Sentences with phrase «of small family farmers»

Niman Ranch, a coalition of small family farmers, sells natural pork at an increasing number of grocery stores, including Trader Joe's.

Heirloom corn and sorghum molasses provide a window to our past in the hands of a small family farmer.

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Not an insignificant accomplishment for a family of potato farmers from the small village of Florenceville, N.B., who built the world's largest manufacturer of frozen potatoes.

Passage of this bill will be a big win for Main Street in rural America and the small financial institutions that help our families, farmers, and small businesses thrive.»

Although Welch's is considered one of the big brands in the industry, Hendricks says the company is actually a Co-op of more than 1,000 family farmers and employs a staff of more than 200 in Concord, Mass. «We're a big brand in a small company.

In this International Year of Family Farming, farmers» leaders from every arable continent have clearly stated that the focus must be on the vast majority of the worlds farmers, small holder family farms rather than large scale agribusFamily Farming, farmers» leaders from every arable continent have clearly stated that the focus must be on the vast majority of the worlds farmers, small holder family farms rather than large scale agribusfamily farms rather than large scale agribusiness.

Dealing with yearly changes in growing seasons, the weather, the potential for pests and blight, the seemingly endless task of weeding, the unpredictability of it all... small family farmers are pretty amazing.

We use only certified organic Muscabado whole cane sugar in the fermentation of our vinegar, grown by a cooperative of small scale family farmers in the Philippines.

«With less competition, big companies commonly underpay independent farmers for their products, undermining the economic viability of small, family - scale farms.»

Coffee farmers, particularly small producers, are ultimately in the business of growing coffee to support their families.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Family farmers, small and especially innovative food distributors and the nation's eaters are best served not by the quasi-monopoly of a grocery market controlled by the supermarket duopoly and its unscrupulous fellow travellers that engage in the alleged slave - like farm labour practices, but by a freed market.

Most small - scale family farmers live in remote locations and lack access to credit, so they are vulnerable to middlemen who offer cash for their coffee at a fraction of its value.

According to an industry source, about 80 percent of organic production currently comes from family farms, and organic growers (especially in the case of vegetables) produce on smaller areas than conventional farmers.

Opponents of the estate tax like to pretend that it's really about a defense of small farmers, such as when White House chief economic adviser Gary Cohn said, «You have a family farm that's big enough that it's going to hit the estate tax, you start paying lawyers, consultants, and accountants to break up your land, and break up your farm» (Source).

«I'm running for Congress to stand up for the working families in our district who have been shut out of our political system — nurses, state workers, teachers, parents, family farmers, and small businesses alike.

Instead of urging people to leave our region, we should be working to implement policies that help small business owners and family farmers to draw people and jobs back to our region.

«I'm grateful for the continued outpouring of support for our re-election campaign across the district, and across our state for our campaign to make Washington work for North Country small business owners, our veterans, our farmers and for our families,» said Rep. Stefanik in a statement.

«Instead of urging people to leave our region, we should be working to implement policies that help small business owners and family farmers to draw people and jobs back to our region,» Tenney said.

«I don't see how the conference is going to be justify a minimum wage that's the highest in the country and the most generous paid leave in the country when a large part of their base is small business owners and family farmers.

So while conventional industrialized agriculture feeds the developed world, most of the world's farmers work small family farms.

«We teach and support our small family farmers with regenerative, USDA organic and ethical farming practices, paying them whether their crops flourish or fail,» explains Amy Keller, Director of Education and Training.

However, with a new interest in quality, sustainability, and fair market practices in the cacao and chocolate trade, the small family farmers of Belize are able to provide a high quality bean as well as provide for their families.

2.3 by 2030 double the agricultural productivity and the incomes of small - scale food producers, particularly women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment

Alice Munro was born in 1931 in Wingham, a small town in southwestern Ontario, to a family of small farmers.

Dhaliwal's grandfather was a small farmer in India with lots of animals and Moore's family had many pets and he worked at a veterinarian's office at the youthful age.

Des Moines, IA About Blog Nancy L. Thompson has over thirty years of experience helping consumers, family farmers and small businesses with their debt problems.

From independent small fishermen and farmers they became wage labourers working for a triumvirate of ruling families in a succession of new industries - logwood, chicle, coconut - their lives transformed into a grinding monotony, guided only by their employers» need to accumulate more wealth.

In 1847, a farmer by the name of Sutton Green commissioned the construction — for his small but growing family — of the fine stone house where Hudson Valley Rose Bed and Breakfast now stands.

A small wooden main door leads to a large quadrangular courtyard from which the places once destined to the farmer's various activities develop: the rooms where he slept with his family, the stalls, the sheepfolds, the tool - sheds and a kitchen with a large fireplace for the production of cheese.

I will continue to support legislation in the Senate that provides appropriate assistance to small family farmers while reducing the public cost and scope of expensive farm subsidies.

In the late Edo era and Meiji era (1868 to 1912), the size of the satoyama occupied by one family became smaller because farmers could buy commercial fertilizers and no longer needed leaves for fertilizing, resulting in less intensive forest management.

Des Moines, IA About Blog Nancy L. Thompson has over thirty years of experience helping consumers, family farmers and small businesses with their debt problems.

Des Moines, IA About Blog Nancy L. Thompson has over thirty years of experience helping consumers, family farmers and small businesses with their debt problems.

«Our mission is twofold: to generate a steady source of produce to the New York City market and to provide steady sources of income to small family farmers.»

Most importantly, exchanges are used by a wide array of businesses including farmers and ranchers, commercial real estate investors, construction companies, conservationists, trucking and transportation companies as well as small family owned businesses that invest in real estate and vehicles,» commented President of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators Mary Cunningham.