1.   Bulmers have nearly two thousand acres of cider orchards... and they also supply trees from their nursery to contract growers too.

2.   Contract growers supply the rest.

3.   Even near Guerneville, where Piper Sonoma has contract growers, most of the vines are deep-rooted and can endure substantial amounts of flooding, he said.

4.   Newer pots the improvements in waste-water treatment, and that the mountain of chicken excrement produced on the land of contract growers remains barely regulated at all.

5.   The winery also buys grapes from contract growers, Theo Giesen said on a recent trip to the United States.

6.   He said one way was for independent farmers to be clustered or become contract growers to integrators.

7.   Maryland wants to impose new regulations that would make big poultry processors like Allen Foods and Tyson Foods oversee how their contract growers handle chicken waste.

8.   The difference was in grading and warehouse fees the contract growers were spared.

9.   The initial Reva batch was traced to the Paloma Ranch near Gila Bend, a contract grower of pasta-quality wheat for Borden, Inc.