Sentence examples for commodity growers from inspiring English sources

"This isn't a farm policy, it's a check-writing machine for the big commodity growers," said Ferd Hoefner of the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, which represents small farmers and rural communities generally ineligible for most of the big programs.

These groups hope to get funding from companies like Monsanto and Cargill and will be seeking out commodity check-off program funding via commodity growers if possible.

This community encompassed all stages of the process of transforming tobacco into a commodity – growers, leaf dealers, manufacturers, and advertisers.

Fruit was the most commonly reported commodity among growers, followed by vegetables.

If, as Douglas Brown suggests, marijuana has become a commodity, then growers will have to make their product unique or special in order to stand out if they want to protect their investments.

He said the unfair contract law could also overturn the long held practice in which most large processors insist that dairy farmers supply them exclusively – unlike other commodities where growers are free to sell to any buyer.

The restrictions would be lifted because growers of commodity crops would lose their direct payments.

The main beneficiaries are large-scale arable growers and commodity companies.

That question has been asked by farmers throughout history, particularly in developing countries, where growers of commodity crops like coffee and cocoa often live in poverty.

They buy speciality quality coffee from the growers at commodity coffee prices, but then sell at speciality coffee prices to coffee shops around the world.

The 2008 Farm Bill debate was heavily influenced by a disparate coalition of groups, including taxpayer, hunger, nutrition and environmental advocates, that pushed to reform the current system of government payments that flows disproportionately to the largest growers of commodity crops such as corn and cotton.