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In what Michael Scuse , acting under secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, calls the biggest small-farm expansion in memory, the number of farms under 70 acres grew 12% from 1978 to 2007, the latest data available.
Tractor, Laptop: Family Farm Tools Sue Shellenbarger 2011
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Members agreed to deliver all of their crops to the cooperative and were paid premiums for higher-quality and early deliveries, according to a paper by Shermain Hardesty , a Cooperative Extension specialist and director of small-farm programs at the University of California at Davis.
'Big' Was Diamond CEO's Style Hannah Karp 2012
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Linn Cohen-Cole, a small-farm advocate from Atlanta, calls the bill 'a fascist takeover of the entire food supply. '
Wonkbook: WH plans health reform push; Fed likely to delay; BP well dead 2010
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As a result, these small-farm families have been able to produce and sell surplus crops and increase their incomes by an average of600 per year -- enough to pay for school, healthcare, and invest in their farms.
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Irrigation, Smythe contended, was by its nature a communal enterprise, requiring the weaving of a fabric of community institutions that would perforce supplant the dismal individualism of the small-farm and urban economies.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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As a result, these small-farm families have been able to produce and sell surplus crops and increase their incomes by an average of600 per year -- enough to pay for school, healthcare, and invest in their farms.
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He cherished the woods and coast of Maine, the small-farm landscape of Vermont, and the people of the region whose lives are most closely tied to the landscape.
Henry Miller: America Loses a Groundbreaking Environmentalist 2010
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He cherished the woods and coast of Maine, the small-farm landscape of Vermont, and the people of the region whose lives are most closely tied to the landscape.
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Irrigation, Smythe contended, was by its nature a communal enterprise, requiring the weaving of a fabric of community institutions that would perforce supplant the dismal individualism of the small-farm and urban economies.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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As Barbara Kingsolver writes so charmingly in Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, turkey farming is a brutal business -- unless you can find an organic, preferably small-farm, source.
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