intensive farms, the quantity used will be greatly reduced.

Using migrant farm workers at wages far in excess of their normal rate of pay in their own country is a major flaw labor practices.

However, labor is now organizing farm workers and janitors, who are truly part of the proletariat.

But for the most part their influence is small in the organizations — political parties, labor unions, manufacturers» associations, farm groups — which are most effective in determining the direction of community affairs.

Development of national economies typically involved shifts from subsistence farming to «more efficient» methods that released labor from the rural sector to the urban one.

The men of Scripture — Abraham, Isaac, Sampson, Daniel, Jesus, Peter, Paul — are men of action whose occupations centered around physical labor like farming, shepherding, carpentry, tent - making, and fighting animals with their bare hands.

If the students decide that we need to return to more labor - intensive forms of agriculture, they will have to consider how we can draw people to the land and how these people can learn again the ways of farming.

Hence celebrating and rewarding farm labor will reduce the process of shifting population from the countryside to the cities.

Rather, new factories were built, usually on the outskirts of small towns in heretofore rural America, where the mechanization of farms made available a pool of cheap, plentiful labor.

A noted by FoodIsPower.org, «Approximately 1.8 million children in the Ivory Coast and Ghana may be exposed to the worst forms of child labor on cocoa farms,» according to a 2011 Tulane University report.

Combining the PwC results with Bureau of Labor Statistics data on retail and distribution jobs, the food industry helps employ more than 15 million Americans across the entire value chain, from farm to table.

Farm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CountFarm Labor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CounLabor Contractor, Vineyard Pay $ 42K in Penalties for Providing Deplorable Housing Conditions to Farm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CountFarm Workers in Sonoma County: Investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma CounLabor's Wage and Hour Division found farm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma Countfarm labor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma Counlabor contractor Four Seasons Vineyard Management and winemaker Ridge Vineyards in violation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act for providing deplorable housing conditions to farm workers in northern Sonoma Countfarm workers in northern Sonoma County...

But giving your mom a speech about how you are morally superior to her for not eating animals is false logic, considering the slave labor used to produce your fruits, vegetables, nuts, and other delicious animal - free ingredients (coffee, sugar, bananas, mangos, berries, peaches, and cashews are just a few examples of foods imported from the third world where workers are severely mistreated and underpaid, or farmed by underpaid Mexican immigrants in the US).

UTZ and ICI have already been working together since 2013 to make sure the UTZ certification and therefore the UTZ Code of Conduct followed by cocoa farmers around the world, addresses the issues related to child labor in certified farms.

A couple of hours and plenty of false labor pains later, I'm back at the same corner picking farm - fresh produce.I score the most amazing purple kohlrabi, beets, carrots, baby turnips, breakfast radishes and little sugar pumpkins.

He was previously the Associate Director of the North American Integration and Development Center in the School of Public Affairs at UCLA from 1995 to 2006, where his research focused on NAFTA, contract agriculture in Mexico, fair trade coffee in Oaxaca, regional competitiveness of the produce industry, living wages in Los Angeles, and immigration and farm labor in California.

The notable exception was Costa Rica, where lack of ready labor prevented the formation of large farms.

I can really stand behind the SupHerb Farms brand and get passionate about the fact that the company helps operators get ahead of the curve to meet consumer demand for total transparency on ingredient lists while managing labor and ingredient costs.»

Another big labor of love in our house is developing Tended — it's webbased garden software to help gardeners and small farms design and track the many details of their operation.

Participating Farms declare Taste Washington Day a satisfying way to bring the fruits of their labor to their communities and children around the state:

In addition, organic farming needs manual labor compared to the conventional way of farming.

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Agriculture staff are better positioned to focus on the specific needs of family farms and agricultural businesses rather than dealing with other labor - management issues.

«These high labor expenses are making many of our farms uncompetitive when it comes to selling our products across state lines as well as internationally.»

The New York State Department of Labor's Youth Jobs Program and the New York State Tax & Finance Department's Farm Workforce Retention Credit and Minimum Wage Reimbursement Program are among the nearly one dozen credit and exemption programs available to assist agricultural business owners.

«In fact, your own Departments of Labor, Health, and Agriculture and Markets are involved in overseeing and inspecting farm operations to ensure that the multitude of state and federal labor laws that specifically protect farmworkers are met.&rLabor, Health, and Agriculture and Markets are involved in overseeing and inspecting farm operations to ensure that the multitude of state and federal labor laws that specifically protect farmworkers are met.&rlabor laws that specifically protect farmworkers are met.»

I think Unions are one of the main drivers for these farm labor bills.

For instance, when members of the Senate labor committee interviewed Acting Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon on Tuesday, Republican members asked her pointed questions on topics about a lawsuit the state Civil Liberties Union has filed seeking to help farm workers form unlabor committee interviewed Acting Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon on Tuesday, Republican members asked her pointed questions on topics about a lawsuit the state Civil Liberties Union has filed seeking to help farm workers form unLabor Commissioner Roberta Reardon on Tuesday, Republican members asked her pointed questions on topics about a lawsuit the state Civil Liberties Union has filed seeking to help farm workers form unions.

In 2013, the Department of Labor announced it had uncovered «evidence of apparent and potential violations» of labor standards outlined in the Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement in the company's farms, including lack of access to drinking water, 12 - hour work days, seven - day work weeks, employment of minors and overtime abLabor announced it had uncovered «evidence of apparent and potential violations» of labor standards outlined in the Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement in the company's farms, including lack of access to drinking water, 12 - hour work days, seven - day work weeks, employment of minors and overtime ablabor standards outlined in the Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement in the company's farms, including lack of access to drinking water, 12 - hour work days, seven - day work weeks, employment of minors and overtime abuses.

While raising the minimum wage for all New Yorkers is popular with labor unions, groups like the Business Council of New York State, the New York State Farm Bureau, Unshackle Upstate and Reclaim NY oppose it.

The New York Farm Bureau says the state has some of the highest agricultural labor costs in the country.

The Committee on Economic Development and Labor includes: · Haejin Baek, President, Barclays Structured Finance · Ruben Diaz, Jr., Bronx Borough President · Jamie Dinan, C.E.O. York Capital · Garry Douglas, Plattsburgh Chamber of Commerce · Hazel Dukes, President, NAACP New York · Rob Dyson, Chairman and C.E.O., The Dyson - Kissner - Moran Corp.; President, Dyson Foundation · James Francis, Founder and C.E.O., Paradigm Asset Management; Member, NYC Partnership · Barbarlee Diamonstein - Spielvogel · Jim Gerace, President, New York Region, Verizon · Barry Gosin, C.E.O., Newmark Knight Franks; Partnership for NYC Board · Hakeem Jeffries, New York State Assembly · John Johnson, President, Watertown Daily Times · Brian Kolb, Minority Leader, New York State Assembly \ · Kevin Law, Long Island Association · John Liu, New York City Comptroller · Edward Mangano, Nassau County Executive · Howard Milstein, C.E.O., N.Y. Private Bank & Trust and Emigrant Bank · Dean Norton, President, Farm Bureau · Peter Rivera, New York State Assembly · Van B. Robinson, President, Syracuse Common Council · Lisa Rosenblum Senior Vice President, Cablevision.

Hoffay, meanwhile, blasted the use of in - house labor for work which had previously been farmed out, saying it was an end run around both local contractors and the council, which has oversight of city purchasing and contracts.

«A carve - out would only make an already difficult task of finding farm labor even harder.

«The fact that the production of food and fiber engages only 5 percent of the U.S. labor force is primarily due to the mechanization of farming.