Sentences with phrase «scale farming for»

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.

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

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Pete and Gerry's didn't adopt the industrialized, factory - style farming that was common for egg farmers, and by the late 1990s, it didn't have the scale to supply eggs to supermarkets or large chains.

Matt explained that, while the ASPCA Adoption Center primarily focuses on finding safe and loving homes for dogs and cats, they have helped other types of companion animals, including rabbits, and worked on large - scale investigations involving a variety of farm animals.

Businesses in tangential industries may also want to consider retraining their own workers — electric utilities, for example, can retrain their coal - fired power plant workers for positions involving utility - scale solar farms.

At the other end of the scale, 50 per cent of the farms account for only 3 per cent of sales.

Today, though, it is ironic that most of the concern for not only natural preservation but related (and arguably more relevant) issues like sustainable farming or small - scale economics are dismissed as the province of Vermont vegans.

Cameron Mynott of Australian Pasture Fresh says, «it is imperative for the future of sustainable, ethical, regenerative farming, that small - scale farmers be able to run under a common - sense, outcomes - based legislation.

The AIAC called for the scheme to recognise the lower risk small - scale pastured pig and poultry farms pose, and for planning controls to be commensurate with that risk.

Your membership will add your voice to the many others standing up for small - scale farming.

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

By 2000 Pacific Farms scaled back their commercial production (which they hope to restart in the near future), but they still grow plants for customers who want to grow wasabi as a hobby (six live plants for $ 22.95 plus shipping).

The goal, to celebrate family farms, create culinary awareness for heritage breed pigs and tilt the scales to favor today's emerging chef community struggling to pay premium prices for safer, more flavorful food raised by real farmers.

Reducing Food Losses from Farm to Market, October 2014: An introduction to small - scale appropriate postharvest handling practices, with illustrations and resources for you to use in your own training programs.

A portfolio of four large - scale dairy farms in north - west Tasmania that supply milk to Murray Goulburn has been listed for sale with price expectations around $ 30 million.

As foreshadowed in The Australian Financial Review AAM Investment Group's Southern Cross Poultry Fund has just completed the acquisition of seven large - scale poultry farms north - east of Adelaide for about $ 50 million after raising $ 36.2 million of equity.

Nick Maravell Farmer: Buckeystown, MD Nick has been farming organically for more than 40 years, starting on a commercial scale in 1979.

Firmenich, Danone and Mars announced plans to make a significant investment through Livelihoods Fund for Family Farming (Livelihoods 3F) in a large - scale, innovative vanilla farming model in MadaFarming (Livelihoods 3F) in a large - scale, innovative vanilla farming model in Madafarming model in Madagascar.

Through a combination of classroom and in - field instruction, apprentices gain experience with the broad array of skills needed for success in managing a small - scale sustainable farm.

«With less competition, big companies commonly underpay independent farmers for their products, undermining the economic viability of small, family - scale farms.»

Finding this approach short - sighted, Straus spearheaded the movement for inventive farming practices and small - scale artisan dairy production critical to the survival of family farms.

While in principle AFSA supports strengthening permit triggers, application requirements and referral arrangements for genuine intensive animal industry applications (as per a new definition that excludes genuine small - scale free range farms), caution must be applied when increasing regulatory burden on the farming sector, which is already subject to a high regulatory burden.

Our submission also cites egregious examples from Victoria's meat regulator PrimeSafe, the huge impact of knee - jerk changes to regulation of raw milk on small - scale dairy farms (many of whom have now gone out of business), and the complicated business of ensuring appropriate labeling of GMO and imported ingredients while not creating an extra burden for small - scale producers who sell directly to the public.

Small - scale farms would now become classified as Broiler Farms and be subject to the Victorian Code for Broiler Farms farms would now become classified as Broiler Farms and be subject to the Victorian Code for Broiler Farms Farms and be subject to the Victorian Code for Broiler Farms Farms 2009.

Successfully scaling up organic farming is neither for the faint hearted nor those looking for the easy and fast way to riches.

And so as the Polyfaces, White Oaks, Gunthorps, Jonai, Buena Vistas, and Old Mill farms of the world toil to grow food deeply embedded in our local communities and imbued with their values of respect for people and animals and care for the land, we must support them / us, just as we must find ways to help others get onto the land to grow more food in small - scale agroecological systems.

We call on Minister for Agriculture Jaala Pulford and Minister for Planning Richard Wynne to explain why small - scale pastured pig and poultry farms are to be subjected to greater scrutiny and compliance costs than cattle feedlots, instead of being treated under the law like other grazing systems that rely on supplemental feed such as the majority of Victorian beef and dairy cattle.

«This is a system designed to encourage huge intensive poultry farms and make it much harder for small scale, sustainable farms.

The Food Sovereignty Movement and its allies advocate for size - appropriate legislation that is reflective of the true nature of small - scale, ethical farming operations.

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Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op was named Supplier of the Year for the Mid-Atlantic region for their focus on creating healthy, high - quality foods from highly maintained and enriched soils on small - scale family farms.

Chelsea are also more cynical when it comes to player recruitment and development, farming out youngsters on an industrial scale, operating questionable and occasionally illegal tactics to attain promising youngsters, and generally buying players for their immediate impact as opposed to what they might develop into, hence the fact that you could make a team of ex-Chelsea players that's probably better than Chelsea.

He has farmed and gardened biodynamically for more than thirty years, working with the land on every scale from hand work to field - scale vegetables, tending an orchard to managing dairy cows.

Mac has been the director of the Pfeiffer Center in Chestnut Ridge, NY, since 2007 and has farmed and gardened biodynamically for more than thirty years, working with the land on every scale from hand work to field - scale vegetables, tending an orchard to managing dairy cows.

Responding, Governor Ambode said the reason for inspecting the project was first to appreciate the level of investment already committed to the farm by government and then see how to scale it up where necessary.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand will be at the Jamestown Farmers Market this morning to push for passage of the Senate's version of the farm bill, after the House approved a scaled - back version.

After this successful pilot project, which attracted investments from a regional power company and Google, researchers are now looking to help other farms follow suit and expand the market for waste - to - energy systems on a national scale.

On patrol one day last fall in Blythe, another California town along the Colorado, Matuska drove his SUV looking for large green lawns in rural areas that he hadn't noticed before — a new farm field or some other sign of small - scale irrigation bringing life to a red desert.

Glover and others have also found that training women with small - scale farms, in Malawi and elsewhere in Africa, in perennial cropping techniques leads to improved nutrition for families, greater soil and agricultural resilience during fluctuations in weather conditions and sometimes, a little extra income.

Industrial - scale farms that raise animals for food — called concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), in the parlance of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency — have a number of documented impacts on the environment, mostly from the massive quantities of manure they produce.

In fact, in January, the Cornucopia Institute, which advocates for organic, family - scale farming, held her up as one of its top choices for a lower - level job, running USDA's National Organic Program.

These properties make the cells ideal for things like windows or roofs, although they are probably less suitable for large - scale commercial applications, such as solar farms, because they need more area to produce the same amount of electricity as more typical silicon - based solar cells.

But the realization that successful large - scale operations have to function like well - run farms raises the issue of competition with food crops for water and land, says agronomist Raymond Jongschaap of Wageningen University in the Netherlands.

If done on a large scale, the process would reduce the demand for land to grow food for livestock, as well as the demand for wild fish to feed to farmed fish.

In fact, Trent said, the technology is nearly cost - competitive with land - based production methods for algae biofuels that require vast industrial - scale, open - air pond farms or in closed bioreactors.

For example, large - scale organic farming relies heavily on tillage.

In fact, China's State Council in 2011 said that it planned to put $ 385 million a year toward construction of large - scale hog farms for five years, moving toward consolidation.

Moreover, when hogs are raised in crowded environments in industrial - scale farms they require greater quantities of antibiotics (pdf) to promote growth and compensate for unsanitary conditions.

For example, there has been much interest in the potential of large - scale, indoor agricultural production - often referred to as vertical farming - as a means to produce high quantities of produce.

Wildfires are usually sparked by humans clearing land, either for small - scale farming or major deforestation, Aragão says.