Sentences with phrase «scale farming»

Some organically oriented farmers do over time, but it's safe to assume that other large scale farms don't or don't bother much.

What do you think, do small scale farms deserve financial support, a piece of the federal pie?

The company plans to operate large - scale farms with a minimum of 500 cows (the Victorian average is 300 per farm).

I am a highly skilled military veteran with substantial experience in soil sampling, cultivation, and crop management for large - scale farm operation.

How likely are they to approve large - scale farming for energy?

The following chapter examines food production, comparing industrial and smaller - scale farming practices.

Many large - scale farms rely heavily on immigrant labor.

Heavy commercial and large scale farms keep them busy with commercial division.

I don't think even the highest - yield current large - scale farming techniques will provide enough food, will they?

I think the issue is people tend to view wind turbines with a large scale farming mentality.

It's fitting that molasses can be used to restore soil's natural health in gardens and small scale farming.

These people who regard humans as nothing more than a source of protein for mountain lions have a long history of opposing large - scale farming for food.

What this means is taking advantage of more than just large scale farming.

«The area of North Carolina where we are located has seen an increase in small scale farming in the last five to 10 years,» Ainspan explains.

Viva Naturals doesn't source its coconuts from large - scale farms where machines pop thousands of coconuts off the trees every day.

Other initiatives have included the development of new rice varieties, improvement of rice farm management, deployment of small - scale farm machinery, and strengthening of rice expertise.

The proposal to allow cattle feedlots of up to 1,000 cattle in the Farming Zone without a permit nor a setback from neighbours, while 100 pigs or 450 poultry in highly mobile systems trigger the notice and review process, suggests that there may not merely be ignorance of small - scale farming systems, but something more sinister at play.

I want to emphasize this because the new Switch Edition is the first full - scale Farming Simulator title to come to a Nintendo platform.

is a small - scale farming simulator where you raise crops, befriend villagers, and start up your own successful farm — all the while (potentially) pursuing one of the candidates for marriage to eventually build your own family.

The artist's political choice of Shade Cloth, used in large - scale farming on the African continent and beyond, will speak to the colonial appropriation of land from indigenous communities and the manipulation of the natural environment for economic gain.

Honey is also a fantastic product, I can't imagine how small scale farming of honey is detrimental too the bees or our bodies.

While Nso values and parenting techniques generally characterize small - scale farming populations, especially in Africa, hunter - gatherers are another story, says anthropologist Barry Hewlett of Washington State University in Vancouver.

ANCIENT METHANE: Some scientists argue for an Anthropocene, stretching far back to the start of wide - scale farming at least 10,000 years ago.

«Small - scale farming tends to be relatively more efficient than large landholding enterprises... which continue to keep considerable amounts of land idle,» it said.

The facts range from the most basic to advanced (such as the definition of hydroponics) and include both small - and large - scale farming production.

Simply because of what this patch is and the kind of small - scale farming games the Harvest Moon ones are, these English - language patches occupy a really interesting space in the discussion around life in rural United States communities.

They are creating small - scale farms near urban areas hungry for quality produce and willing to pay a premium.»

Right now we have to make highrise apartments and larger scale farms etc more efficient and less polluting and force it legislatively if needed.

The actual production of palm oil from palm fruits is a highly polluting process, producing solid and liquid waste that contaminate surrounding resources, further disrupting land productivity and remaining small - scale farm activities.

Small - scale farming produces most of the food in Africa.

Large scale farm management.

Taya Brown is a Ph.D. student in the Horticulture Department at Texas A&M University focused on food security issues, specifically related to small - scale farming in rural areas, and monitoring and evaluation of international agricultural development projects.

David McCall from DairyNZ said large - scale farms with feedlots of up to 30,000 cows makes for a much...

The company has been investing in farmland since 2004 and operates two large - scale farming operations totaling 28,000 acres of grain production.

First, the Rodale Institute farm is comprised of both large - scale and small - scale farming systems (acres of agronomic field crops and pasture planted alongside hand - managed demonstration gardens) to show farmers, researchers and the general public ways in which the NOP Certification Standards can be employed and met on both scales.

I want to emphasize this because the new Switch Edition is the first full - scale Farming Simulator title to come to a Nintendo platform.

In the seven - minute video after the jump, QuantumShift.tv turns its lens to the carbon emissions caused by large - scale farming practices used in growing much of the food in the United States, Canada and the UK.

(More) Friends of Mineral Town is a small - scale farming simulator where you raise crops, befriend villagers, and start up your own successful farm — all the while (potentially) pursuing one of the candidates for marriage to eventually build your own family.

The artist's choice of Shade Cloth, used in large - scale farming on the African continent and beyond, is a political one, intended to speak to the colonial appropriation of land from indigenous communities and the manipulation of the environment for economic gain.

Opinions varied regarding which industries were best suited, and particularly about the suitability of large - scale farming for organic certification, but all agreed that more small - scale organic aquaculture will be likely for specialist markets in the future.

Yet from the backyard SPIN farmers making a living on less than an acre to the rooftop farms and community gardens of New York, the renaissance of small scale farming is not just showing us that farms can look different to how we've been told, but farmers can too.

Southern Portugal is hilly, but inland this region sees the least rainfall making it suitable for livestock grazing but not large scale farming.

«We knew that a larger scale farm could be attractive and profitable in the long run.»

Gonzalez had never grown anything, let alone handled large - scale farming.

As much as Trump complains about Mexico taking jobs away from Americans, the truth is that NAFTA opened up the markets in Mexico to American goods to such an extent that most of the gasoline in Mexico (70 % now) comes from the U.S.. Most of Mexico's corn and poultry and many other farmed goods come from the U.S. also, as U.S. industrial farming was already far more efficient than Mexico's small scale farms.

Increasingly agronomists like the UK's Jules Pretty are demonstrating that yields are highest not on industrial - scale farms, but on five - acre and ten - acre spreads where intense concentration can be brought to bear on each square meter of cropland.

«What's striking to me is that carrageenan has no nutritional value,» says Charlotte Vallaeys, director of farm and food policy at the Cornucopia Institute, an organic watchdog group that promotes family - scale farming.