Sentences with phrase «of wheat farmers»

* Please don't get too hung up on the specific example of wheat farmers, it could be any other sector of the economy.

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He acknowledges that this is a point of contention — there are Wheat Board loyalists out there who will highlight cases of farmers suffering in the wake of deregulation.

Farmers are earning huge profits on their wheat, soybeans, cotton and other crops; strong demand for (and relatively tight supplies of) grain, oilseeds and other key food inputs encouraged them to use large volumes of fertilizer (notably potash, phosphate and nitrogen) to boost their crop yields.

The changes made last August mean farmers are paid cash for wheat and barley when they haul it to the elevator instead of receiving a series of payments over roughly 18 months.

In 2012, western Canadian farmers seeded 21 million of acres of canola, surpassing the acreage for wheat (at 17 million) for the first time.

It has also served as a long - standing source of western alienation, largely because farmers in Eastern Canada and most of British Columbia are exempt from the wheat board's authority.

Why did Australia's farmers block the float of AWB Ltd (the former Australian Wheat Board)?

China's retaliation so far has targeted Midwest farmers, including growers of soybeans, corn and wheat.

According to a March report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), American farmers just aren't planting wheat like they used to.

Following a season of higher - than - expected grain production in the Prairies, farmers are now faced with the most severe backlog in years, with many deliveries for wheat, oats, barley and other products lagging months behind schedule.

High prices probably encouraged farmers to expand planting of peas and lentils earlier this year, especially with wheat and canola prices down from last year.

A friend and colleague of mine who happens to be a wheat farmer shared with me his real life experience with trying to compete against the Monsanto - driven corporate farms in this country.

The history of stock futures, in general, dates back to the 1840's, when regional farmers met in Chicago to sell wheat to dealers for cold, hard cash — a practice that was dubbed as «spot» pricing.

In 2000, Mr. Strankman was an unsuccessful candidate in the Canadian Wheat Board elections and in 2002 he was fined $ 7,500 and faced 180 days in jail after taking 756 bushels of wheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmWheat Board elections and in 2002 he was fined $ 7,500 and faced 180 days in jail after taking 756 bushels of wheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmwheat across the American border and sold it (he only served a week in jail with four other rebel farmers).

Rick and 12 other farmers arrested received a pardon from Prime Minister Stephen Harper on August 1, 2012, when the federal government's Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act came into effect, which allowed producers to opt out of the Canadian Wheat Board and sell wheat on the open farmers arrested received a pardon from Prime Minister Stephen Harper on August 1, 2012, when the federal government's Marketing Freedom for Grain Farmers Act came into effect, which allowed producers to opt out of the Canadian Wheat Board and sell wheat on the open Farmers Act came into effect, which allowed producers to opt out of the Canadian Wheat Board and sell wheat on the open maWheat Board and sell wheat on the open mawheat on the open market.

At a reunion with 12 of 13 farmers who had been jailed for taking wheat across the border, Rick stood by his decision to participate in the act of civil disobedience.

What he worries about is that North Dakota soybean farmers will switch to wheat because of Chinese tariffs on soybeans, putting them in competition with him.

I think the answer was they had a lot of mouths to feed, so the American farmers could send a lot of wheat there.

But as the farmer goes about the task of raising wheat, he finds the most beautiful of flowers springing up in odd corners; he notices for the first time a grove of stately trees.

I watched some of those construction projects, including one that had begun north of Jerusalem in a wheat field, confiscated in recent days from a Palestinian farmer.

The five top corporations are presently involved in class - action suits brought by wheat farmers in Oklahoma and Texas who accuse them of rigging grain prices.

Our stations are known God the farmer knows a kernel of corn for sweet corn or alcohol depending on the need or wheat grain for bread or wallpaper paste.

It is to follow the footsteps of Jesus Christ who is both the shepherd and the sheep, the farmer and the wheat, the vine shoot and the wine in the chalice, the sacrifice and the sacrificer.

Meet Matt Horlacher, a farmer in Tensed, Idaho, who's working with Ardent Mills to grow White Sonora, one of the oldest surviving North America wheat varieties.

Oh, and, by the way, some of why people have seeming wheat issues are that the farmer's triple spray the wheat with Round Up as a means of harvesting maximum yield.

In fact, a preference for white wheat products in Asia has contributed to a decline in the export of U.S. red wheat to this rapidly growing region of the world.5 Since farmers can switch fairly readily to white wheat, the forces of supply and demand should ensure that there is enough white wheat to make popular whole grain products.

«Natural s» Wheat ® 100 % Genuine Stoneground Whole White Wheat Flour is brought to bakers by a cooperative of farmer / members through our trademarked process, Identity Assured ®.

My perfect BLT and the one I grew up eating (not that there's much of a differentiation between what you're probably used to), was simple — perfectly ripe farmer's market tomatoes (or garden tomatoes) dusted with a little bit of salt and pepper and layered with crisp iceberg lettuce, at least four pieces of crispy bacon (flimsy bacon is a crime in my household) and then smooched between toasted whole - wheat sandwich bread smothered with light mayo.

I'm definitely going to have to make some of that crumble as soon as the farmer's market produces more than just strawberries — maybe with buckwheat flour subbed in for some of the wheat.

I've been making unda style «sort - of» kati rolls with whole wheat tortillas (and it is yummy drizzled with a sweet jalapeno tomato sauce from my farmers market)- so will definitely try this!

Our Turkey Red Wheat is grown in the rural areas of western Wisconsin by small - scale farmers using sustainable agricultural principles.

The result of partnering with a dedicated group of farmers to bring you this version of our White Whole Wheat Flour.

BTW for those of your readers in the E Bay, Massa Organics sometimes sells wheat berries in the Berkeley Farmers Market.

American farmers in the Northern Plain states and the Pacific Northwest have subsequently increased planting of lentils, peas, and chickpeas in recent years, while decreasing production of wheat.

The 2014 program schedule included: culinary demonstrations centered around adventurous flavors and new menu trends; presentations and panel discussions focused on sustainable agricultural practices, the role of wheat in our diet vs. seekers of gluten - free options, and water issues affecting food production; discussions on how American menus are often shaped by millennials, health and nutrition concerns, and global cuisines; a Friday field trip to the CIA Farm in St. Helena and through Marin and Sonoma Counties to visit Pozzi Ranch, Dutton Ranch (where Valley Ford Cheese Company joined), and Gourmet Mushrooms with tastings and presentations by the farmers as well as farm bureau and land trust experts; and the exciting and interactive Saturday Market Basket Exercise, where attendees were divided into six teams to develop menu concepts using sponsor products for the following categories:

1/2 bunch kale, destemmed, torn into pieces 1 cup / 5.5 oz cooked farro or wheat berries (semi-pearled or whole) 4 - 5 farmers» market carrots, very thinly sliced 1 small bulb of fennel, transparently sliced 1 avocado, cut into small cubes a big handful of almond slices, toasted

At farmers» markets and natural food stores, we've talked to hundreds of people about wheat.

And as for the bread, this loaf is from a local baker at our farmers market, but on the more common days I use the sprouted wheat with flax by Silver Mills Bakery — usually found in the frozen section of our health store + at Whole Foods too!

Field trials of GM wheat were targeted last year in the UK, and now some 400 farmers in the Philippines have stormed a government - owned GM research field.

I have to confess, when me and my friend, sort of, used to run through the fields of wheat, the farmers weren't too pleased about that.»

In recent centuries potatoes have become the world's most important tuber crop and its fourth most important source of food energy (after rice, wheat, and maize): farmers and gardeners grow them worldwide.

Now a local Indian civil engineer has mastered the art of making «artificial glaciers» that deliver water when it's needed most — in the early spring, right after farmers sow their single crop of wheat, barley, or peas.

Some are getting easement payments that add up to $ 10,000 a year, explained Chad Weckerly, a grain, wheat, corn and soybean farmer, and many of those payments increase 2 percent each year.

Farmers in Russia will change the time of wheat planting [for example], and may switch to a different crop if the hot summer of today becomes the norm of the future.»

But the commercial aviation industry burns nearly 240 million gallons (945 million liters) of Jet A daily and if oil prices were to approach the $ 150 - per - barrel mark reached last year, the demand for Camelina oil might end up driving farmers to grow less wheat — a staple food crop.

A generation of extremely efficient farmers increasingly sees irrigation as a nonviable alternative while mulling over a switch from water - intense cotton and wheat to rain - fed sorghum and grains

In the Middle East, says a British researcher, hunters and gatherers became farmers only when hard times forced them to collect the seeds of wild wheat and barley intensively, and process them for food.

Farmers produced about 730 million tons of wheat globally in 2014.

In his 1967 write - up of his work in the premiere issue of Psychology Today, Milgram shared one particularly riveting anecdote from the first study — that of an envelope that made its way from a wheat farmer in Kansas to the target, a divinity student's wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with just two connections.

The farmers gained cheap calories at the cost of poor nutrition, (today just three high - carbohydrate plants — wheat, rice, and corn — provide the bulk of the calories consumed by the human species, yet each one is deficient in certain vitamins or amino acids essential to life.)