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CROP FARMER [7 records]

Record 1 2025-04-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Plant and Crop Production
OBS

Curtis Stone, in The Urban Farmer... distinguishes between Quick Crops(maturing in 60 days or less) and Steady Crops(slower maturing, perhaps harvested continuously over a period of time)... he has designed a crop value rating system based on five characteristics : Shorter days to maturity(fast crops=chance to plant more; give a point for 60 days or less) ;High yield per linear foot(best value from the space; a point for 1/2 pound/linear foot or more) ;Higher price per pound(other factors being equal, higher price=more income; a point for $4 or more per pound) ;Long harvest period(=more sales; a point for 4 months or longer) ;Popularity(high demand, low market saturation).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie agricole
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
CONT

L'étiquette bleue est la preuve que vous avez utilisé une semence certifiée pour maintenir les caractères de la valeur de la récolte. C’est l'assurance que vous donnez aux acheteurs de graines et à d'autres que ce qu'ils obtiennent est bel et bien ce que vous dites.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía agrícola
  • Producción vegetal
CONT

Los cálculos indican que el valor de la cosecha cafetera totalizaría $13 billones en 2022, lo que representaría un incremento de 21,5% respecto a 2021, cuando el valor fue de $10,7 billones.

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Record 2 2025-02-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

Herbicides form potent tools to check the mixed flora of weeds in close row crop like wheat where manual or mechanical weeding is difficult and certain grassy weeds evade farmer hoe because of botanical mimicry at early growth stage.

Key term(s)
  • close-row crop

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
CONT

Les cultures à petits interlignes (ex.: céréales) ainsi que les cultures de pleine surface (ex.: prairies) favorisent en effet beaucoup moins l'érosion que les cultures à larges interlignes (ex.: maïs).

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Producción vegetal
CONT

Normalmente se utiliza para el corte de cocos, [aunque]​ era también una herramienta usual para cosechar cultivos en hileras estrechas en bancales, tales como arroz, frijol mungo, la soja y el maní.

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Record 3 2022-08-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Plant and Crop Production
  • Animal Husbandry
OBS

The mixed farmer generally produces more than one crop while also raising some livestock.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
  • Élevage des animaux

Spanish

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Record 4 2022-06-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Agricultural Economics
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Real Estate
  • Law of Contracts (common law)
CONT

In contrast to cash rent, the tenant farmer pays the landlord a share of the crop. This arrangement puts the landlord, like the tenant operator, at risk from variation in yields and prices. For the farm operator, crop share rent is a mechanism for sharing risks with the landlord.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie agricole
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Immobilier
  • Droit des contrats (common law)

Spanish

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Record 5 2016-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Farm Management and Policy
  • Rural Law
  • Plant and Crop Production
CONT

Plants and plant varieties are protected in Canada under Plant Breeders Rights(PBR) ;not under patents. PBRs are considered by many to be a much weaker form of protection given the extent of the significant exemptions which have no counterpart in patent law. For example, under what is commonly called "farmer's privilege", a farmer can save the seeds from a previous year's crop and plant them in the following years.

CONT

The PVPA [Plant Variety Protection Act] provides that there are certain exceptions to infringement, the most well-known being the "farmer’s exemption" [which] provides that it is not an act of infringement: for a person to save seed produced by him from seed obtained or descended from seed obtained, by authority of the owner of the variety for seeding purposes and use such saved seed in the production of a crop for use on his farm, or for sale ... for other than reproductive purposes ...

Key term(s)
  • farmer privilege
  • farmer exemption

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion et politique agricole
  • Droit rural
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
CONT

Le privilège de l'agriculteur est le droit qu'a ce dernier de conserver du matériel végétal comme semences pour les saisons subséquentes (compétition entre les semences conservées par l'agriculteur et les semences fournies par les sélectionneurs), ce qui s'avérerait généralement une violation dans le cas du matériel breveté.

OBS

droit de l'agriculteur; privilège de l'agriculteur : termes extraits du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduits avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 6 2004-06-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Agriculture - General
CONT

To be considered a self-employed farmer the person must : 1. Be engaged in farming activity for the purpose of producing income, and 2. Have direct involvement in farming activity. For example, a person who rents his land to another individual to raise a crop is not a self-employed farmer if he is not directly involved in the growing or harvesting of the crop.... Farm self-employment income generally consists of earnings derived by an individual as the sole proprietor of his farm. 2. A sole proprietorship is an unincorporated business that has no existence apart from the owner. 3. The business liabilities are the personal liabilities of the single owner.

Key term(s)
  • self employed farmer

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Agriculture - Généralités

Spanish

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Record 7 1999-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Milling and Cereal Industries
  • Fire, Accidents, Miscellaneous Risks (Insur.)
OBS

"outturn": an amount of something (as of a crop ...) turned out ...

OBS

In this context, "outturn" refers to the amount of grain delivered to an elevator. Since a portion of grain is lost, for various reasons, during transportation, the farmer insures his crop to guarantee that a certain amount will be delivered to the elevator.

OBS

Information provided by the Winnipeg Translation Bureau section.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minoterie et céréales
  • Incendies, accidents et risques divers (Assur.)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Molinería y cereales
  • Incendio, accidentes y riesgos varios (Seguros)
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