Sentence examples for marginal farms from inspiring English sources

Although almost half of Iowa's pork producers went out of business between 1992 and 1997, the surviving family farmers cling to their debt-ridden, often economically marginal farms the way grand old English families hang on to their country houses, even when the roof leaks and the servants are long gone.

But many others were undone by the numerous Gordian knots that hold back Indian agriculture: laws limit who can buy farmers' crops, 35 percent of fruits and vegetables are wasted because of inefficient transportation and farmers earn too little to invest in their marginal farms.

Small and marginal farms labeled as '1' are clustered together signifying their similarity in terms of a host of factors.

The evolution of integrated systems offers rural people the opportunity to diversify their incomes and contributes to the survival of marginal farms.

The rapid increase in population and slow shift of labour from agriculture to non-agriculture is evident in the dominance of marginal farms.

Depending on the details of programme design, decoupled payments may increase overall net returns to agriculture and/or shift the distribution of net returns in favour of smaller, more marginal farms.

But the American taxpayer, Mr. Kerr contends, should not have to subsidize marginal farming forever.

Finance ministry economists say higher prices would reduce demand by eliminating some marginal farming operations and encouraging the recycling of waste water.

The English uplands face two significant challenges, both of which are common to marginal farming areas across the EU, as Nori and Gemini (2011) outline in relation to the more recent reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy CAPP).

With steep slopes, poor soils and a short growing season compared to lowland England, these are marginal farming areas, traditionally managed for the extensive, grass-based production of sheep, beef and some dairy farming, and their designation as European Union (EU) Less Favoured Areas (LFA) reflects this.

In Exmoor, the relationship between longstanding marginal farming practice and the environmental qualities of these landscapes is well acknowledged – as reflected in the Exmoor National Park Management Plan (2007) : 'The historical character of Exmoor is as a managed landscape, in other words there has been a relationship between man and the environment over many thousands of years.