How To Use Farmer In A Sentence

National Provisions Company, and went out preaching fiat money and a subtreasury for the farmers 'crops, trusting to God and the flower garden about his little white house, to keep the family alive -- it is odd that Jeanette's childish impression was that General Ward was a man of consequence in the world. A Certain Rich Man
Most organic farmers try to supply their nitrogen needs with legumes in the crop rotation or with manures and composts.
A guard with a motorcycle and a shotgun could move through fields at night and work with farmers to scare elephants and hippos.
He started his career as a humble peanut farmer.
‘I only wish farmers could be fully compensated for the incompetence, inefficiency and neglect of the Department over which Mrs Beckett presides,’ he said.

Deputy Agricultural and Land Affairs Minister Dirk du Toit called on farmers to invest in what he described as human resource capital.
The farmer, the papers had said, was a part-time policeman, a member of the Protestant Ulster Defence Regiment, the UDR. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
According to him, ‘In Europe the farmers throw dirt around the asparagus in order to blanch it.’
People miss out on one key thing about when Bill left music to be a jobbing farmer.
To comply with the new regs, U.S. farmers and food processors would have to completely change the way they grow, store, produce, and transport their goods.
Unfortunately, these birds fed in large flocks on fruit and other crops, and were shot in huge numbers by farmers.
I also visited a cooperative of peasant farmers who grow sesame seed.
The company would offer a discount to farmers who buy tillers under this scheme.
The farmers weren't too appreciative of our efforts, but we got the job done. The Sun
Up until the 1920s, in the mountain ranges of Westmoreland and south into Fayette, many small farmers subsisted on bear meat, preferable to venison, and considered by many to be juicier and better than beef.
The industry is highly vertically integrated, with poultry production companies (known as integrators) contracting with farmers (referred to as growers) to raise the birds prior to slaughter Number of broilers and other meat-type chickens sold in the United States, 2007 (Source: USDA Census of Agriculture, 2007). PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
If you want to camp in this field you must ask the farmer's permission.
Many coffee farmers sell their beans to domestic traders for between 27 to 31 cents a pound, Robinson says.
ABC of agrobiology; the quantitative science of plant life and plant nutrition for gardeners, farmers and general readers.
Tractors and harvesters were replacing mules and manual labor, and mechanization was in the process of making black tenant farmers and sharecroppers expendable.
Maybe the bisection would leave a piece of his land isolated and far from any overpass, and how, the farmer wanted to know, was he supposed to get across that highway with a tractor? Interstate 69
All local farmers protested against building the new airport on their farm land.
Of course the 'nester' or 'punkin roller,' as we contemptuously called the small farmer, began sifting in here and there in spite of our guns, but he was only a mosquito bite in comparison with the trouble which our cow-punchers stirred up. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West
The idea of being a farmer had lost its charm for me by this time.
We are ready to work with landowners and farmers to look after farmland wildlife. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Mugabe can not fail to understand the consequence of redistribution of the country's most productive land to subsistence farmers.
Farmers occasionally plow up old Indian relics.
The little village was almost medieval - ox carts pulled the harvest in and the farmers all wore wooden clogs. Times, Sunday Times
How to go local• Support local farmers by shopping at a farmers market, or buy a share in a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) group, a community of individuals who pledge to support a farm operation so growers and consumers share the risks and benefits of food production. With summer here, consider eating more locally grown foods
Tonight I must sneak like the thief that I am down into the farmer's hencoop and steal one of his chickens.
So a coster is twice as likely to lose his reason as a soldier, and five times as likely as a farmer. SUICIDE
Family forest landowners (often known as tree farmers) take pride in managing their lands.
* The Minister of Agriculture to review the use of surplus funds carried from levies on the 1994 crop, and to make levies available to stabilize the price of maize for human consumption in the coming season, rather than paying levies to commercial farmers as an "agterskot" as has been suggested in a press statement by ANC Daily News Briefing
He was fixing his car when the shell landed in front of the simple home where he and his family lived as fruit farmers. Times, Sunday Times
From an efficiency viewpoint, citrus farmers are producing too much citrus output at the competitive equilibrium. Microeconomics: Price Theory in Practice
Most lowland farmers keep some dairy cattle and rear calves as well as wintering and fattening sheep and lambs.
He called on the Government to apply the maximum pressure on the commission to come to an early agreement so that those low-income farmers can be paid.
He was no longer a farmer, just an ordinary man who owned the clothes he was wearing and nothing more.
Weipe agricultural union chairman Frans Nel said drought was wiping out the financial resources of farmers who lost millions of rand in winter production because of black frost and a plague of mice. ANC Daily News Briefing
The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
It was into this lawless milieu that Devi was born, the second daughter of a low-caste illiterate farmer.
The developments of combinatorial chemistry and the identification of new target sites from genomics research are likely to enhance the quality of agrochemicals at the farmer's disposal.
Mr Kehoe concluded by saying that every farmer should enquire regarding the payment terms and insist on payment on the day.
Let me tell you a rip snorter about a farmer and his cow.
He can then inform the farmers of the potential risk from the disease if they plant peas in that area.
A farmer is working in his seed bed.
One overriding principle governs farmers' markets everywhere: the producer sells direct to the consumer.
ARS scientists, working with NRCS and universities, have done the research that has encouraged farmers to largely put away the moldboard plow and switch to conservation tillage on about 40 percent of U.S. planted acres.
But he says it is purely coincidental that he ended up as a farmer of coffee.
We like to see cocoa bean farmers smiling out at us from packaging. Times, Sunday Times
Farmers had been a depressed class, paying uneconomic rents to impecunious landowners. IN LOVE AND WAR
Over the next hundred years the Wind River Valley attracted only a few hardy farmers, ranchers, and roughnecks.
Farmers lack any incentive to manage their land organically.
A pig-farmer in Lethbridge has invented a pill, derived from pigfeed, that is fantastically effective in fighting clinical depression without nasty side-effects. Boing Boing: December 16, 2001 - December 22, 2001 Archives
At this time, the house was modified to accommodate a resident farmer and his family.
From 1966 until 2002 the farm was tenanted by farmers called Cole.
The Teagasc analysis also shows that around 10% of beef farmers will completely destock and allow their land lie fallow.
He encouraged farmers to try new crops, like peanuts, cowpeas and sweet potatoes, and to try new rotations, better cultural practices and more appropriate machinery.
The five tenant farmers on the estate will continue working the land but ways are being sought to help those in arable farming to convert to grazing to help maintain the appearance of the land as it once was.
He observes the annual round of sowers and barley harvesters, goes stubblewalking, and contemplates how the modern combine has forever changed life for rural farmers.
The move by the farmers may sour relations with the government, which has in the past accused white farmers of mistreating their black workers.
Salmon farmers are warning of the severe crisis facing the industry.
He said the worries of the farmers facing the shortage of green fodder for their cattle may soon be over.
As someone who farms arable crops near Swindon, I am only too aware that farmers are struggling.
Rising waters would uproot prosperous farmers from the fertile riverbanks, forcing an estimated 100,000 people to move to higher ground where they could no longer plant corn and wheat.
Farmers occasionally plough up old Indian relics.
That meant withholding some of the farmers' irrigation water and sending it downriver - at least until the drought broke.
MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless; Rob Roy
Militants wielding clubs and sticks chased the farmer into his house, demanding he leave the property.
I purchased my bee balm from flea and farmer's markets.
But now Essig is giving us another reason: buying food from local farmers and producers (presumably at a farmer's market) is a way to socialize and make connections.
The farmer took his grain to the mill.
The new tenants are being put into occupation on probation; they are allotees of land and will not be able to claim possessive rights until the Land Commission is satisfied that they are capable farmers, and have proved their capacity to make productive use of th eland and furnish the regular payments that will amortise the purchase costs. G.K.'s Weekly - Land Policy of Ireland
We will ensure that farmers have a strong safety net and can achieve profitability in the marketplace.
a "nester," or "truck farmer," who was likely to fence in the river somewhere and homestead some land. The Eagle's Heart
The main objective is to stop the farmers' dependence on external agencies and make them contribute towards protection of natural resources.
The participants are middle-aged men in tweed hats that you might expect to see on a British gentleman farmer.
Dr Anderson said the meetings had given him an invaluable insight into the problems farmers had faced.
All farmers, landowners and parish councils in the National Park can apply for grants from the money which has come through Yorkshire and Humber Regional Development Agency.
Finlay Martin is a retired farmer in Ardlethan, a very small town north-west of Wagga in New South Wales.
Over six years ago, the Association put forward proposals, which would rank farmers as preferential creditors for agricultural produce supplied by them.
Scores of terror-stricken farmers had abandoned their properties following attacks on several of their colleagues and the death of two.
The tradition of the picturesque dates back to paintings and depictions from centuries earlier, which portrayed peasants and farmers as happy, apple-cheeked characters working in harmony with the land.
Did you applaud the hauliers and farmers and gleefully hope that their muscle would bring down the cost of fuel?
Farmers, advocates and ordinary shoppers all share the view that organics' move to the mainstream carries both benefits and risks.
Would the south-east and midland farmers be so anxious to quit the beet industry then?
This idea of the tithe comes from scripture; the Bible lays down that farmers in the land of Israel should set aside tithes of cattle, sheep, and produce, for priests and Levites (who were a public charge) and for the poor.
The two bands became docile subsistence farmers on submarginal agricultural land.
Lots of farmers markets, bazaars that were open on the street.
The pool dates back to the 19th century and was used by farmers to clean the fleeces of sheep before they went off to market.
By corralling, farmers could take advantage of more of the nitrogen in animal manure.
A farmer looking through the fields before harvesting his crop sees rabbits, opossums, mice, rats, birds, foxes, skunks and snakes.
The subsidy junkie label was not unreasonably applied to many farmers.
European farmers are planning a massive demonstration against farm subsidy cuts.
The recently ennobled Lord Farmer has vivid memories of childhood. Times, Sunday Times
Among the most fascinating items in the collection is an ethnological study of the life of the Welsh hill farmer.
Growers depend on farmer's market sales, and buyers still need to be educated that the better looking apricot isn't necessarily the best tasting.
The farmers pole hay into a barn.
Anyone involved in a rural business or community could apply-it's not just for farmers.
This is a bonus for farmers who had feared the rain would produce poor quality grain. Times, Sunday Times
The barn of the used-to-be-poor farmer is now heaped with grain.
Farmers are profiting from the new legislation.
Or investing in the agricultural sector so farmers are more able to meet demand for crops like Artemesia annua and pyrethrum, easily-grown botanical ingredients in anti-malarial drugs? Global Voices in English » Global Health: Twitter Face-Off To Fight Malaria
The farmer said we were trespassing.
Although tests on chiselled stones showed that the caves have existed for at least 1,500 years, it was only about 15 months ago that they were first discovered by a local farmer, by accident.
The problem is that traditional slash-and-burn agriculture is still the only option most farmers know.
The only way to make them economically viable is to intensively rear British farmers in huge barns where thousands of them can be kept in semi-darkness and fed mashed up, infected sheep pellets.
There was a mass migration of poverty-struck farmers into the cities.
Farmers and crofters can apply for annual payments for up to ten years for adopting environmentally friendly farming practices.
For large numbers of farmers in Aunli, even the present costs are not bearable.
Well it is, but on the upside, you see a lot of these farmers driving around in gold Cadillacs and hanging around chicks with big boobies.
He started his career as a humble peanut farmer.
Organic farmers thought it meant planting fruit trees through their arable crops. Times, Sunday Times
Many years after we find him living in a remote district beyond the great Orange River, leading the life of a "trek-boor," -- that is, a nomade farmer, who has no fixed or permanent abode, but moves with his flocks from place to place, wherever good pastures and water may tempt him. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
Why are we being so generous to farmers in other countries but so harsh with our own?
Alone among the New Deal agricultural agencies, they provided subsistence and operating credit for farmers.
In 1898 he started a County Fair to spur the ambition of the Negro farmers of the county. Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization
All farmers in the area are asked to check drinking troughs for leakages as many householders in the scheme have little or no water.
Farmers can harvest avocados, bananas, breadfruits, mangoes, and oranges, as well as medicinal plants, rubber, and timber.
Roger Hopley, a sheep and arable farmer in Staffordshire, said: ‘This is the first fine day for a while, and the lads have a week's work to catch up on, so it's been quieter.’
This chapter also draws largely, especially upon geological and chemical science, and affords another illustration of what, I trust, Mr. Stephens's book will more and more impress upon our working farmers, that _skilful practice is applied science_. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843
Young Farmers classes are still an important part of local agricultural shows today.
Farmers are baffled about how to remedy natural animal behaviour and say the tax could make farming uneconomical.
As a minister and educator to the hill farmers of north Alabama, Pickens was unbeholden to Bourbon patronage, and he was soon to wield his own printing press.
If you want to camp in this field you must ask the farmer's permission.
Perhaps I am a farmer myself — an innocent colonus; and instead of being able to get to church with my family, have to see squadrons of French dragoons thundering upon my barley, and squares of English infantry forming and trampling all over my oats. Roundabout Papers
Funes says that "dollarization" and the adoption of the Central American Free Trade Agreement in 2006 have had negative effects such as inflation and unfavorable competition for small-scale farmers but that it is too late to scrap these policies. CounterPunch
At the other end of the spectrum are the leafcutter ants, the benign farmers of the insect world. Times, Sunday Times
Those, then, are some reasons why good farmers are conservationists, and why all farmers ought to be.
By contrast, there are only about a thousand commercial beekeepers in the U.S., people who make a living harvesting and selling honey and wax and renting bees to farmers to pollinate their crops.
Moving northwest, we find parts of North Dakota where the land is so dry that farmers have had to leave land unplanted for a year or more to store up enough water to grow the next crop.
Farmers still have the problem of overcoming the stigma which all too often young people attach to working on the land.
In rural areas, thousands of farmers had installed capacitors on electric water pumps to run these on two-phase supply meant for household use.
The farmer cut at the snake with a stick.
Every farmer knows how to yoke the oxen together.
Many farmers will then chase you off their land quite aggressively.
Rice remained the main crop, but many farmers diversified.
Branches of the banks are told to get defaulting farmers to use the wavier to repay the loan. Leading bank stops Issuing loans for Farm equipments
The farmer herded the cows into his cowshed.
Some wheat farmers may be warming to the prospect of a new tool to help them grow more robust and profitable wheat, engineered to withstand herbicides.
This bill does go some way towards assisting the affected farmers.
He is also empassioned about the case for greater justice in trade - despite the recession, arguing that while times may be tough in the UK, these farmers are living in absolute poverty which it is our moral imperative to address. Fairtrade gets huge boost from The Co-operative's new ethical plan
In the mid-19th century the Norwegian government, eager to colonise with people a terrain it owned in name only, offered free land here to impoverished farmers from the south.
At the church gates is the historical _jougs_, a place of penance for the neck of detected sinners, and the historical _louping-on stane_, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers climbed into the saddle. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
Since local farmers preferred keeping all unplowed land in grass, absentee landowners votes were needed to allow Kriss to expand his operations.
The farmer-general gave our three artists a hearty invitation to visit him, promising them all the horses they could ride, all the wine they could drink, and all the maccaroni they could eat. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy
Many farmers were conscripted into service, while others went into hiding, so food became scarce. Christianity Today
Farmers usually keep farm animals to supplement their income, but a visitor to this farm will not hear clucks or moos.
The announcement will give farmers greater flexibility on moving stock, restocking and other day-to-day farming activities.
There were mangoes and cherries and quinces and apples and apricots and almonds, and beyond the orchards there were thickets of tamarisk and casuarina as well as groves of mulberry trees belonging to the silk farmers.
Other northern employers were shocked that ex-slaves refused to work in conditions that would not daunt a farmer in the North. A Renegade History of the United States
‘It is the farmer who earns his living from the land and as such it should be recognised as a tradeable asset,’ insisted Mr Alderman.
And this really is a pity, and this is a shame, because what does that mean for United Nations to expulse people who are fighting day after day at the local level to change what's happening, to try to defend the poor people, to defend the farmers, the indigenous people and so on? Democracy Now!
In 1947 the last wheat crop was sown and five years later the last farmer left followed by the last resident in 1954.
The farmer called the vet out to treat a sick cow.
Apparently, Irish cows are not Irish either, but relations of the first domesticated wild oxen to be brought to this part of the world from the east by the first farmers.
It was the custom for practically, all Kaffrarian stock-farmers to trek down to the coast with their stock for the three winter months. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer
Those products go into anything from skin cream to treatments sprayed by farmers on to their crops. Times, Sunday Times
The farmers, to the fury of conservationists, say that sea eagles have been targeting their lambs and destroying their already meagre income. Times, Sunday Times
Farmers in both the organic and non-organic sectors are making real progress in tackling the environmental issues we all face.
Dole, with farmers and agribusiness at the core of his Kansas constituency, has strongly supported tax credits for ethanol.
Farmers are custodians of the land for the next generation.
He taught sharecroppers, worked with the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, and according to folksinger Lee Hays helped reshape the old gospel tune "I Shall Overcome" into a political anthem. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street
Others say his devotion to Korean farmers was so passionate that he would willingly have laid down his life for them.
Seen in that light,(Sentence dictionary) sanctioning a surge in the currency that could destroy export jobs and expose tens of millions of farmers to competition from cheaper imports would be a risky option.
In a sandy field of half-grown cassava plants, a group of 30 farmers were fighting a plague of locusts with long-handled weeding hoes and improvised brushes.
Baltimore's millers and merchants linked backcountry farmers to an Atlantic market that showed an insatiable appetite for American produce.
There once was a poor farmer who had four sons.
It's the first time farmers have decided to organize.
Beef and dairy farmers in Midwestern states that produce most of the nation's ethanol are able to feed their cattle with less expensive grains leftover from distilling that fuel. Archive 2007-06-24
Over at the sheep pens, Whittington farmer James Airey celebrated as his two-year-old Suffolk gimmer shearling took the title of supreme sheep champion.
Though a settler-farmer not dependent entirely on farm income for a living, even I am not able to escape this feeling of gloom and depression.
In fact, corn farmers probably have as big a stake in sugar quotas as do sugar growers!
You see, a Bulgarian farmer had bought a prizewinning boar for breeding purposes, but discovered it would only socialise with other male pigs.
As a result, cattle, sheep and cereal farmers are being forced to produce food below the cost of production and, in return, accept direct compensatory payments to make up the production costs and provide an income.
Here are old buses with wooden bench seats, and farmers riding donkeys.
Any attempts to persuade farmers of the necessity of environmental conservation must take all these factors into account.
In many cases, management of the mills is almost dynastic, with families of rich farmers governing the mill as if it belongs to them and not to the shareholders.
In the evening and at night, when the farmers came out to plough, or to sow or reap their wheat, the country hummed with activity like a distant industrial town.
Bails of lucern, donated by farmers in the Maclear and Ugie areas, were due to be stockpiled for distribution later.
Within a fortnight of the President's exhortation to agricultural scientists, farmers dumped cartloads of tomato on the streets.
She was given a warm welcome by farmers at the championships and even tried her hand at ploughing with two Irish draught mares, owned by brothers Joe and Padraig Fahy, of Corrandulla, Co Galway.
This Ethiopian farmer is facing famine again and, to keep his eight children alive, has been reduced to collecting wood and grass from the bush to sell at market for two birr a bundle.
This is the time when hard-pressed gardeners and farmers are watching the sky for signs of rain as soils grow drier. Times, Sunday Times
A comparative study on the effects of crop insurance and direct grain-growing subsidy on farmers' welfare was made through a questionnaire.
There are magnificent avenues of elm-trees, great gardens encircled by the moat, and a circumference of walls about a huge manorial pile which represents the profits of the maltote, the gains of farmers-general, legalized malversation, or the vast fortunes of great houses now brought low beneath the hammer of the Civil Code. A Woman of Thirty
She said the black-faced sheep of the moors will need shearing later this month and farmers face a logistical nightmare of how to shear and dip their livestock if they cannot move them off the moors.
What does a farmer with burnt fingers do? Times, Sunday Times
A farmer shows off his different-colored pomelos growing from out of the same tree.
The Zionists tried to de-bourgeoisify Jews by creating a national economy in which Jews would hold all the jobs, including farmer and soldier, rather than just the bourgeois middle-man-minority jobs at which they made much money, but also elicited dangerous resentment from other peoples. VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » David Brooks: The Tel Aviv Cluster
The animals were thin and ill because the farmer had neglected them.
In recent years, farmers have tried to adapt their product to a supposed demand for leaner beef.
Farmer based technology such as agroforestry techniques, fodder banks, development of vegetative erosion control barriers, utilization of crop wastes, increased planting of leguminous trees and pasture crops are techniques that are readily adaptable. 1. Intensive sustainable livestock production: an alternative to tropical deforestation.
Whereas historically the Kyrgyz were nomadic herders, Uzbeks were settled farmers.
I'm here to tell you our job is not finished and and we are not going anywhere until it is," Obama said after meeting with government and business leaders in Panama City, Florida. pc tha great album release party @ buck wilds farmerly know as stetsuns my up coming album release party at buck wilds aka stetsuns WN.com - Photown News
A few weeks ago the 47-year old olive farmer suffered a heart attack during a scuffle with the soldiers guarding the wall.
A quarter of the grain sold was not sold through middlemen but directly by the farmer to the customer, and it was the smaller farmer who sold least through the merchants.
Meanwhile the big publishers and the big retailers probably won't disappear, any more than the local supermarket will close if a few sensible people go to the farmers' market.
How delicious smelling, were the baskets of fresh garlic when the farmer brought them up from the valley.
Farmers hoped to send their animals to early slaughter to avoid financial losses.

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