Sentences with phrase «wheat farmers»

Wheat farmers in particular worry about how tariffs would affect their market, which has gone through a turbulent stretch in recent years.

* Please don't get too hung up on the specific example of wheat farmers, it could be any other sector of the economy.

«We have wheat farmers from around the world who visit and say, «We wouldn't plant wheat where you do,»» he said.

Against a backdrop of concerns over food and transportation costs and with demand for local food growing, small wheat farmers see an opportunity.

Founded in 1970 by «Prince» Leonard George Casley as a protest over government quotas on wheat farmers, Hutt River is the oldest micronation in Australia.

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.

EL BATAN, Mexico (August 24,2016)- High returns to global wheat research Building on more than a half - century of proven impacts, the global wheat improvement system led by CGIAR centers continues to be the chief source for wheat farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America of critical traits such as high yields, disease resistance and enhanced nutrition and quality.

It allows you to multitask, and that (allows) me to spend more time with my family,» Montana wheat farmer told Steven Swank.

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

In the U.S., white wheat farmers were once concentrated in the Northwest.

«As the agricultural community warned when the President made the announcement, withdrawing from TPP was shortsighted and unnecessary, and now US wheat farmers could take the hit,» he said.

American wheat farmers and a few technology businesses were the only others substantively damaged.

Shepherd's Grain is a group of 33 family wheat farmers in the Pacific Northwest and the wheat is milled in Spokane.

The classic example is Wickard v. Filburn, a Supreme Court case from 1942 where limiting how much wheat a farmer could grow was found to be properly regulated as «interstate commerce», even though it was neither interstate nor commerce since he was using the wheat himself, because he might have otherwise bought the wheat.

The problem is that those former factory workers in Detroit do not move to Iowa and become wheat farmers.

So wheat farmers * in Iowa are competing with car makers in Detroit.

Now, poor old Theresa May didn't do very well in the general election after it turned out there were more wheat farmers in marginal constituencies than she thought!

Borlaug's modifications increased the productivity of Mexican wheat farmers sixfold over traditional varieties.

«Discovery should save wheat farmers millions of dollars.»

Resource - conserving cropping practices from WHEAT, such as more targeted use of nitrogen fertilizers or sowing wheat into untilled soils and crop residues, can raise wheat farmers» incomes while curbing greenhouse gas emissions, if widely adopted, he added.

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) under UK aid, the DGGW project aims to strengthen the delivery pipeline for new, disease resistant, climate - resilient wheat varieties and to increase the yields of smallholder wheat farmers.

On another front, Texas A&M's Unmanned Aerial Systems Project is providing a new perspective to help wheat farmers manage diseases and water stress, predict yield in crop - breeding programs, and measure livestock forage production.

In this western, cattlemen and wheat farmers tire of being bilked by a buyer with a monopoly on the only railroad in Texas and so endeavor to build their own town / railroad stop where sellers will receive a fair price for their goods.

Wheat farmer Tom Giesel (left), Land Institute founder Wes Jackson (center) and Tom Friedman discuss sustainable agriculture in the fields of Kansas.

The U.S. embassy in Beijing reports that Chinese wheat farmers in some areas are now pumping from a depth of 300 meters, or nearly 1,000 feet.

The companies buy crops across the planet - from soybean growers in Brazil to wheat farmers in Ukraine - and supply the world's largest food companies such as Nestle and Kraft Heinz.

The child of wheat farmers on the plains of Saskatchewan, Canada, Martin became an American citizen in 1950.

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.

Evolution is, in fact, a work in process, as dog breeders all over the world, along with horse breeders, wheat farmers, rose growers, cattle farmers and all other professions that depend on the traits of plants or animals to make their living, selectively breed for desired traits.

«We believe that it is in the nation's best interests, and the interests of the wheat farmers we represent, to challenge trade distorting policies to the maximum extent possible within WTO rules.»

Canada's wheat farmers are worried about where to store a bumper crop.

DuPont patented Levitt's remarkable discovery in 1978 and four years later introduced its Glean herbicide to wheat farmers.

And his first boyhood weapon was a Daisy air rifle, a prize he earned by selling garden seeds to wheat farmers.

Wheat farmers, for example, will endure.

In his 1967 write - up of his work in the premiere issue of Psychology Today, Milgram shared one particularly riveting anecdote from the first study — that of an envelope that made its way from a wheat farmer in Kansas to the target, a divinity student's wife in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with just two connections.

In a book published in 1971, India's Green Revolution, Economic Gains and Political Costs, she reported that farmers with larger landholdings, such as the wheat farmers in the country's north, benefited far more than small - scale rice farmers in the south and east, or landless labourers.

The basics of trade is that something is worth more to one person than another; a wheat farmer has more wheat that they could possibly eat, and so it has no value other than what they can get by selling it, while an accountant will starve if they do not have any food and thus is willing to pay what the market demands.

Her father, a wheat farmer, died when she was 2; her mother supported the family by selling real estate.

Corn farmers received $ 51 billion in subsidies between 1995 and 2005; wheat farmers were given $ 21 billion; cotton farmers netted $ 15 billion; and tobacco farmers were handed $ 530 million in taxpayer - funded subsidies.