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...the designer’s “Totomoxtle” series (2018), in which he turned discarded corn husks into richly patterned furniture marquetry in hues of purple and yellow, a collaboration with a community of indigenous farmers...
...Motivated by the biblical injunction to “love thy neighbour”, the company’s owners decided early on to circumvent the coffee industry’s middlemen and instead source directly from farmers themselves....
...We have to seek them out where we can, from the few valiant farmers who still grow them. Or from private gardens....
...Brash, a former fruit farmer who had seen his uncle’s life savings destroyed by inflation, held firm....
...David Perry, Indigo chief executive, said: “The accelerating demand from our customers is why we’re focusing our resources on the fastest growing areas of our business and scaling them with increased investments...
...Make your decisions as you take in the schmaltzy soundtrack of Frank Sinatra and Perry Como....
...“We hear a lot of talk about partnerships but if a supplier says it cannot agree to certain terms, then the retailer can always go somewhere else,” Ms Perry says....
...and ranchers to adopt conservation management practices to improve soil health and reduce emissions Mr Perry said a farmer would probably be able to capture 2 to 3 tonnes of carbon dioxide per acre a year...
...David Perry, Indigo’s chief executive, said that its purchase of TellusLabs would “bolster our effort to produce rigorous and useful agronomic recommendations tailored to each acre of a farm.”...
...Mr Perry and co-founder Geoffrey von Maltzahn, Indigo’s chief innovation officer, have launched a partnership with 80 large-scale farmers to trial the company’s microbial products....
...Miles Farmer, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, described the plan as "insane", saying it would generate “huge market uncertainty” for the electricity industry....
...Mr Perry agrees....
...selfie with Mary Lou McDonald, right, the party’s southern leader, and Michelle O’Neill, centre, its northern leader, in front of the Bobby Sands mural in Belfast, Northern Ireland Sunday March 5 Katy Perry...
...But when the case of Martin and Pamela White, farmers who were divorcing after 33 years of marriage and business partnership, came before the House of Lords, the ruling transformed the law....
...Commodore Perry and his rivals pried this isolationist country open to western traders. Japan quickly began to “modernise”, importing the west’s strait-laced morality along with its technology....
...Donald Trump recently announced that Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen should be ashamed of herself; in the previous US presidential campaign, Governor Rick Perry accused her predecessor Ben Bernanke of...
...“The major thing is trying to understand the cost of production for the farmer. We come up with the price together, incorporating the feedback from the farmer,” says Ms Perry....
...Imagine you are a champion raisin farmer. Every year you produce the ripest, plumpest raisins....
...The Tories benefited most from the support of wealthy businessmen and financiers, including Lord Farmer and JCB, the equipment manufacturer....
...A 15-year-old farmer’s daughter, who was helping serve the meal, glanced at the bag and asked, “Is that a knock-off?”...
...Colombia is forecast to grow 4.8 per cent this year, although a strong appreciation of the peso has dented export competitiveness and hurt manufacturers and farmers....
...Rebank, shepherd and Oxford history graduate from a line of sheep farmers, has a powerful prose style and his book, wrote the FT’s reviewer, is “utterly unsentimental . . . profoundly moving”....
...The strategy behind content marketing is similar to Michelin’s thinking when it produced its first guide for drivers in 1900 or machinery maker John Deere’s 1895 magazine for farmers, The Furrow, but the...
...Meanwhile, farmers are either hoarding grain or have none to sell....
...Perry Vieth, president of US land fund manager Ceres Partners, said: “It is farmers who are buying. When Goldman Sachs shows up at the auction, I’ll know it’s time to flip over to the sell side.”...
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