Sentences with phrase «small scale farms»

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

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.

«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.

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

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

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

She works as a public servant in the town's municipal government and maintains a small scale farm.

This monoculture is expanding at the expense of natural forests and wildlife and land share by other livelihoods, such as traditional small scale farming (cassava, plantain, yam, etc) that feeds the country's increasingly growing population.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Martins is, how to raise the N520, 000 which I believe would enable me, start off / float a small scale catfish farm.»

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.

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.

Some small - scale farmers use the same feed the battery farms use, which is what you're trying to avoid in the first place.

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.»

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?

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.

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

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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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.

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.

Fairtrade - certified vanilla indicates that it was grown by small - scale farmers in developing countries who receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices.

Fairtrade Certified Pure Vanilla ensures small - scale farmers in developing countries receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices, which in return, stabilizes vanilla producing communities and protects the environment.

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.

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.

The first step is to redirect public money from factory farming and agribusiness towards small - scale agroecological family farms.

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.

Our organic heirloom potatoes come from small - scale family farms in rural southwestern Wisconsin.

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.»

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.

Fairtrade Certified Vanilla ensures that small - scale farmers in developing countries receive a fair price and use sustainable farming practices, stabilizing vanilla - producing communities and protecting the environment.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.»

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.

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 aFarming 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 afarming systems, but something more sinister at play.