Sentences with phrase «wheat farmer who»

Well - known individuals are Simon Fishman, a successful wheat farmer who sits in the Kansas Senate.

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He acknowledges that this is a point of contention — there are Wheat Board loyalists out there who will highlight cases of farmers suffering in the wake of deregulation.

He established himself as an innovative farmer, who switched from tobacco to wheat as his main cash crop in the 1760s.

A friend and colleague of mine who happens to be a wheat farmer shared with me his real life experience with trying to compete against the Monsanto - driven corporate farms in this country.

At a reunion with 12 of 13 farmers who had been jailed for taking wheat across the border, Rick stood by his decision to participate in the act of civil disobedience.

The five top corporations are presently involved in class - action suits brought by wheat farmers in Oklahoma and Texas who accuse them of rigging grain prices.

It is to follow the footsteps of Jesus Christ who is both the shepherd and the sheep, the farmer and the wheat, the vine shoot and the wine in the chalice, the sacrifice and the sacrificer.

asked a poor farmer who thrashes wheat by hand every summer.

Meet Matt Horlacher, a farmer in Tensed, Idaho, who's working with Ardent Mills to grow White Sonora, one of the oldest surviving North America wheat varieties.

I met the farmers (Penner and Peterson Farms) who grew this wheat, right here in Minnesota and they could not be more passionate about their crops and the bread that results from their work in the fields.

«The rains have caused the kernels to start sprouting, so the warehouse has refused to buy our wheat,» said farmer Li Xiaohua, who has been waiting outside the warehouse to sell her stocks.

But talk to the farmer who wants to grow winter wheat, which requires that winter precipitation.

Among the errors in the book are the following: the wild progenitor of wheat, emmer, did not grow «only in the upper Jordan Valley around Jericho» — it grew in the hills of the Mediterranean zone (Galilee, Lebanon, southern Anatolia) and was brought into the arid Jordan valley by Neolithic farmers who learned to grow it under irrigation.

APHIS was alerted by an Oregon farmer who found that the wheat plants survived after he tried to clear his field using Roundup.

The ultimate beneficiaries of the fruits of this network are farmers who will receive improved bread wheat, durum wheat and triticale varieties.

The pair of German plant biologists who authored the piece argue that nearly extinct varieties of wheat, like einkorn and emmer (aka farro), could create new niche markets for farmers, diversify ecosystems, boost local food security, revive traditional recipes — all while satisfying consumer demand for food that makes you feel like you're traveling back to a simpler time (a Paleolithic time, perhaps?).

It tells the stories of the new wave of farmers, millers, and maltsters who are working to build a community and reinvent local grain systems by returning to traditional methods of growing and using wheat.

A wealthy, lonely, land - owning, raw - boned farmer (Shepard in his acting debut) of the Great Plains falls in love with the girlfriend (Adams) of a hot - headed wheat - field worker (Gere), who is masquerading as the field hand's sister.

Did You Know: Kingston was dubbed the «breadbasket of the Revolution» thanks to local farmers who provided Washington and his troops with wheat and other food staples throughout the war.

Wheat farmers in Sherman County who lease their land to wind developers receive annual royalty payments of between $ 2,000 and $ 4,000 for each turbine sited on their property.

It is great news for the 600 farmers who are growing it on their farms and great for the environment because previously they had imported and transported their wheat from Canada.

Roberts said the farmer who discovered the leak had harvested most of his wheat prior to the spill.

The biggest benefit to a different kind of wholesale system (besides consumers looking for a wider variety in their baked goods) would be to wheat farmers, who've seen revenues plummet on the global grain exchange.

If Minister Ritz wanted to improve transportation and farmers» grain prices, he would consult with Allen Oberg and other former directors of the farmer - elected CWB board, who not only made grain move well, but also managed to sell several classes of wheat for premiums that have since vanished.

If I had a nickel for every time that I have told the story of meeting the farmer on the prairie with wheat sticking out of his hair, or the woman in the Okanagan Valley who sold apples from her orchard on the road, or the fisherman in Nova Scotia who spoke to me with tears in his eyes about his life on the sea or the guy in the bar in Montreal who talked to me about his beloved Habs and the thousands of people in between that I have met on the road, I would be rich with money.