Sentences with phrase «over the farm operations»

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The family farm has been around since 1904, and Schweigert recently returned home to take over the operation.

The company's operations include pig farming, pork processing plants and feedmills spread over agricultural and commercial freehold land.

Nation's Two Largest Organic Dairy Suppliers Face - Off in Court Over Ethics Earthbound Farm Sells Its Organic Produce Operation to WhiteWave for $ 600 Million

To answer that question, one needn't look any further than the dozens of damning undercover investigations into agribusiness operations released over the last several years: chickens crammed so tightly into tiny cages that they can't even spread their wings, living in the same space with the rotting corpses of their cage - mates; mother pigs unable to even turn around for months on end inside their gestation crates; factory farm workers sadistically abusing animals; and more.

Mr. Van Scoyoc criticized the Republican candidates for supervisor and town board, who he said «started very early opposing the wind farm» and are «trying to drive a wedge» between residents over the project's potential to impact the commercial fishing industry, members of which fear that the wind farm's construction and operation will destroy critically important habitat.

Glencore Xstrata's diversified operations comprise over 150 mining and metallurgical sites, offshore oil production assets, farms and agricultural facilities, employing approximately 190,000 people, including contractors.

Given the significant increases in land and quota values over the last number of years it is becoming increasingly difficult to transfer the family farm at fair market value and meet the cash requirements of paying farm debt, repaying of the parents» investment, paying income tax on the farm operations, investing in additional farm operations and upgrades, and provide a living for the children.

Organized veterinary medicine, that reaped great profits for the drug companies selling antibiotics, vaccines and a host of other drugs, never voiced concern over the proliferation of cruel factory farms, so - called concentrated animal feeding operations that now blight rural America, helped put family farms out of business and now pose significant environmental and public health risks.

Frank Valley was historically home to several Portuguese dairy operations so the Interpretive Center would serve as a starting point for a self - guided dairy farm historic hike which would loop through the valley and over Dias Ridge with informative displays along the trails indicating the location and family names of these former Azorean dairy farms.

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.

A lot of houses in close proximity to wind farms are too close to the throw zone when these things fly to pieces; as they have found in Scotland and some other countries the blades have travelled over 1.6 km striking houses, schools, highways and trucks and fly to pieces, as they will, in the coming years, as the fraudulent claims about the metal fatigue and life time operation start to surface.

Over at The Independent, the new head of the Soil Association, Helen Browning, explains why her team won't back down in the face of libel threats from a gigantic pig farming operation: «I think most people are trying to make their way in life the best way they can, with different views and perspectives on things.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS • Over five years of dedicated experience working in the farmhouse • Highly skilled in practical farm operations including plowing, planting, irrigating and fertilizing • Hands on experience of using service equipment such as tractors and milking machines • In - depth knowledge of maintaining sanitary living arrangements for farm animals

The residential treatment program at Mountain Vista Farm has been in continuous operation for over 50 years.

These include federal authority over waters of the U.S., wetlands, concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), water quality standards, and conservation issues related to the farm bill (such as swampbuster).