Trees are in the ground for years, rather than farm crops' months.
The owner of a small Florida farm might sell crops to a large nearby distributor, for example, who might then distribute them to grocers across the country.
It is a mixed farm, with arable crops and a 40-strong herd of beef cattle.
The country has moved towards the market and farmers are choosing to farm better-paying crops.
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Now the EU is trying to shift biofuel production from food crops to farm waste, algae and straw.
In early 19th- century Pennsylvania, this goo was considered a depressor of property values because oil made it hard to grow crops and made farm animals sick.
More recently, new celery varieties and potato varieties have been introduced that were found to have natural toxicants that are harmful to some people, including farm workers who handle the crops on a daily basis.
Whether those copies are crops on a farm in the Midwest or hot DVDs on the sidewalks of New York City, the principle is the same, and so are the consequences: When one free rider skims off the top, everyone else ends up paying more, and innovators get less to invest in the next round of innovation.
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That drought shriveled crops across the American farm belt, leading to an expected rise in food prices in 2013, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department.
Although the debate ends in July, the results of the farm-scale trials of four crops proposed for Britain, carried out over the last four years, are not due to be known until September.
And there are legitimate grievances, such as the north's rampant farm-sector protectionism that keeps competitive crops from poorer nations out.
What we need now is action to prevent the current farm-scale trials and test sites contaminating crops and honey.
Perhaps he should indeed consider his retirement, let his mare grow fat, and live from what crops he could grow and what farm stock he could raise.
At the same time many American farmers are learning to live with a free(ish) market: the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act gave farmers more leeway about switching crops, but also capped government subsidies.
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Although many crops had already been harvested before the farm occupations began, farmers must still sell their produce.
Harsh immigration laws that discourage migrant farm workers have led to millions of dollars of crops rotting on the vine.
Manor Farm has traditionally been used for grazing and growing crops.
In doing so, they've revitalized a moribund farm system, amassing one of baseball's best crops of prospects.
At midday, farm sheds burst into flames in a clearing amid rows of crops.
"Major supermarkets, in meeting consumer expectations, will often reject entire crops of perfectly edible fruit and vegetables at the farm because they do not meet exacting marketing standards for their physical characteristics, such as size and appearance, " the study said.
The island is a farm, so there are cattle to tend, timber to cut and organic crops to grow.
Mr. ARTURO RODRIGUEZ (President, United Farm Workers National): While drove out throughout the valley on our trip up here, we didn't see any farm workers working in the berries, in the vegetables, in any of the crops.
Eventually they hope to see crops worldwide grown on land which was previously thought difficult or even impossible to farm.
Several websites can help plan a farmcation, where guests have the chance to be a farm hand for the day, feeding chickens, learning how to milk cows and picking crops out in the field.
In response to the situation, Democrats want to gut the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act, which phases out subsidies in return for giving growers the flexibility to switch crops in response to changing markets.
When Hveravellir Farm constructed its first greenhouses around 20 miles from Husavik in 1933, farmers were able to grow crops that required even warmer temperatures, like tomatoes and cucumbers, bringing locally grown produce to the region for the first time.
Most crops in the region are sown and harvested by hand, including the small plots that dot the gravity-challenging mountain sides, and farm machinery is a rare sight, with villagers using donkeys, oxen and bulls to plough the crops.
The BCAP (Biomass Crop Assistance Program), part of the 2008 farm bill, is designed to encourage farmers to plant biomass by cost-sharing the establishment of the crops.
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Roads and bridges will be built (not least to help the new crops to market), electricity installed, schools and other infrastructure put in place, to help farm families break the coca habit.
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