Sentences with phrase «scale farming of»

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

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Though Democrats have historically been viewed as the strongest supporters of renewable energy, utility - scale wind farms and solar installations are found throughout the nation — including in Republican - leaning states like Arizona, North Carolina, Oklahoma and North Dakota — and enjoy bipartisan support among Americans.

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.

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.

GEM Energy, a subsidiary of the broader Rudolph Libbe Group that also own Rudolph Libbe Inc., has built 50 MW worth of solar farms — some of them First Solar projects (including the below — and relatively unique — non-utility scale First Solar system).

New technologies, such as farm machinery and seed varieties, drove the consolidation of Prairie farms to take advantage of the greater ability to cultivate and harvest crops on a larger scale.

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

In the middle third of the U.S., wind farms have an all - in cost that is less than a third that of a new natural gas - fired plant, and wind power is also well below the cost of power from large - scale solar farms.»

Wind farming is notoriously finicky when it comes to supply, and large - scale batteries like the one Tesla will be providing in the pilot project at BP's South Dakota Titan 1 wind farm will help solve the volatility of the renewable power source.

GFI's mission of developing plant - based and cellular alternatives to animal products has the potential to reduce farmed animal suffering on a large scale.

While BCH has done all of the above BTC has bet the farm on Lightning Network to scale Bitcoin.

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.

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 Brownson did not see — what in 1840 was still far from obvious — was that a modern economy could not operate on the basis of small farms and shops, that it had an inherent drive toward a scale that was simply irreconcilable with the traditional American stress on every man his own master.

As the hitherto protected agricultural sector of the South is, in compliance with the requirements of the GATT Final Act, opened up to imports (mainly from the North) and as land laws are revised to facilitate corporate farming, there will inevitably be large - scale displacement of such communities.

The report estimated there were 15 commercial - scale vertical farms and rooftop greenhouses in North America at the time of publication.

«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.

We have been alerted to a number of farmers (in addition to me) who have asked APL to please show how the organisation is actively supporting small - scale farms, but to date we have had only platitudes.

Small - scale, low - risk farms should be excluded from the definition of «intensive» or allowed in the definition of «extensive.»

Join us in demanding change by sharing a photo of your pastured poultry or pork operation and calling on ministers to support scale - appropriate planning controls that encourage rather than hinder regenerative and ethical farming in Victoria.

And yet by conflating all sizes and types of pig and poultry farms into one category, the package of reforms released by the NSW Government presents a major risk to the future of small - scale free - range pig and poultry farming.

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.

Penny Kothe, pastured pig and poultry farmer and owner of Caroola Farm in Mulloon, notes that, «a 500m buffer means that almost all small - scale pig and poultry farms would require costly council approvals.

Why should small - scale pastured pork and poultry farms be treated like intensive sheds while cattle feedlots of 1000 cattle do not require a permit?

We carefully hand select our superfoods from family farms in traditional communities, where small - scale, sustainable practices yield products of superior quality.

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

While the majority of organic dairy farms are small - scale family farms, the United States also has large - scale corporate dairy farms as well.

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Residents and local producers are concerned about the economic, social and environmental impacts of large - scale industrial farming on the region.

In this International Year of Family Farming, farmers» leaders from every arable continent have clearly stated that the focus must be on the vast majority of the worlds farmers, small holder family farms rather than large scale agribusiness.

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.

JUST's mission statement of providing plant based meats and eggs to prevent the slaughter of farm animals and its inherent large scale ecological damage also implies a future of genetically engineered meat products created in laboratores.

There are large - scale commercial farms and many smaller coffee estates spanning from Kä «anapali to the slopes of Haleäkala and Hana.

Building on this work, the Sustainable Finance Initiative, along with other partners, will test the development and the implementation of a small - scale multi-party technical assistance and investment facility that will eventually be scaled - up to finance 10,000 cocoa farm rejuvenation projects across Côte d'Ivoire.

April 21 / Beijing / Journal of Farming — According to recent research from Beijing, People's Republic of China, «Removal of salts from protein hydrolysate mixtures on a large scale is very difficult and relatively inefficient.

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.

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.

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

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

Organic agriculture — identified as a package of intelligent and innovative farming techniques, sustainable and fair food chains based on principles that strengthen small - scale farmers and empower rural economies - are being adopted globally by governments and local authorities, carried out by millions of farmers and supported by a rapidly increasing number of consumers.

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.

In anticipation of its activities at Natural Products Expo West, The Organic Center released new research findings from the University of Virginia in collaboration with The Organic Center showing that organic farming can help reduce nitrogen pollution on a global scale.

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:

In 2017, Straus introduced his new full - scale electric feed truck to close the conservation loop on his dairy farm, proving that sustainable organic farming is a critical part of feasible solutions to reversing climate change.

Jim Soran, second - generation bean guy and co-owner of Zürsun Beans, works with farmers to grow on small - scale farms in the Snake River Canyon region of Idaho, a.k.a. the Magic Valley.

Add in the rise of small - scale hop farms and malting operations, and you have the makings of a truly local movement.

GRAIN believes that the solution to reducing GHGs is an industry - wide transition from «factory farming and agribusiness» to small - scale producers and local food systems that provide moderate production level of meat and «do so in a way that regenerates soils, provides livelihoods to rural and urban communities and makes crops and animals resilient to the vagaries of an unpredictable climate.»