Even after he lost in court, he still tried to farm the land that was no longer his, he said.
They are attracted to small and medium sized farms, and plan to live in the house, but not farm the land.
The quasi-governmental Rural Development Center suggests extending land-use contracts for 100 years and allowing people to pass the right to farm the land on to their children.
Mr Hostetler, who bought his farm from an in-law who had used pesticides, had to farm the land for three years without chemical inputs before he was passed.
Oscar-winning director James Cameron sold his 703 acres in Puerco Canyon to The Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority, and aside from having several buildings and old roads associated with a decades-old pig farm, the land is undeveloped.
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Mr Finlay, who spent 22 years in the army, said he hoped to open a "care farm" on the land to help rehabilitate homeless ex-servicemen and women.
Watford council says using the Farm Terrace allotment land will "make the scheme viable".
The country's State Forestry Administration estimates that desertification affects 400 million Chinese, many of whom lose the ability to farm their land or graze their animals and join the ranks of the tens of millions of internal environmental refugees, who often migrate to the big cities in search of new homes and jobs.
The only dry land on the farm was an area about eight feet wide around the house.
The power plant at Rainbarrow Farm, on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwall, is a joint venture between local farmers and the Duchy.
We passed a large farm where the wide open land was lined with carefully trimmed cherry trees.
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Few smallholders can afford to invest in farm machinery, so the land is still worked by hand.
He came from a small Norwegian farm in Iowa, the land of butter-sculptures and the breaded tenderloin sandwich.
The Belward Farm land in Maryland is near other tracts of former farmland that attracted housing development thanks to its proximity to Washington.
But a few years later, Adam found himself back on the family farm, and he noticed that working the land was therapeutic.
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Tom Temple ran the family farm near Morpeth but his love of the land was matched only by his passion for making films.
Councillor John Williams, who has represented the Rassau ward for 37 years, said he had had to sell his farm and land as part of the dual carriageway scheme.
It said Beijing needs to protect farmers' interests by ensuring they receive more income from the sale of farm land.
Instead of saving the family farm, the policy is destroying it, encouraging agricultural land consolidation and raising barriers to entry.
The two packages of land - one at Homelands Farm 2, the other at Cleevelands - could see about 1, 000 new homes built alongside the 450 homes currently being put up at the site known as Homelands 1.
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Some critics say the new farm aid has more to do with politics and land values, steady for some years after a sharp rise in the early 1990s, than with farm incomes.
"We don't force feed the animals, they feed and live freely on our land, " says the farm's owner, Eduardo Sousa.
Many poor people who live in or near forests may actually welcome the opportunity to farm on deforested land and bureaucrats in distant capitals may think that unsustainable and low-revenue-yielding forest operations are politically preferable to what they perceive as expensive alternatives.
The 20-hectare solar farm will be located off the A303 in Ilminster on private land on the Dillington Estate.
All the old complex payments for what farmers were able to produce have been replaced by just one subsidy based upon the amount of land the farmer has - known as the Single Farm Payment.
This is the key issue: which farm land should be protected and who gets to say so?
Locals have to go into the bush to farm small plots of land, a dangerous necessity, explains camp leader Tomo Kello(ph).
The Cluver family gave 100 hectares of unfarmed land from their 2, 000-hectare farm to the 147 people living in villages close to their farm.
In a recent op-ed in the New York Times he argues we are running out of land and need to take agriculture off the farm.
The solar farm itself should materialize on 2, 600 acres of private land in Imperial County, near the Mexican border.
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