Sentences with phrase «early farmers did»

Early farmers did not use the plough, and that meant constantly shifting cultivation to the most fertile areas.

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After thoroughly reviewing existing literature on the pros and cons of crop diversification, and interviewing local experts, it became clear that some Ghanaian cocoa farmers do diversify — most commonly in the form of shade crops or intercrops at the early stages of the cocoa plant's life — but the approach is uncoordinated and haphazard.

Earlier this month, three Aussie Farmers franchises servicing well - to - do Melbourne suburbs including Kew, Hawthorn, Balwyn, Mont Albert and Brunswick West were offered for sale for $ 650,000, while a franchise in Sydney was being offered for $ 215,000.

The Dane County Farmers Market on this day was open from 6 a.m. - 2 p.m., but with only a two hour drive to get there, it's still not too far to drive to get there early, if you plan and don't stop to ride the merry - go - round.

At a small hotel in Dolores, Colorado, where LeBlanc is preparing for a lecture at a nearby museum, he talks about that early work at El Morro: «What were these people doing at 7,200 feet in such a crummy place, trying to be corn farmers?

Does in - furrow application have an economic benefit for farmers planting corn earlier in cool, wet soils?

Early hunter - gatherers didn't adopt farming practices as they spread through Europe, although some had sex with farmers and joined their groups

So how did early farmers figure out that spreading manure was a key to farming success?

It's still early in the tomato season, and the juicy varieties that epitomise summer for many of us don't hit farmer's markets for at least another month.

In some ways, it's not a bad thing, because farmers are planting earlier than they did back in the 1970s so they actually need varieties that will mature later than back then.

Paradoxically, while archaeology shows that Europe's earliest farmers hailed from the Near East, populations living in that region today do not particularly resemble them genetically.

Farmers don't want to take a risk in losing their entire wheat and barley crop, so they will take a cut in yield and quality by using glyphosate a few weeks before harvest, and then harvest the crop early.

The farmers market is a great option if you are looking for something to do during a lunch hour or early morning on the weekend.

What they don't know is that a peat farmer has just been summarily attacked in a stagnant pool after unearthing what appears to be some sort of bog mummy earlier in the day.

The expression, which apparently originated from a story by a farmer to his son in the early 1900s, teaches that the activity of weighing or measuring does not produce results or improve performance — it simply...

The expression, which apparently originated from a story by a farmer to his son in the early 1900s, teaches that the activity of weighing or measuring does not produce results or improve performance — it simply measures outcomes.

They also have amazingly strong respiratory and circulatory systems, probably due to the intensive screening done by early farmers and shepherds in only continuing to breed the healthiest and best working dogs.

Early coming spring make farmers hesitate how can they do.

We do not offer internships or apprenticeships, but we hire paid, part - time farmers in late winter or early spring.

Rather than taking on any transactional legal matter like he did in the early days, Jason became «The Food Law Firm» and focused his services only on farmers, food manufacturers, and other food related businesses.

Early in the country's history, Americans bought much of the food they didn't grow themselves from local farmers at public markets that were a focal point of their communities.