Sentences with phrase «own this family farm»

That same year, William Matlack died, and Larry and Bill began renting the family farm from their mother.
The 500 - acre family farm where it all started is five miles away.
Climbing onto the seat of the self - loading hay stacker developed by his father and uncle, he set off from the family farm in Kansas on a two - month sales tour that took him around the Texas Panhandle, to Southern California, New Mexico, and Nevada.
Larry, 70, still operates the family farm.
Zhang and his wife have now returned to their home village and are back on the family farm with their children and parents, raising 200 head of cattle.
The family farm has been around since 1904, and Schweigert recently returned home to take over the operation.
When Mary Grams, now 84, lost her engagement ring while pulling weeds at her family farm in Alberta, Canada, in 2004, she thought it was gone forever.
David Schwabauer, a fourth - generation farmer in the county, said overtures by companies that want to drill new wells amid his avocado and lemon groves are prompting difficult conversations about how to manage the family farm.
The festival in turn funds the Red Ants Pants Foundation, which gives grants to develop leadership roles for women and to support rural communities and working family farms and ranches.
He personally sources the coffee he imports, forming long - term relationships with the small family farms and cooperatives that are his growers.
The film was shown in movie theaters and the song was sold on iTunes, with 60 cents from every purchase benefiting the Chipotle Cultivate Foundation, which funds initiatives that support sustainable agriculture and family farming.
With the rules in development, there are concerns that cottage - industry growers could be driven out by corporate - type businesses, much the way large - scale agribusiness doomed family farms in the Midwest.
On Thursday, he said technical fixes were in the works to address farmers» concerns that the changes would impair their ability to bequeath the family farm to the next generation.
Instead of uniform, cheap costs, these chains emphasize terms such as «artisan,» «organic» and «family farms
«In the mid-80s, some of them mortgaged their family farms to buy bankrupt ethanol plants.
I spend spare time with them on a family farm.
His father, Feodor, looked after the family farm and his mother, Berta, ran a lodging house on the property during the summer.
FireFly buys its goat milk from seven family farms near the creamery, still makes its cheeses by hand, and has made a firm commitment to paying its workers a living wage.
The company works with 153 Canadian family farms (globally, that number is a stunning 3,850).
Against her father's wishes, Elizabeth Arden left her impoverished family farm in Canada for Manhattan, an intoxicating place of wealth and possibility.
Together, with the help of four strapping sons, they still run the family farm: 27 cultivated acres of cranberries on 350 acres of land.
We are hoping to retire early at 60 or so on the family farm (no land cost).
Tim Kelly, who runs a family farm in Saskatchewan, agrees.
«Never bet the family farm on one stock.
The well - funded dairy lobby spends a great deal of money (an estimated $ 80 to $ 100 million each year — ironically paid for by the higher prices consumers pay), persuading federal and provincial politicians that supply management «protects the family farm,» «ensures food security» and that, because these farmers are so numerous, doing anything to upset them would be political suicide.
So much for «protecting the family farm
· Trump's plan would replace the estate tax with a capital gains tax on the appreciation of inherited assets of more than $ 5 million of gains per decedent or $ 10 million per married couple, subject to some exemptions for small businesses and family farms
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At The Shealy Group, we have personal experience with family farms which helps us to connect with our agribusiness clients on a personal level to help them manage their business and assets.
Dairy cows at a family farm in Chilliwack, B.C. Sylvain Charlebois, a noted academic on food policy issues, says the federal government's proposed tax reforms will hurt family farms.
Family farms, restaurants, other food businesses and the rural economy will suffer under federal tax proposals for small businesses,
Gavin decided to pursue environmental law while working on a small family farm, an experience which changed his perspective on the world and began connecting him to the land in new ways.
For a variety of reasons, few of which relate to government policy, and more of which can be attached to market economics, the family farms are being swallowed up by corporate interests, whose MAIN concerns relate more to returns on investment and less on responsible husbanding of the land.
It also needs to be pointed out that, unfortunately, the days of the family farm are numbered.
However the Wildrose gets everyone fired up thinking «that damn Rachel Notley wants to destroy the family farm» and rather than try to find the facts out people just believe what comes out of the WR as the god given truth.
As I've said previously I bet the Notley government cares more about the family farm than the Wildrose does.
So maybe the Wildrose and Derek Fildebrandt doesn't really care as much about the «family farm» as they do for the larger commercial agriculture operation that employs workers but still wants to be labelled a «family farm».
He went on to work as a Treasury analyst before returning to the family farm in Dipton and standing in the seat known today as Clutha - Southland — a post he held until his decision in 2014 to stand as a List MP only.
If anything I believe the NDP is probably way more supportive of the family farm than farmers really know.
Unfortunately I also know that the government does not seem to have done a good job in having more real input from the family farm people.
He enrolled in a pre-law program at the University of Alberta, but returned home to assume responsibility for the family farm following a tragedy.
We will be asked to end estate taxes in the name of saving small businesses and family farms, even though the Tax Policy Center estimates that such businesses account for only fifteen hundredths of 1 percent of all estate tax revenue.
In the United States, the thousands of deserted rural towns resulting from the replacement of family farming by agribusiness are one witness to this destruction.
Tales of family farms and businesses broken up to pay the estate tax are basically rural legends; hardly any real examples have been found, despite diligent searching.
Helpless to grow our own food — mechanization has destroyed the family farm, and we live mostly uprooted in cities and suburbs we are dependent upon the religion that threatens our faith.
The just price of shoes should provide a living wage for shoemakers; the just price of milk should preserve the family farm.
Societal mores have been fine with children working, not just chores, on family farms and such throughout history.
In addition, even today, I think, there are exceptions for children on family farms.
My use of the DOL family farm regulations to take a pot - shot at the Porchers below, has led to my learning about the REINS bill, thanks to our astute commenters Brian and CJ Wolfe.
Small family farms have also been unsustainable.
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