Agriculture in Business

Posts Tagged ‘farms’

Here is a short slideshow of our Case tractors over the years, working in the field, mowing hay, bailing hay, and tractor pulling. If anyone has suggestions for any audio to add to it let me know. I didnt have any on my computer and couldnt think of anything so let me know.

Duration : 0:2:13

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: 1070, Amherst, Brad, Case, Cummins, diesel, dodge, farms, Ken, Lacko, Lagrange, ohio, Prostock, pull, Puller, pulling, Superfarm, Superstock, tractor, tractors, truck

A succes story in the village Ranidhera with the help of Jatropha Curcas. If you are a Jatropha producing Farmer or network marketeer and you like this video, please put a link on your website. In this way the Jatropha initiative will grow and we will be able to bring power to communities.Be linked to a wonderfull initiative!

Duration : 0:9:55

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: agri, biodiesel, biotechnology, business, change, climate, Credit, Curcas, duurzaamheid, eco, energy, environment, farming, farms, footprint, friendly, Fuel, Gino, global, goals, green, high, Jatropha, kyoto, microfinance, millennium, new, oil, philanthropy, plant, plantations, ppo, Protos, renewable, Smit, solution, Stove, sustainable, villages, warming, yield, Youmanitas, zero

Are small farms and gardens going to be against the law? Well if the liberals in congress have their way it will be. This ridiculous law is just one of many that congress is going to push on us to protect us. Well I for one am getting tied of losing my freedoms to the government in the name of protecting me. I can protect myself. I dont need the help of the federal government. All that I need is that they stay out of my way.

As is stated in this video, this law will only hurt small business. It will just create another layer of federal bureaucracy to further hinder small farms, and small organic farms. While, as is usual for most laws, it will not help us at all, or very little. If I have to die of salmonella to keep my freedoms, then I am willing to die, because like they say, freedom is not free.

So if I understand this law correctly, the government will now monitor what you are growing in your own garden, what food you buy at your local grocery store, and even the fruits and vegetables that you buy at your local farmers market, what a joke.

This is what is coming to America, total government control of your life, from what you eat, where you go, who you see, where your children go to school, what your children learn at school, etc. etc., I could go on and on. Just what part of total government control would someone not understand? Is this what Americans want? I dont think so, so we had better start acting up or this what we will get.
jbranstetter04

LeaveMyFoodAlone.org: A Petition to Defeat HR 875
Ive been noticing an increasing uproar in the blogosphere and the agricultural news community about H.R. 875, the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009. Introduced by Democratic Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Congresswoman with indirect family ties to agricultural giant Monsanto, the bill drastically revamps and overhauls the food safety mechanisms by which the Federal government attempts to guarantee the purity and safety of the food Americans consume.
Although my default position is to be somewhat skeptical of these mass semi-panics, in this case there seems to be some meat to the complaints. Many of the elements of the bill as it stands seem to put the Federal government in a position of tremendous power over even the smallest of agricultural producers literally, the gentleman next door growing a row of organic tomatoes and requiring them to do business pretty much the way that the giant agricultural companies do business. Now, the big ag companies take a lot of unfair hits sometimes, but we can all agree that not everybody wants to run their farm that way. Thats why there are thousands of organic farms, and plenty of old-fashioned smallholders who do things their own way. Everybody wants food safety but very few people want the weekend hunter, the hobby gardener, and the small organic operation treated like cogs in the food machine.
Whats more, and troubling to anyone with a memory of the history of government expansions of power, the bill puts all this authority in the hands, not of the FDA (which has handled food safety at the national level for more than a century) but in an ill-defined and shadowy food czar working out of the White House. You dont have to be a frothing partisan to be reluctant to put any President so directly in charge of the food supply of the country. Its my view that, while there may be ideas of value in this bill (although in my reading thus far I havent found any), the bill as it stands would be a terrible idea, one that does nothing to enhance food safety but instead makes it impossible for small producers to compete with the big companies, often imposing what amounts to de facto bans on organic produce or naturally-gathered food and game.
As of now, H.R. 875 is in committee, meaning that the members of the House Committees on Energy and Commerce, and the House Committee on Agriculture, are reviewing the bill and listening (theoretically) to citizen and lobbyist input. The word on the Hill is that companies like Monsanto are all for the bill although the bill would inconvenience Big Ag, large companies are much better able to absorb the burden of regulation than smaller companies, and thus are often advocates of having lots of regulation simply because they know they can shoulder the load and their smaller (annoying) competitors cannot. The good news is that most bills never make it out of committee, and with H.R. 875 having to pass through two committees before getting out onto the House floor, the odds are probably fairly good that the bill will never become law. (especially if we as ag professionals take action)…
http://blog.alextiller.com/BlogRetrieve.aspx?BlogID=2729&PostID=58102

Duration : 0:6:14

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: 875, act, ban, beck, bureaucracy, businesses, Buy, control, eat, farmers, farms, food, Gardens, glenn, Government, home, hr, Markets, modernization, monitor, organic, paperwork, protect, safety, sell, Small, US

One-day event overlooking Cardigan town and the River Teifi estuary. Lots on, animals, games, trade stands and machinery. Tractor dealers there in force. Vintage section, not large but very nice with tractors, farm machinery and cars, motor bikes etc.

Duration : 0:6:17

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: agriculture, animals, Cardigan, cattle, Ceredigion, chickens, farming, farms, goats, horses, sheep, Show, tractors

Farmers use banned endo sulphan pesticide

Duration : 0:6:35

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: AP latest news, Breaking news, Chili Pepper Farmer, Cotton crops, Cotton crops destroyed, crops, Dead, Deaths, Duplicate pesticides, Endosulfan, Exclusive, Fake pesticides, farmers, Farmers lands, farms, Live programmes, News update, Online free channels., Paddy crops, pesticides, Poor people, Rice paddy farmer, Streaming, Television, Telugu, Top stories, Tv 9 live, Tv9, Tv9 shows, Urea problems, Village in loss, Village people

Pesticide kills cotton crop

Duration : 0:1:15

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: AP latest news, Breaking news, Cotton crops, Cotton crops destroyed, crops, Crops in loss, Duplicate pesticides, Fake pesticides, farmers, Farmers lands, farms, News update, Online free channels., pesticides, Telugu, Top stories, Tv 9 live, Tv9, Tv9 exclusives, Tv9 shows, Tv9channel, Tv9news, Urea problems, Village in loss, Village people

It’s got a view to die for. Rooftop Farms atop a warehouse in Brooklyn grow more than 30 varieties of organic fruits and vegetables, including heirloom tomatoes, zucchini, aubergines and green onions. While green roofs are nothing new, the sheer scale of the farm in the heart of one of the world’s most congested cities is impressive. Lisa Goode is the owner of Rooftop Farms. [Lisa Goode, Owner, Rooftop Farms]: “There’s layers of drainage mat and separation fabric — it’s all very technical stuff that the dirt actually just goes right on top of. And then you grow stuff in the dirt. But most importantly, a green roof has great environmental benefits such as storm-water reduction, which is a huge problem in New York City.  There’s cooling for the building and if we can amass enough green roofs, hopefully it will help the heat island issue in New York City too.” The biggest problem with designing green roofs, Goode says, is convincing developers they are a good idea. She says there is a misguided perception that they can damage a building’s roof. The reverse is true, she says. Greenery can protect a roof membrane from the damaging effects of the sun and cold weather. Andy Darrell, Regional Manager of the Environmental Defense Fund, says another benefit of Rooftop Farms is that it lowers the carbon footprint caused by trucks used to transport food into the city. [Andy Darrell, Regional Manager, Environmental Defense Fund]: “About 70 percent of the air cancer risk in the air that we breathe comes from cars and trucks on our streets. So anything we can do to get trucks out of our communities and off of our crowded streets is a good thing.” Rooftop Farms is managed by a team of experienced farmers and volunteers. Neighbors often stop by and local restaurants get daily deliveries of fruits, vegetables and herbs. Ben Flanner, one of the farmers, is the delivery man. Marlow and Sons, a neighborhood eatery, particularly likes the farm’s heirloom tomatoes and mesclun greens. Sean Rembold is its Executive Chef. [Sean Rembold, Executive Chef]: “It is pretty amazing, when even though we can’t get the volume maybe from the rooftop farm, to know that we can get fresh excellent vegetables… I could call right now — call Ben — and he would bicycle over something within the hour. So it’s pretty amazing.” Rooftop Farms is a pilot project. It cost $60,000 to design and build. The project’s goal is to bring down costs and to build more farms like it across New York City.

Duration : 0:2:44

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: ben, city, environmental, farms, Good, goode, green, heirloom, mdash, news, ntd, ntdtv, roofs, rooftop, streets, trucks, Vegetables, york

Take a look at a day in the life of a farm manager. Follow Tony Buttle as he takes you through his day to day job and talks you through how you can get a similar job in agriculture.

Duration : 0:7:55

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: agriculture, Careers, crops, farmer, farming, farms, future, jobs, lantra, learning, skills, tony buttle, tractors, www.afuturein.com

Farm Photos – tractors, tractor accidents, you name it…. some photots that farmers have captured on their farms. Discuss on Agriville.com

Duration : 0:0:59

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: Accidents, AGCO, agriculture, agriville.com, Canada, Case, DEERE, farm, farm photos, farmers, farms, farms.com, ih, JOHN, ontario, seeders, skidders, tractor, trucks

Barry Nelson, Manager of Media Relations for John Deere’s Agricultural and Turf Division, encourages growers to attend the Farm Progress Show in late August to see new products from the company. Farms.com Videos

Duration : 0:0:51

Read the rest of this entry »

Technorati Tags: Ag Media Summit, agriculture, equipment, farming, farms, farms.com, john deere, new products, tractors