Sentences with phrase «year by the agriculture»

But «if they owe money or they don't have money in their lunch account, they're not allowed to get any extra items,» said Keeney, whose meal program was honored last year by the Agriculture Department's Healthier U.S. Schools program.

Not exact matches

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

The Alpina was built by Marcel Bach, a former farmer who capitalized on his land and now seems to own much of the village, and Jean - Claude Mimran, an agriculture billionaire who moved to Gstaad to be closer to his three sons who were attending Le Rosey, the until - recently Canadian - owned $ 100,000 - per - year private school that specializes in teaching kids how to be properly rich.

Near the end of last year, Fulcrum BioEnergy closed on a $ 105 million loan guarantee through Bank of America backed by the U.S. Agriculture Department.

CSA Financing Community supported agriculture, or CSA, programs were first popularized by eco-conscious foodies; they pay local farmers a lump sum at the beginning of the year in exchange for regular deliveries of produce.

The state government has invested $ 2 million to support Western Australian agriculture by granting free entry to the IGA Perth Royal Show and local Royal Agriculture Society - affiliated shows for children aged 12 years aagriculture by granting free entry to the IGA Perth Royal Show and local Royal Agriculture Society - affiliated shows for children aged 12 years aAgriculture Society - affiliated shows for children aged 12 years and younger.

In recent years Aspen Heights students were in charge of raising and releasing into the wild 300 - 400 painted lady butterflies, 300 - 500 Chinese praying mantises, and 10,000 ladybugs — as approved by Agriculture Canada.

According to recent statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 15.8 million U.S. households — that's 12.7 percent of the total — didn't have enough food to eat at some point last year, the latest period for which numbers are available.

Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said he expects a NAFTA deal by year's end.

These include: C$ 4.5 billion to support research, training, and infrastructure at universities and colleges; a Strategic Innovation Fund that will provide C$ 1.26 billion for business innovation in the aerospace and automotive sector; a Connect to Innovate Program that will invest C$ 500 million to bring high - speed Internet to remote and rural communities by 2021; and, C$ 70 million over six years to support agriculture innovation with a focus on climate change, and soil and water conservation.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

In response, management reduced agriculture equipment production by 33 % in the second quarter year - over-year.

Record rainfall last year in Saskatchewan, which produces almost all of the country's lentils, reduced quality supplies by more than 15 per cent, Agriculture and Agri - Food Canada said.

Watermen sell about $ 55 million worth of crabs each year, by far their most valuable catch, according to the Maryland Seafood marketing office within the state Department of Agriculture.

Having rallied 21 % by the end of April, the Bloomberg Agriculture subindex is down 5.5 % year - to - date.

And you must be financing that with a 30 - year, fixed - rate mortgage backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) or U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Loans insured by the U.S. Department of Agriculture are available as 30 - year fixed rate mortgages only, and come with their own USDA Streamline Refinance program.

We [achieve our mission] by harnessing the power of markets and food technology to create alternatives to industrial animal agriculture that are delicious, cost competitive, and convenient -LSB-...] Fifteen years ago, plant - based milk represented roughly 0 % of the milk market; now it is at 10 % -LSB-...] GFI is laser - focused on replicating (and exceeding!)

Plant With Purpose began work in the Dominican Republic 27 years ago after recognizing the connection between deforestation and rural poverty, and has responded by developing a holistic program of watershed restoration, sustainable agriculture, microfinance, and Christian discipleship.

«[We're] basically challenging the country to reduce food waste by 50 percent by the year 2030,» Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told The Salt.Although the goal is admirable, it's a hard one to achieve.

It was done several years ago by the same team that did WTH and is more focused on the environmental impact of animal agriculture.

North Carolina ranks ninth in the country in terms of agricultural export value, according to a 2007 report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, with more than $ 2 billion each year in exports.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Market News reported widespread concern in 2014 about tightening organic dairy supplies, with supermarkets in many parts of the United States posting signs about organic milk shortages by the end of the year.

The agriculture giant is teaming with another West Coast innovator — Tesla Motors — to expand its number of supercharging stations from six to 13 by the end of the year.

In fact, in recent years, the Alabama Department of Agriculture & Industries has put a halt on the sale of imported Asian catfish and related fish because much of the product was contaminated by drugs banned by the FDA, according to the CFA.

The U.S. Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) announced Tuesday that after a year of delays — and a lawsuit filed against it by the Organic Trade Association (OTA)-- it has decided to withdraw the Organic Livestock and Poultry Practices (OLPP) final rule, saying it «exceeds the Department's statutory authority.»

The state's agriculture and planning ministers on Wednesday announced the changes, triggered by the embarrassing stand - off last year between Murrindindi Shire Council and wagyu beef farmer David Blackmore, when the council in north - eastern Victoria refused to grant him a permit to continue his high - profile farming operation.

Being general manager of agriculture for 10 years is described by other bankers as a «remarkable» achievement.

A surge in milk production in the United States is being forecast for the next ten years, by its Department of Agriculture (USDA).

«According to the 2012 Agriculture Census undertaken by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the average age of the American farmer is approximately 59 years old,» said Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the UDSA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

Clemens Food Group's new plant in Michigan was supported by The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD), which undertook research on pork producers in the state for three years to determine the feasibility of setting up a new processing plant in the area.

In December last year a similar conclusion was drawn by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), and in the UK by the Dairy Industry Association.

Stephen says Don continued to promote organic agriculture even throughout his later years by making trips to Brisbane's Northey Street City Farm organic market where he interacted with consumers and sold books from the United States on issues that concerned him.

Earlier this year, she was selected by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to serve as a member of the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) for Trade in Processed Foods.

Amid the latest controversy surrounding shipments to the Middle East - ignited by video footage provided to 60 Minutes by Animals Australia which has an agenda to ban live exports - federal Labor took the opportunity to attack Barnaby Joyce on agricultural «bipartisanship» saying the former Agriculture Minister rejected it four years ago.

Favre has 25 years of experience in natural resource management as an environmental engineer followed by various positions in sustainable agriculture.

After almost three years of work by a designated task force, a definition reflecting the four Principles of Organic Agriculture in a succint way was adopted in Vignola, Italy as follows:

She is an experienced organic veteran, having been appointed to a five - year term on the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsak, with her final role as board chair from 2015 — 2016.

Food that is ultimately lost or wasted consumes about one - quarter of all water used by agriculture each year, requires cropland area the size of China to be grown, and generates about eight percent of global greenhouse gas emissions annually.

In the 216 years since European occupation and colonization of Australia, huge changes have been wrought upon the landscape, many of them driven by an agriculture that has largely been oriented towards production of commodities — wheat, sheep, beef, dairy, sugar — for export.

Food that is harvested but ultimately lost or wasted consumes about one - quarter of all water used by agriculture each year.

On September 16, 2015, in alignment with Target 12.3 of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Exit the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and EPA announced the first ever domestic goal to reduce food loss and waste by half by the year 2030.

'' [We're] basically challenging the country to reduce food waste by 50 percent by the year 2030,» Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack tells The Salt.

This year's annual gathering marked the first time the conference was held in the United States and the first ICOA annual gathering hosted and organized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Organic Trade Association.

Yesterday First Lady Michelle Obama, accompanied by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, released the final federal nutrition standards for school meals, representing the first major overhaul of school food requirements in over 15 years.

DTN Political Correspondent Jerry Hagstrom reported yesterday (link requires subscription) that, «Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Blanche Lincoln on Wednesday unveiled a bill to reauthorize the child nutrition programs that would increase funding for school lunch and other programs by $ 4.5 billion over 10 years, with some of the money coming from the budget for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program.

But that study helped stimulate a similar three - year pilot program in 15 schools statewide by the Illinois Nutrition Education and Training program, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

To graduate high school, Wisconsin students have to take a health class worth half a credit that may or may not include nutrition; if it does, a bill recently signed into law by Gov. Scott Walker says nutrition instruction has to be based on guidelines that are updated every five years by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The Food Guide Pyramid for young children was designed by the US Dept. of Agriculture to promote healthy nutrition in children over two years of age.

I'm confused by the reference to the «Food and Drug Administration» in the second entry (it's the Department of Agriculture that oversees child nutrition), but the intent of these lawmakers is clear: destroy all of the tremendous progress we've made over the last six years in improving our children's school food environment, and apparently also the food served in federally funded daycare centers.