Another of the group's aims was to cut costs and make their farms more sustainable for the next generation of farmers.
Mr Wilson said that target was "certainly achievable", and he warned that planning rules currently under review would make wind farms easier to push through.
She tells me its especially important for her since she comes from a family of people who make their living on farms.
These part-timers have watched the value of their land fall dramatically since the property bubble burst over a decade ago, and have failed to make investments in their farms.
The industry's success in Texas (where my company is based, and which is the nation's largest and cheapest producer of wind power) suggests that wind farms do make sense in relatively windy areas where electricity shortages occur.
This might make sense for large scale solar farms, since the integration of PV would allow the overall price of power to be lower than CSP alone, while CSP would be able to compensate for the rapid output changes from PV that occur whenever a cloud passes over, as well as producing power at night, or shifting it ot peak afternoon periods.
The higher the initial allotment, the less companies have to make up by buying indulgences from pig farms.
One is the loss of habitat as forests are chopped down to make way for factories, mines and farms.
It recommended that the government award decades-long, more or less fixed-price contracts to firms to make sure that nuclear plants and wind farms get built.
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The recent weakness in farmland prices, especially relative to stock prices, should make value players all the more interested in farms just now.
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Miguel Teubal, an economist at the University of Buenos Aires, reckons that two dairy farms a day are disappearing to make way for soya.
The ability to get a loan is how you finance the purchase of everything from a home to a car to a college education, how stores stock their shelves, farms buy equipment, and businesses make payroll.
They live on the farms for free, so the money they make in a month can nearly cover their expenses for the year.
Hog and dairy farms have also been purchasing turbines both to make electricity and to escape strict new regulations on gas emissions.
Processors will be able to make up the difference by buying more meat from local poultry farms.
Laws regarding the compulsory collection of animal carcasses from farms have also been relaxed where exceptional weather conditions make off-site disposal impossible.
The two layers of taxation for public companies make common stocks a less than ideal investment medium for solar farms, unlike the private equity investments and LLCs used by large investors.
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The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), a quango with the ability to force through important national projects over the objections of locals, is supposed to make it easier to build power lines, storage plants, wind farms and the like.
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They make knit fabrics, exhaust manifolds, cable anchors and milk coolers for dairy farms, respectively.
Mr Roddick told the meeting he will make it a new priority to deal with rural crime, particularly thefts from farms.
Mr. Henley says he spent several years learning to make foie gras that wouldn't violate the California ban, visiting small farms in Hungary and France that feed birds a smaller amount.
The stakes are higher this time: Over the past decade wind component manufacturers have set up shop in the U.S. to make turbines, blades and other parts for the massive machines near where wind farms are being built.
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Before the reforms, the state bought rice from state farms and co-operatives at 82 chon per kilo (100 chon make one won, worth less than a cent at the official exchange rate).
You make a relevant argument about growing food , but in the case of food the farms are still owned by individual farmers, granted less people are doing more work, and also granted that big companies mostly buy all the produce but still the meaning of productions are held by individuals.
To make snares, the poachers tear down the wire fences that keep wild animals away from cattle farms.
Improvements to tractors or fertilisers make it possible for one person to look after a slightly larger area each year, so farms get bigger and a few more people leave.
Furthermore, the radiation that has already been released in and around the plant could make TEPCO liable for an unknown amount of damages incurred by local residences, businesses, and farms in the area.
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Some people near wind farms believe that most of the benefits are seen by the energy companies (who make a profit from their turbines) and the government (which gets closer to its carbon reduction targets), while the negative affects are all heaped on the local community.
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