Sentences with phrase «working farms working»

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The Princess Royal's country residence, Gatcombe Park, includes a working farm that features both crops and livestock.
The fee could be based on a percentage of their gross farm receipts (the total of receipts from all agricultural products sold, government program payments and contract work done on other farms), with bigger farms shouldering more of the cost.
You read about the struggle of 13 - year - old Clarisse Kambire working a cotton farm, subsisting on one meal a day or less, and you despair.
Mostly, they just kept an eye out for farm work and joined in.
Duncan, whose work involves developing new precision ag tools in partnership with farming communities, predicts the farm of the not - so - distant future will be entirely remote - controlled.
The loading and sliding mechanisms worked fine, but the chassis wasn't rugged enough to withstand the rigors of farm work.
The biggest upgrade came in 1998, when the brothers stopped building Stingers on used trash trucks and instead contracted with the maker of those trash trucks to create a chassis optimized for farm work.
Hint for those who work in a cubicle farm: This is not at your desk.
Imrie - Situnayake and his partners used to work in the tech sector, and they're trying to bring Silicon Valley rigour and data - driven analysis to insect farming.
«Crowdfunding sites have played a huge role in helping producers figure out what can work,» says Dan Imrie - Situnayake, who runs Tiny Farms, an Oakland, Calif., consulting firm that helps insect producers get off the ground.
To really make peer - to - peer learning work in sales, there's another step required: peer - to - sales - enablement - to - peer (just like farm - to - table actually is farm - to - kitchen - to - table).
The law of averages says most people worked on a farm.
«We're seeing the mature technology companies trying to energize their work environments, getting rid of cube farms and investing in facilities to compete for talent,» said Kevin Schaeffer, a principal at architecture and design firm Gensler in San Jose.
The startup, with its focus on organic farming and farmers, grabs eyeballs considering the fact that it works closely with farmers and buys at premium prices their herbal produces.
Hmm, for some reason it's taking a bit too long to farm this out, so I click over to GetMeATeam, which provides teams of three or more people who will work in tandem to do larger projects.
A previous version of this article stated that the MFA investigator worked at one Briarwood Farms facility with about 20,000 hens.
Though land is plentiful, urban farmers must secure land suitable for farming and work around city zoning and licensing.
Paul Vaughan - France, owner of the farm, told The Times: «I will take the images as good feedback and will do everything I can to work on every aspect of my husbandry.
The festival in turn funds the Red Ants Pants Foundation, which gives grants to develop leadership roles for women and to support rural communities and working family farms and ranches.
«Growing up on a farm in New England, and then working in the field after college with Outward Bound, the entire time I needed to wear good, heavy - duty work pants, but there was nothing available.
Five full time employees work on the farm that Score says is on track to meet long term financial goals.
Today, Youn and the people he has worked with have doubled or tripled the annual crop yield on more than 250,000 farms in nine years, which has impacted more than 1.3 million children.
Their work, which they're conducting with cheese maker Jasper Hill Farm, is providing an unprecedented look at the fungi and bacteria that do things like make Camembert gooey and blue cheese blue.
Yes, but the NBA's Brennan says, «State Farm has such a strong association with the league that we feel it will work
While some entrepreneurs are building up the Detroit urban farming industry, others are hard at work using the materials of abandoned homes to create an industry of craft products.
When Wattpad launched in 2006 as an online — and now mobile — community for readers and writers to share free books, CEO Allen Lau and his team were working out of a drab cubicle farm in Toronto's north end, with bankers and accountants for neighbours.
Even as millions of Chinese citizens leave the farm and flock to cities looking for work, there are fewer manufacturing jobs in China than there were 20 years ago.
Growing up on her dad's farm (her parents separated, and each ran one), her work ethic has often been described as meticulous.
In looking for «nonnormal job» endeavors, Tetrick got talking to his childhood friend Josh Balk, who worked on reducing dependence on factory - farmed chicken eggs for the Humane Society of the United States.
Farm operators have come to rely on immigrants as natives have shied away from grueling agriculture work, even as pay for these jobs has increased.
(His sister, Susie, still lives in Omaha and focuses on her philanthropic work; his brother, Howard, owns a farm in Decatur, Ill.) Above all, the key thing about Peter Buffett is that he appears to be absolutely and completely normal.
Americans working in farm service, input, processing and marketing could find their livelihoods at risk if Trump's immigration policies come to fruition.
The most famous example of this is in farming, where one man with a big tractor now often does the work that a dozen men might have done in years gone by.
With a working farm, craft brewery, and one of the deepest wine collections in America (160,000 - plus bottles) this is foodie nirvana.
When the U.S. ended the bracero program 1964, which had allowed large numbers of Mexicans to work on U.S. farms, neither the wages nor the employment rates of U.S. farm workers rose, according to recent research by economists Michael Clemens, Hannah Postel and me.
When the tap water gets cloudy, she drives around to the nine gas well pads within a mile of her farm, writing down which ones have trucks and men working.
Those corporate executives are used to farming out the work instead of figuring out how to do things on their own.
On Thursday, he said technical fixes were in the works to address farmers» concerns that the changes would impair their ability to bequeath the family farm to the next generation.
A: Rooted in Hope will be working on a new project focused on water and sustainable farming practices with the City of Refuge in Ghana.
Very few people want to work in a cubicle farm, and in many industries open floor plans encourage spontaneous brainstorming sessions as well as camaraderie.
(It's already working with two farms in Tennessee; consumers can order their goods online and pick them up at several designated locations.)
It is a working farm, but I don't do the work.
The company works with 153 Canadian family farms (globally, that number is a stunning 3,850).
«As a farm boy growing up in Indiana, my parents instilled in me a very good work ethic, but when I went to college at 17, I had no goal, no idea where I wanted to be.»
Artificial intelligence will rock the job market, your company will need a Chief of Work, and cubicle farms will disappear.
Current company / position: DiGirolamo currently works as a senior business systems analyst at Driscoll's, a family - owned berry farming company.
The market for Polaris» machines, popular for farm work, hunting and sport riding, was growing in the south.
Coda's Heze employees have experience working on farms, not in factories, so it takes Coda extra time to train them.
Over 90 % of people worked on farms, and now it's under 2 %.
The head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration once called Case Farms «an outrageously dangerous place to work
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