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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, farmers have difficulty finding secondary markets for their outgrades and have no choice but to leave fresh produce unharvested to rot in the field. Gleaning Network U.K. coordinates teams of volunteers with willing farmers across the U.K. to direct this fresh surplus produce to charities that redistribute it to people that need it most.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many young and beginning farmers start out in local markets. Some stay there, and some scale up.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think about sustainability all the time, whether it's with fish or farmers in Eastern Oregon.
- Process
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- Nov 07, 2020
Chapter 11 is an expensive process that does not accommodate the special needs of farmers.
- Permanent
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
Empowering small farmers to increase productivity, improve crop quality and access reliable markets is critical to addressing global hunger and poverty.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get the most from agricultural resources, poor farmers' needs must come first, guiding investment strategies and forming the yardstick for gauging results.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
You talk to the farmers, the ranchers, our small community bankers, and boy, one of the No. 1 issues is the regulations coming out of Washington.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Arizona, where farm dust is currently regulated, farmers are forced to park tractors on windy days to prevent getting strapped with outrageous fines.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA has the ability to more stringently regulate dust. If the EPA determines more stringent standards are necessary, family farmers and ranchers, as well as rural economies, would be devastated.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I come from a family of farmers.
- Major
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- Nov 07, 2020
Marketing is a major headache for farmers.
- Nov 07, 2020
If prices drop, we have to protect farmers from distress; if prices rise, we should be ready to pay market rates.
- Nov 07, 2020
Parity is for farmers.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought it to my attention that there were no regulations on organic labeling. In essence, anybody could just grow a thing any way they wanted and put 'organic' on it.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers were always generalists. They had to know science and commerce and all sorts of practical things.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Lincolnshire, trying to get the daughters of farmers and policemen to like me. It didn't go well until I got to college where, suddenly, there were different sorts of humans.
- Crop
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- Nov 07, 2020
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many labourers can trace their descent from farmers or well-to-do people, and it is not uncommon to find here and there a man who believes that he is entitled to a large property in Chancery, or elsewhere, as the heir.
- Factors
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- Nov 07, 2020
The factors that have been holding farmers back are similar to those that threaten other types of growth in Africa. Infrastructure and transport are in many cases quite poor, resulting in the losses of huge amounts of produce.
- Delight
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- Nov 07, 2020
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.
- Hard Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our country is indebted to our farmers who are our annadata, because of whose hard work we are self-reliant in foodgrain.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I help a farmer, I don't differentiate between them based on their region, as farmers have no borders. I want to live like a world citizen and react like a human being.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our farmers have become family.
- Best Interests
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was in the best interests of Zavala and other counties that we move forward with a farm bill and provide certainty to ranchers, farmers, food banks, and other providers.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need more food, more forests, better livelihoods for smallholder farmers, and lower emissions. If we want any of them, we must have all of them.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cajun is country food by farmers and fisherman that arrived in Louisiana from Acadiana, Canada.
- Nov 07, 2020
We have farmers in southwestern Yuma, so immigration - they wanted to talk to us about it.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Central African farmers don't have any animal power because sleeping sickness kills all the animals - cattle, the horses, the burros and the mules. So draft animals don't exist, and farming is all by hand, and the hand tools are hoes and machetes.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's fascinating that I receive attention for what people perceive to be a level of manliness or machismo, when amongst my family of farmers and paramedics and regular Americans, I'm kind of the sissy in my family.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.
- Poverty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The chief problem of low-income farmers is poverty.
- Fall
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- Nov 07, 2020
When coffee prices fall below production costs, farmers are often forced off their land, and they lose their homes, everything. With fair trade, farmers get a fair price for their harvest with a guaranteed minimum, so they can invest in their crops.
- Pen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers will not see good days unless their produce gets a guaranteed price. Even a notebook, a pen, or a soap has a price printed on it, but the milk that farmers sell do not have any price.
- Nov 07, 2020
Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.
- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Texas' and America's farmers are suffering. As the Member of Congress representing the 10th Congressional District of Texas, I have traveled throughout our area and have seen first-hand how the drought has affected our agricultural communities.
- Products
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's ranchers and farmers produce the highest-quality products in the world.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
While expanding market access for American industry, financial markets and farmers is critical, I believe it needs to be done responsibly, accounting for the treatment and protection of workers and the environment.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
We'd rather pay farmers millions of dollars not to grow crops than to feed children.
- Land
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers were 'unable to develop their landholdings due to many restrictions. We passed the land pooling policy so they can plan to build infrastructure - with the help of private builders too.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
All kinds of excuses have been given by governments for not implementing this recommendation like food price inflation. But the question is, do the farmers of this country, who constitute nearly half of the working population, also not need to eat?
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The government only gives subsidies for nitrogenous fertilisers. With the result, farmers do not apply balanced fertilisers.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
To sum up, agriculture has made important progress and our farmers have now shown that they are second to none in terms of improving production and productivity.
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
The National Policy for Farmers calls for a paradigm shift from measuring agricultural progress merely in terms of growth rates, to measuring it in terms of the growth in the real income of farm families.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers, young and old, educated and uneducated, have easily taken to the new agronomy. It has been heart-warming to see young college graduates, retired officials, ex-armymen, illiterate peasants and small farmers queuing up to get the new seeds.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers in rain-fed, dry areas such as Vidarbha and parts of Andhra Pradesh may own several hectares of land but their farm produce depends on the vagaries of the monsoon.
- Debt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ultimately, multiple livelihood opportunities alone can insulate farmers in rainfed areas from the debt trap.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Training of farmers in integrated pest management is exceedingly important to protect them during the use of pesticides.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Gen. Banks has issued an order for the instruction of Negro children. Schoolhouses are to be built or rented and Teachers hired for this purpose, and the farmers and planters are to pay the Taxes in support of this.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must move aggressively in Asia-Pacific because our competitors like China are moving very swiftly to tie down a regional trade agreement that leaves... our farmers and our workers and our businesses out.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a strong farm bill that gives assistance to farmers during times of drought, creates markets for local goods, protects our environment, and helps struggling families bridge the gap between hard times and a full dinner table.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
My biggest cooking influence, my No. 1, is my grandma. Then it's the farmers. When I go to the farm stand and see what's available, that's where I get most of my inspiration.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator McCaskill - she's been in D.C. forever. She's turned her back on farmers. She's ignored working families.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
On my mother's side, I come from Midlands engineers and, on my father's, from tenant farmers near Oxford.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.
- Even Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
Farmers, merchants, manufacturers, and the traveling public have all had their troubles with the transportation lines, and the difficulties to which these struggles have given rise have produced that problem which is even now apparently far from solution.
- Being Used
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to draw the line someplace with all the pesticides being used by the farmers.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The farmers are older; they are under financial stress to produce more margins, yet they keep getting less.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
To help U.S. workers, farmers and businesses, and America's long-term economic security, Congress should take decisive action to bring about fair trade with China, instead of squandering this opportunity on a weak Republican bill.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to make sure the Department of Agriculture is promoting farmers and ranchers.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never in my life would I have expected USDA to be opposed to farmers and ranchers.
- Deserve
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- Nov 07, 2020
American farmers and ranchers deserve a USDA that will pursue supportive policies rather than seek their further harm.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
There wasn't a bigger issue in my campaign than Obamacare. Everyone I talk to, every business, a lot of family farmers, are concerned about how this will affect them.
- Decline
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- Nov 07, 2020
While farmers' markets are booming in cities, actual rural market towns are in decline.
- Crops
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- Nov 07, 2020
The southward advance of native African farmers with Central African crops halted in Natal, beyond which Central African crops couldn't grow - with enormous consequences for the recent history of South Africa.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
American farmers, by making the commitment to grow more corn for ethanol, are at the top of the spear on the war against terrorism.
- Economic Independence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
- Cow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Consumers of meat, eggs and dairy products might well ask what they are supporting. Do farmers care about anyone but themselves? Can't anyone see the cow for the cheese?
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
In fact, because of their connection to the land, farmers do more to protect and preserve our environment than almost anyone else. They are some of the best environmentalists around.
- Depend
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Previous generations used to eat locally out of necessity. Without options like flash-freezing and worldwide export services, communities had to rely on local farms for all of their meals. In many ways, this was beneficial. People ate fresh, seasonal foods that were naturally flavorful and nutritious, and farmers and communities prospered.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020