Sentences with phrase «scale farms with»

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

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

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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.

Food > Smart Farming Utilising technological advancements like drip agriculture and access to real - time weather data is helping both large - and small - scale farmers produce more with less.

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 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.

«We are the first business in the world to have launched an SMS platform that enables farmers to access tailored information sourced sustainably — and with the potential to scale — from within the farming community itself, so that they can increase resilience to climate change, increase crop yield and improve their livelihoods whether or not they are online.»

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.

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.

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.»

Traditional farming methods, organic agriculture, and small - scale farming, are championed while all that is associated with the Green Revolution is reviled: in short, science and technology are bad; natural, organic and small - scale is good.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are, however, some very large scale organic farms e.g. Pavich Family Farms in California with over 1 600 ha of organic land and 200 ha in conversion to orgfarms e.g. Pavich Family Farms in California with over 1 600 ha of organic land and 200 ha in conversion to orgFarms in California with over 1 600 ha of organic land and 200 ha in conversion to organic.

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.

County leaders say large - scale alternative energy farms do not provide the county with enough incentives to justify a tax deal.

Partnered with Arden Farm in East Aurora, NY to strengthen their efforts in agri - tourism, health education and small scale organic farming (2014 - ongoing)

The research team partnered a local Singaporean fish farm that supplied the team with fish scales from sea bass, snakehead and tilapia.

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.

The idea was to target three issues with traditional meat farming: protect animals from inhumane conditions and eventual slaughter; reduce the environmental damage of large - scale livestock operations; and give humans healthier meat and better food security.

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.

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.

Traditional farming methods, organic agriculture, and small - scale farming, are championed while all that is associated with the Green Revolution is reviled: in short, science and technology are bad; natural, organic and small - scale is good.

These small scale urban farms range from simple raised bed gardens to elaborate mini-homesteads with various types of animals, bees and ponds.

horse crazy country girl with many interests, such as small scale farming, gardening, hiking, cycling, kayaking.

As the two men note, while such «regenerative» farming is usually associated with minuscule organic farms, it can work just as efficiently and profitably on a bigger scale.

A system of «mini-fields» has also been explored with pupils scaling down their farming operations to a mini-field of just 1m2.

Local farmers welcome children onto their farms to share experiences of food production at a commercial scale, and are often invited to visit the schools, along with local food heroes, to give presentations and share their passion for food and farming.

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

And when I contacted the auction's owner to ask for an interview, he was welcoming and spent an entire day with me, talking openly about his personal history, his current business practices and even taking me to meet the types of breeders he respects — breeders whose dogs, when I got to their commercial - scale farms, were running and playing in spaces as big as many suburban backyards and even ballfields, dogs who came up to me to say hello and, in most cases, seemed just as happy and normal and healthy as my own two spoiled mutts at home.

Nobody is arguing that dogs should be treated badly, kept in cages their entire lives, denied socialization with other dogs, or anything of the sort, but to suggest that there are no commercial - scale breeders doing a good job with their dogs is a comment that could only be made by somebody who has never taken the time to go out and spend time on the farms owned by all kinds of commercial - scale breeders.

They contributed their expertise on farmed animal issues, writing several of the coalition's political propositions.133 They have also shared knowledge and collaborated with a variety of French and other European organizations on a smaller scale.134

«Other major factors include tractability of such an approach and the scale of suffering that the most cruel practices cause -LSB-...] The final argument is that these tactics are not the only ones in animal advocacy so while helping so many animals is crucial, we can also reach to other, more receptive audiences with arguments against animal farming and suffering.»

On the return we will stop in the towns of Pinchollo, Maca and Yanque, with their beautiful colonial churches, as well as in the viewpoints of Choquetico and Antahuilque, from where we will observe impressive andenería farming platforms of the valley, and tombs in pre-Incas scale models.

Our extensive wine selection, handpicked by sommelier Jeremy Shiell features boutique wines from small - scale, family owned farms and growers expressing wine of terroir with minimal interventions or additions.

The grounds and the scale of his operation are amazing, and so is his studio, where the «First Marks» series is receding behind newer works, where chicken coops are migrating off the farm directly onto his canvases, and narratives take the form of the artist wrestling with Abe, his 800 - pound aging great boar who has fathered most of his heritage - line pigs while serving as a complicated alter - ego and muse to the artist.

Around a farm is a male figure carrying another man in minuscule scale with parental caress.

I see smaller scale regenerative farming but combined with maybe laboratory creation of foods.

I caught up with Foley by e-mail, saying that the paper appeared to paint a picture in which cereals, particularly, benefit from fertilizer and the other inputs favored in large - scale farming, while specialty crops can offer smaller farming operations sustainable levels of income.

In partnership with design engineer Barry Griffin, Stone Barns has identified 34 appropriate - scale tools for small, sustainable farms.

The testing of a small - scale wind tower in Castine is the second phase of a five - phase plan (they hope) will end with the implementation of full - scale offshore wind farms about 20 miles off Maine's coast.

In addition to the wind farm, I believe that Neoen proposes a grid - scale battery with a power capacity of 20 megawatts and energy storage of 34 megawatt - hours.

Those payments, however, could be aggregated to fund larger - scale education campaigns, with the payments based in part of estimated emission - reductions from farms or even from avoided deforestation.