Sentences with phrase «scale farming on»

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.

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One person driving less, eating less factory - farmed meat, flying less, polluting less, using less air conditioning — you know things you could do — may affect little on a global CO2 scale, but maybe today, if everyone who reads this article who cares about Thoreau's legacy, who believes in self - determination, who calls him - or herself a leader, or just wants to be one, acts by his or her values...

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.

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.

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.

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.

He told me that these are not farmed on a large scale in Trinidad, but that many people in the rural interior grow them in their yards and small farms.

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.

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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.

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

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.

The federal government's assault on small - scale family farmers who desire to market products directly from the farm to the consumer is well documented here at Health Impact News.

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.

As the largest Rainforest Certified Coffee Farm in Costa Rica, it is a pioneer in sustainable practices applied on a large agricultural scale.

The small but dedicated group originally shunned all meat on ethical and environmental grounds, opposing the way domestic livestock was kept and killed, as well as the impact that large - scale farming had on the planet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As proposed in point 3, the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» must exclude small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, and any buffers should be developed in collaboration with the local community on a case - by - case basis.

Recommendation: that after the definition of «Intensive Animal Husbandry» is revised to no longer include small - scale, low stocking density, free - range farms, that buffer distances are determined in close collaboration with communities on a case - by - case basis where intensive agriculture is proposed.

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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.

The next level, allegedly designed to better enable low - risk small - scale pastured livestock production in the Farming Zone, only allows up to 450 birds and requires a 100m setback — a prohibitive requirement on smallholdings that may be only 100m wide in some cases.

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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.

This is quail farming on a grand scale, and game is everywhere.

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.

Backyard Farms, a large - scale hydroponic tomato farm, learned that Madison Public Schools was on the wait list to receive a salad bar so they could incorporate more fresh, nutritious food into their school lunch menu.

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.

In October 1998, the government and representatives of the agricultural biotechnology industry agreed to conduct a series of closely - monitored Farm Scale Evaluations of the impact on biodiversity of herbicide - resistant genetically modified crops.

The Long Island Power Authority is one step closer to a vote on the nation's first large - scale offshore wind farm.

In 1960 he embarked on a 15 - year career in large - scale farming, as a director of Strutt and Parker (Farms) and Lord Rayleigh Farms.

In order to provide electricity on the scale of wind farms, hundreds of airborne wind turbines will need to be launched and operated, necessitating such a central hub.

Small scale agricultural farming was first initiated by indigenous communities living on Turkey's Anatolian plateau, and not introduced by migrant farmers as previously thought, according to new research by the University of Liverpool.

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.

Large - scale organic farming operations, based on a review of almost a decade of data from 49 states, are not reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says a University of Oregon researcher.

Small - scale, multilevel farms have sprung up in Britain and Wisconsin, and an organization called Growing Power hopes to break ground on a five - story project in Milwaukee within 18 months.

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.

It uses a process called gut loading — in which crickets are fed certain flavoured or nutrient - rich foods just before they are killed — to rear crickets that taste like honey and apples, or that are high in vitamin C. Bachhuber says Big Cricket Farms is planning to do the same on a bigger scale once it is fully up and running.

Another company ready to make the leap into commercial scale production of algae fuel is Sapphire Energy, which operates a 2,200 acre algae farm in New Mexico where oil is harvested across 70 open ponds and refined on site.

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.

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.