Sentences with phrase «about sheep farming»

The gorgeous Icelandic landscape provides the backdrop to this story about sheep farming and family reconciliation.

Not exact matches

The leaders of Animal Farm maintain thought control by obscuring the facts with smokescreens, rewriting history, creating conspiracy theories about pending attacks, faking victims, slander, scapegoating, murdering opposition, outrageous public works projects to keep the animals busy, and through a large group of useful idiots — sheep — that spread their message unthinkingly and distract dissenters.

The questioner asked Isay about farm boys who might be attracted to sheep.

One of my parishioners immediately leaped to his feet and, asserting that I had never worked on a farm and therefore knew nothing about sheep, proceeded not only to challenge what I had just said but to make me look like an idiot.

By Renee Ciulla Green rolls of open hills dotted with lines of solid, red silos and white grazing sheep appeal to and please even those who aren't passionate about farming themselves.

Current research indicates there are now about 20 % less Australians from urban centres visiting cattle or sheep farms annually compared to six years ago.

Target 100 is an initiative of Australian cattle and sheep farmers, alongside the broader industry, to deliver sustainable farming by 2020 and help Australians understand more about where their beef and lamb comes from.

The Volkening planners are being so precise about the authenticity of their farm that they are evicting five sheep, members of a breed — horned dorset — that wouldn't have been seen on an 1880s farm, King said.

Now, the same groups have built more elaborate models that paint a detailed picture of how the British countryside was ravaged by the FMD virus, taking into account things such as the location of every farm, the estimated number of pigs, cattle, and sheep each farm contained, as well as exhaustive data about the spread of the disease and the culling process.

Cheers to Danish director Thomas Vinterberg for blowing the antiquated dust off Thomas Hardy's 1874 novel about a willful heroine who'd rather muck about in sheep dip on a farm she inherited than marry guys who treat her like property.

Kingsolver manages to make a huge amount of information about lepidoptery, sheep farming and lambing, global warming and the environment, easy to assimilate by incorporating it into this wonderfully uplifting tale.

HI I would be interested in learning more about your dog I live on a farm outside phoenixville pa and have goats, sheep, cows, chickens.

You can use the opportunity to learn about a particular type of organic farming, such as working on a vineyard or sheep station.

Visiting a sheep farm, seeing glowworms, learning about Maori culture, browsing farm stands and seeing geothermal areas.

Take a drive through this stunning 1,250 acre sheep farm whilst hearing about how the Hobbiton Set was created.

Having mainly used sea creatures in his previous formaldehyde works, Hirst embraced the strange juxtaposition that a farm animal presented, saying: «When I did the sheep I remember thinking that it might not work, because what was good about the fish was that you were putting them into their own habitat, liquid, but then with the sheep, it just had a brilliant sort of tragedy.

Visiting a farm on Exmoor last week, I was reminded of all that is beautiful about keeping sheep.