Sentences with phrase «smaller growers who»

Production costs (especially labour) continued to be an issue for growers, especially smaller growers who do not benefit from economies of scale.

Instead, it buys from Coops and small growers who enter into a social and environmental standard promoted by Britt.

Not exact matches

But chief executive Darren De Bortoli said the biggest threat to his business - as well as other winemakers - was not the rising dollar, which was making exports uncompetitive, nor the power of the two leading supermarket chains, but the «rorting» of the WET tax rebate by small uneconomic growers who are flooding the market with cheap loss - making wine.

Our chips come from Colombia where they provide income for some of the smaller growers and employment for local people - including a number of widowed women who have to support their families.

They're not only made of love but from love — hand - grown on approximately 5,000 small, family farms throughout Central and Southern California, by growers who nurture the fruit in the tree for over a year.

They are concerned that the lack of labeling of genetically modified foods leaves consumers who wish to avoid them unprotected, and that small growers could face possible patent infringement lawsuits if their crops become inadvertently cross-contaminated with a genetically engineered variety.

Unfortunately, some small seed companies and «cottage» seed industries either do not practice proper isolation techniques or buy their seed from growers who do not.

«The smaller stature is likely a response to the cooler temperatures,» says Paul Cooper, the Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station greenhouse grower who maintains the collection.

A study by Qaim had shown that small - scale farmers in India who grew genetically modified cotton had larger harvests compared with conventional cotton growers.

A lifelong farmer himself, he admires the «small yet energetic» group of growers who work in a way that respects the earth beneath their feet.

My heart truly went out to many small growers I spoke with who struggle to make a living to supply us with one of the most precious commodities known to mankind: ancient grains.

As I wrote in a blog post last year, the burdens imposed by agricultural carbon offset protocols can be high, excluding participation from growers (particularly smaller ones) who lack the time and resources to take them on.

«Look at smaller, local growers rather than those who buy from others.