Collocations withfarmer
These are words often used in combination withfarmer.
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cane farmer
He was a sugar cane farmer and social worker.
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cattle farmer
What matters to an average farmer, an average cattle farmer, is the energy content of the feed, the protein content and the company's reputation.
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chicken farmer
He unsuccessfully tried to be a chicken farmer.
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cocoa farmers
Also, a large number of the artisans, mechanics and teachers she interviewed were children of cocoa farmers.
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coffee farmers
The results show weak evidence of cocoa and coffee farmers responding in the short run3 to price increases.
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conventional farmer
This corroborates what we learned from members of the conventional farmer focus group.
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cotton farmer
The cotton farmer is generally a smallholder and family head.
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crop farmers
This suggests that organic crop farmers in our sample have a greater interest in departing from the conventional agribusiness-dominated input and marketing system.
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efficient farmer
It is the progressive and efficient farmer, who is spending money, who will bear the burden of the rates, and that is particularly unfair.
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elderly farmer
How does today's elderly farmer, perhaps like myself, get out with dignity and without losing everything?
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farmer income
In contrast, the negative influence of water management reform on production does not appear in the descriptive statistics when examining farmer income (table 6).
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fellow farmers
They said that they actively promote locally grown organic agriculture-not just on their own behalf, but on behalf of their fellow farmers as well.
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fish farmer
Fourthly, has the fish farmer taken the fullest precautions so as not to interrupt the movement upstream or downstream of migrating fish?
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full-time farmer
The idea was to transform the poor, ' backward ', ' inefficient ' farmer from the ' reserves ' to a full-time farmer who followed all the recommendations stipulated by the planners and extensionists.
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gentleman farmer
Williams was a self-made gentleman farmer, and a prominent lawyer and politician.
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grain farmer
I have yet to meet a grain farmer who believes that the levy system is working well to protect the home market.
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independent farmer
It goes against the grain of the independent farmer to co-operate.
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landless farmers
Critical to food production at affordable prices are the millions of small farmers and landless farmers now at the mercy of the landlord class.
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large-scale farmer
Not only will the large-scale farmer be hit by this tax, but also the smallholder.
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livestock farmer
I am thankful to say that the small livestock farmer is in a much happier position than he has been for several years.
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local farmer
The local farmer identified each of the lots, and provided assistance to participants that could not recall the harvest of subsistence crops.
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milk farmer
The milk farmer can ignore all considerations of hygiene.
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nearby farmer
Some little time ago the education committee of my county council bought several acres of land from a nearby farmer for the purpose of establishing a playing field.
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neighbouring farmer
The estate provided wood for repairs, and a boundary fence was put up jointly with a neighbouring farmer.
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organic farmer
The second reason is that we are interested in determining values of organic farmers generally, rather than the legality of particular organic farmer practices.
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participating farmer
Each individual participating farmer was then accompanied back through the trials by a project researcher or technician and asked to indicate his or her selections.
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poor farmer
The low-technology scenario mimics the situation of a poor farmer who never adopts modern technologies.
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potato farmer
Land/feed coupling is more complex since the potato farmer needs to adequately manage forage in addition to potatoes.
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poultry farmer
Surely he has some concrete plans to deal with the problem of the small poultry farmer, such as the extension of co-operative schemes?
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prosperous farmer
Prices were fixed so that the marginal farmer could live, and the very efficient and prosperous farmer made enormous profits.
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retired farmer
There is the very familiar case of a retired farmer, who has left his farm to his eldest son.
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rice farmer
The typical rice farmer was young, with more than half of the farmers being under 36 years old.
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salmon farmers
I shall give an illustration of the effect of that on the salmon farmers.
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sheep farmer
The sheep farmer is keeping up his stock because of the price of wool and mutton, and the finished sheep in the market.
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small farmer
The first chapter provides an excellent summary of the links between climate uncertainty and the small farmer.
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small-scale farmers
Therefore, intercropping maize and common bean is more advantageous than sole cropping, and should be recommended especially for small-scale farmers.
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smallholder farmer
No rhizobium inoculant or fertilizer was used on the legumes, reflecting recent smallholder farmer practice.
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tobacco farmer
Before taking possession of the farms allocated to them, successful applicants will be required to undergo a two-year training period with an experienced tobacco farmer.
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wealthy farmer
Combining this with very poor transportation, one can easily see that, even for a wealthy farmer, given the lack of even primary education, this was not feasible.
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well-to-do farmer
Subject also to reasonable and proper restrictions and compulsions if necessary in the matter of cultivation, the well-to-do farmer is an asset to the country as a whole.
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wheat farmer
In this case the wheat farmer says he is already on his beam ends, and he cannot afford to wait.
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would-be farmer
No longer will a would-be farmer have to pay a full "development value" for any new farm he buys.
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yeoman farmer
The power of the teetotaler's cautionary confession is thus made abundantly evident: a yeoman farmer becomes a new-style meritocratic landed gentleman.
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