The ruling makes it even more difficult for Britain's hill farmers and shepherds - who are already under huge pressure from supermarket demands and competition from 'megafarms' - to make a living. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The EU has also come under criticism by lobby groups who say corporate megafarms are getting too much support. ❋ John W. Miller (2011)
The USDA has funded the growth of corn and soy megafarms in the Midwest, and earnings from outside jobs supplement the incomes of many small or midsized farmers. ❋ The Media Consortium (2010)
Instead it fuels the expansion of industrial megafarms and the depopulation of rural America. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Miami rice” was grown on megafarms in the United States (not actually in Miami!) and delivered to Haiti for much less than the price of the more labor-intensive, more nutritious (and according to the Haitians, tastier) local rice strains. ❋ Annie Leonard (2010)
The new work is in line with several studies documenting the ill effects of megafarms, which typically have thousands of animals packed into small areas, comments Peter Thorne, director of the Environmental Health Sciences Research Center at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Less regulation of megafarms and more paperwork from small clean producers destroys the small producers and threatens our food supply. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So maybe they could enlist those folks into helping take over abandoned corporate megafarms. ❋ Unknown (2009)
So funding upscale art, or NPR, or agriculture subsidies to megafarms or Con-Agra, and so on, are perfect targets. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The goal also is to help governments boost agricultural productivity apart from the megafarms of Brazil and other producers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Grain-exporters in Brazil, Argentina and elsewhere have profited from the rise in prices, but outside the megafarms of Brazil and other producers, much of the agricultural production is hampered by small plots, stunted irrigation, poor roads and other infrastructure needs. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Another goal is to help governments boost agricultural productivity, apart from the megafarms of Brazil and other producers. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One example: North Carolina's inaptly named Murphy Family Farms has an unheard-of 330,000 sows at several megafarms spread across the country. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Other homegrown Iowans who remember the sloped concrete systems but resist the trend toward megafarms, though, disagree. ❋ Unknown (2007)
But megafarms are lethal to the family farm, they take the bottom out of market prices making it impossible for family farms to make any profit. ❋ Cass Dems (2005)
