The New Face of Family Farms
by Lindy Shute
2018江苏卷C篇
If you want to disturb the auto industry, you’d better have a few billion dollars: Mom-and-pop automakers are unlikely to beat the Big Three. But in agriculture, small operators can outdo the major players. By connecting directly with customers, and by responding quickly to changes in the markets as well as in their ecosystems, small farmers can keep one step ahead of the big guys. As the co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition and a family farmer mylf, I have a front-row at to the innovations among small farmers that are transforming the industry.
For example, take the Quick Cut Greens
Harvester, a tool developed just a couple of
years ago by a young farmer, Jonathan
Dysinger, in Tenne, with a small loan from
a local Slow Money group. It enables small-
scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of greens
per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting
just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly
putting the little guys in contention with the
large farms of California. Before the tool came
out, small farmers couldn’t touch the price per
pound offered by California farms. But now,
with the combination of a better price point and a generally fresher product, they can stay in business.
The sustained高尔夫球场草坪
success of small farmers, though, won’t happen without fundamental changes to the industry. One crucial factor is cure access to land. Competition from investors, developers, and est
ablished large farmers makes owning one’s own land unattainable for many aspiring new farmers. From 2004 to 2013, agricultural real-estate values doubled, and they continue to ri in many regions.
Another challenge for more than a million of the most qualified farmworkers and managers is a nonexistent path to citizenship—the ultimate barrier to building a farm of their own. With farm operators over the age of 65 outnumbering farmers younger than 35 by a margin of six to one, and with two-thirds of the nation’s farmland in need of a new farmer, we must clear the path for talented people willing to grow the nation’s food.
There are solutions that could light a path toward a more sustainable and equitable farm economy, but farmers can’t cobble them together in our barns. We at the National Young Farmers Coalition need broad support as we urge Congress to scale up farmland conrvation, as we push for immigration reform, and as we pursue policies that will ensure the success of a diver and ambitious next generation of farmers from all backgrounds. With a new farm bill on the horizon in Congres榴莲壳怎么吃
s, consumers must take a stand with young farmers.
一、词汇表
二、选词填空
1. You can apply for after five years' r派大星语录
esidency.居住五年后可申请公民资格。
2. She beat the other runners by a of ten conds.她以领先十秒的优势战胜了其他赛跑者。
3. My interests are very .
我的兴趣非常广泛。
4. They live in a converted .
他们住在由谷仓改成的房子里。
5. A study of couples in cond marriages
对再婚夫妇的小范围研究
6.Lots of couples have problems in the first year of marriage. Ann and Paul.在婚后头一年里，许多夫卡通火箭
妇都出现一些问题。安和保罗就是个例子。
7.He came from an working-class background.
他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。
8. A military victory中秋手抄报内容
is .
不可能取得军事胜利。
答案：1.citizenship 2. margin 3. diver 4. barn 5. small-scale
6.Take
7.aspiring
8. unattainable
9. outnumbered 10. horizon
11. equitable12. cobble 13. sca护士工作总结个人
le up 14.Sustainable 15. ecosystems
三、翻译填空
10.Membership almost in two years.
两年内会员数目几乎翻了一番
11.The plan was given only support.
这项计划只得到有限度的支持。
12. The administration has now endord the and can't turn back.
政府部门如今已经签署了那项法案，没有挽回的余地。
13.The engineer has many technical to his credit.
这位工程师有许多项技术革新的成就.
14.America has enough firepower in the area to mount air strikes.
美国在该地区拥有足够的火力发动持续的空中打击。
15.One of the most denly populated of North America
北美人口最为稠密的地区之一
答案：1.combination 2. crucial 3. ultimate barrier 4. clear a path for 5. pushing for
6. outdo
7. transform
8. fundamental
9. established 10. doubled 11. qual累的反义词
ified
12. bill 13. innovations 14.sustained 15. regions
