Sentences with phrase «over small farms»

It seems ridiculous to continually give money to farms regardless of the price for commodities — it just gives them a further advantage over small farms that could truly use the subsidy.

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The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

Our Premium Maca Powder is grown organically on small family farms in pristine conditions at over 13,000 ft elevation, in the slopes of the Peruvian Andes.

For Vegetarian Option - use veggie bacon (like Morningstar Farms) cut strips into very small pieces and cook in a frying pan over medium - high heat.

Ingredients: 2 cups dry lentils (rinsed and pick over for impurities) 5 cups water 8 ounces SuDan Farms Boneless Lamb Shoulder (Medium cubes) 2 cloves of garlic (minced) 1 onion (minced) 1 bunch of Italian parsley (minced fine) 1 carrot (small dice) 1 parsnip (small dice) 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1 Tablespoon sherry vinegar 1 Tablespoon NW Elixirs # 2 Verde Hott Salt and ground black pepper to taste Chervil to garnish Instructions: In one quart pot bring lentils and water to boil, reduce to a simmer and cook until lentils are tender.

He and his family have operated a small grass based dairy farm in northern Wisconsin for over 20 years and have been members of Organic Valley since 2007.

Daniel Peterson cupped beans from all over the farm, and discovered the pleasant citrusy flavor present in the mixed beans from the farm as a whole were being flavored by some outstanding beans from a 50 hectare plot in one small valley at the high end (1550 m) of the farm: the Esmeralda Especial.

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.

Smaller farms and more egalitarian conditions ameliorated unrest over the 19th and 20th centuries.

As the food supply chain in Australia became steadily more centralised over the decades, the viability of the small - scale, diversified family farming model was increasingly threatened, as Gary explained:

There is a part of California that has always been subtly homey to me; My grandparents owned a small farm in the northern part of the state for most of my life, and I would visit over the summer to chase the chickens around.

Since I was sworn in, I've made over 660 stops across the district at small businesses, farms, schools and more speaking with the hardworking families I'm proud to represent.

An additional 9,000 small - to - mid-sized farms and over 1 million small businesses would benefit due to the change, the Senate majority said.

The proposal expands the eligibility of a small business to include any business that files under PIT regardless of how the business is structured; raises the income eligibility threshold from $ 250,000 to $ 500,000 when the business entity income is less than $ 1.5 million; eliminates the employee requirement; increases the exemption from 5 percent to 15 percent for small business income and from 5 percent to 20 percent for farm income; increases the corporate tax threshold from $ 390,000 to $ 500,000; and reduces the corporate business income rate for small businesses from 6.5 percent to 2.5 percent over two years.

Cloud computing — outsourcing computational tasks over the Internet — could give home - computer users unprecedented processing power and let small companies launch sophisticated Web services without building massive server farms.

Visit a sustainable farm instead of taking that helicopter trip; opt for bus tours over solitary road trips; and support small, local shops instead of brand - name megastores.

Coombs also sources maple syrup from over 3,000 small independent family farms that share our commitment to quality, environmental stewardship and sustainable forest management.

And they are all sourced from small family dry farm vineyards all over the world.

Dry Farm Wines works with small family vineyards all over the world to provide pure, natural wines that are also... get this... sugar free!

It's available for an annual fee as a website app and mobile app (for iPhone and Android), featuring over 100,000 store locations, small local farms, 15,000 researched and approved products, and a search feature to find locations near you or out of town.

Georges and the eldest son, Constant (Nicolas Giraud), intermittently visit the farm on small periods of leave from battle over the years, intensifying the drama and suspense, as the audience doesn't know if it will be their last time visiting or not.

Meanwhile, the war spreads out over the land and threatens to overtake even their small farm, bursting the only bubble of comfort they've all felt in their lives.

McMinnville, which used to be a small farming town, has tripled its population and transformed itself over the last generation.

As we continued south, we blasted up full - sized sand dunes, through a massive Brussel sprout farm, over nearly impassable silt hills, and past small cities, abandoned churches, dead cattle, and palatial estates to end up close to where we started on the first day.

D. J. Schwenk is an unforgettable character: A football - loving 15 - year - old who takes over running her family's small Wisconsin dairy farm when her dad is injured.

Shana Slater doesn't realize that her life is about to change when she pulls into the Lapp farm in Leola, Pennsylvania, to inquire about renting a small apartment over a mule shed.

Over the last decade, the USA has lost an average of 300 farms a week, these are mostly small farms.

Located just over 30 miles north of Little Rock, Conway began as a small farming community but its economic focus has since shifted to education.

Over 1300 large and small rescued animals are currently being cared for in their sanctuary near the city and their «Kindness Farm».

Factory farming has been developed over the course of the last half - century to maximize production and profit by crowding the greatest number of animals together into the smallest possible space.

Thompsonville Veterinary Clinic supports a large rural large and small animal territory and their farm services have doubled over the last year, while our small animal appointments continue to build.

As an open admission shelter, Lollypop Farm takes in animals of all kinds (dogs, cats, small animals, birds, reptiles, farm animals, etc) from all over the state of New York - and beyFarm takes in animals of all kinds (dogs, cats, small animals, birds, reptiles, farm animals, etc) from all over the state of New York - and beyfarm animals, etc) from all over the state of New York - and beyond.

We are a small family owned farm on 10 beautiful acres in Grass Valley, California with over 25 years exp...

I inherited over 27 unaltered cats and kittens when my husbands ex wife moved out.She did not believe God wanted us to alter any living creature.So needless to say I had a mess on my hands.But with help from some very wonderful people we managed to get all fixed, vetted and re-homed, as I had a lot of close friends who had small farms, and they took a bunch each!

On the Caribbean, make organic chocolate on a small cacao farm and watch the sunset over the surf at Salsa Brava.

Dinizulu Cottage is a 2 unit house on a small game farm with a view over False Bay, Lake St Lucia.

Enjoy a 50 acre small, working farm property with over 20 acres of farming paddocks that are home to sheep, cows, horses and pigs.

Just over an hour from Brisbane, in the Lost World section of the Scenic Rim (an amazing World Heritage landscape of mountains and rainforests), is Tommerup's Dairy Farm, a small - scale operation that produces not only dairy but ethically raised pork and veal.

Farm sims have been a niche genre that has garnered a small amount of attention over the years.

This is a wonderful trend for so many reasons; young people have been leaving the farms for years, small towns have been devastated and farms grown over; now it is comeback time.

The Wildlife Conservation Society spent nearly $ 50 million over six years to create a small patch of Madagascar in the city, and to draw attention to the plight of an island with an extraordinary ecological bounty that has been relentlessly destroyed by a struggling, poor population trying to expand rice farming and find wood for fuel and construction.

Lopata was awarded the Prize for creating an ecotourism program that promotes the environmental, economic and health advantages of small family farms over large - scale factory agriculture.

A legal battle over a proposed wind farm of 63 turbines is brewing in a small community in the Thumb area of Michigan.

As for land, space isn't so much of a problem in a state where the population is barely over 800,000 (yes that's for the whole state) but it's mostly geared for farming so finding anyone who is willing to sell just a small proportion can be very diffcult.

Hello all, well this all is getting very dire, My vegetable garden is rotting in the ground, to much rain and scoring heat,, I noticed most of my trees on my 5 acre farm are browning at the top and the leaves are thinning on all of them and around 10 of them are completely dead... We live here in the carpet capital of the world and seems to me that most don't see or don't care about the sky or the trees or the air they breathe... Just this week We had to completely drain our grand kids pool and start over, with all this rain it turned green and no amount of algae killer would clear it up, The PH was insanely high...... It's the small things in life that make what's left of life on this planet........

Over time, as I've travelled around the world and visited small farming communities on every continent, I've come to appreciate that most young people don't want to be stuck in the village.

Miranda Fuller looks over the 10 turbines on Gunn's Hill Wind Farm in southwestern Ontario's Oxford County, a lush region of farmland and small cities between London and Kitchener.

For there are many large - scale solar projects both in existence and under way in Europe involving more megawatts, but very often those announcements of super-megawatt projects are really a series of smaller, interconnected PV farms spread out over a region.

As an example: a very active, very small, group calling themselves the Heartland Farmers have been very effective in increasing social conflict over a proposed wind farm in central Yorke Peninsula in SA.