Helping with seed, advice, fertiliser, and offering the small farmer the ability to band together to counterweight the market power of the large buyers.
For all three the arrangement is like the one that governs chicken production in the U.S., with a giant corporation supplying inputs to a small farmer and then picking up the output at harvest time.
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Lazarus (Samuel L. Jackson), a small-time farmer and erstwhile bluesman, lives alone with the burning anger that has consumed him since his wife left him for his brother.
Ethanol was making investors giddy last year when oil prices were high, corn prices were low and ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland and small U.S. farmer cooperatives were reaping huge profits distilling corn mash into fuel.
You're the nurse on the second shift, the worker on the line, the waitress on her feet, the small business owner, the farmer, the teacher, the miner, the trucker, the soldier, the veteran, the student, the hard-working men and women who don't always make the headlines, but have always written America's story.
This article was written by Rose Corona a small business entrepreneur, rancher, farmer and philanthropist.
In return, under a voluntary contract, the farmer would receive a small annual payment or wage.
After all, Small notes, Grassley is a farmer and Baucus is a rancher.
That case upheld the regulation of an Ohio farmer who grew a small amount of wheat exclusively for the domestic consumption of his animals.
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Although a regulation limited the size of the farms covered, the logic of the opinion would apply to force any farmer, no matter how small, into buying wheat in the open market.
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Eventually Mr. Freeman began hauling small batches of his roasted beans to a local farmer's market.
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He smiles as we encounter what he terms 'a Balinese tractor': another farmer, this time attempting to guide two small chestnut-brown cows and a plough through freshly harvested land, knee-deep in mud and water.
Farmer only has one full-time employee in his small, shared office in Kansas City, Kan.
The fact, for example, that some 70 percent of all farmers in the world are poor, working small holdings (a few acres per farm) additionally invites consideration of all those farmer dwellings.
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