Sentences with phrase «by early farmers»

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.

While the highland bogs may have been created by early farmers cutting down trees and burning the grasses, lowland bogs formed naturally.

It shows widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early farmers and pushes back the chronology of human - honeybee association to substantially earlier dates.»

These are geographic zones where a distinct range of edible plants were domesticated and developed by early farmers thousands of years ago, to become the food crops we know and love today.

Not exact matches

The Rodgers Forge Garden Club, hosted by Elaine Pollack, had a record breaking number of visitors to its first veggie swap / farmers market in early July.

Untreated manure of all types has the potential to pose a food safety risk, and farmers, organic and conventional alike, have traditionally mitigated this risk by applying manure to their fields early in the season before they have planted the crop.

This soup was inspired by an early, cool Saturday morning trip to the farmer's market.

Early on they grew and sold oats — which were purchased by an organic farmer in the region — and green manure crops.

Treasurer Scott Morrison has had the ACCC looking into the whole dairy industry for the past 12 months, while the competition regulator singled out Murray Goulburn earlier this year claiming it had misled farmers by overstating its milk price forecast.

That led people who had been inspired by Oliver's earlier work in nutrition to see his alliance with Woolworths as a sellout, and farmers to balk at the Jamie Oliver Tax requested by Woolworths for every box of produce supplied to support their Jamie Oliver marketing campaign.

Richard Hampton, managing director at OMSCo, said; «We initiated projects to boost iodine levels and applied these to our farmer members» enterprises, and by early 2015 we announced that we'd achieved comparable levels with those in the conventional market.

That requires a very early start, and would bring me right by the farmers market which is selling some fresh strawberries...

The group said that an earlier agreement involving processors to raise retail milk prices by two pence per litre had failed to benefit farmers.

Two of Britain's leading supermarket groups raised the price of milk earlier this week by two pence a litre in a move designed to help ease the increasingly difficult economic situation facing many of the UK's dairy farmers.

Earlier this week, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee called for protection provided against major retailers by the Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) yo be extended to all dairy farmers and small - scale producers.

The move comes after Laïta signed a charter for unified values across the French dairy sector supported by the French National Federation of Dairy Farmers (FNPL) earlier this year.

From its earliest days, the MIA was populated by Italian workers, some of whom were initially employed by Australian farmers to run steamboats on the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers.

Farmers withstood the High Plains» frequent droughts and dry spells by pumping groundwater from the region's aquifers, a trend that accelerated sharply with the electrification of rural America in the early 20th century.

The digital sugarcane, described earlier this year by researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana — Champaign, illustrates how crops in silicomight aid farmers.

About 10,000 to 9,500 years ago, African wildcats (Felis silvestris lybica) may have tamed themselves by hunting rodents and eating scraps from the homes of early farmers in the Middle East.

Early farmers brought domesticated cats with them into Europe from the Middle East by 6,400 years ago, analysis of cat remains suggests.

Studies by George Armelagos and his colleagues then at the University of Massachusetts show these early farmers paid a price for their new - found livelihood.

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

This week, an international research team led by palaeogeneticists of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) published a study in the journal Science showing that the earliest farmers from the Zagros mountains in Iran, i.e., the eastern part of the Fertile Crescent, are neither the main ancestors of Europe's first farmers nor of modern - day Europeans.

The move follows reports earlier this month from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) that three pesticides routinely used by farmers pose an «acute risk» to essential honey bees.

The bighead and the silver species, the two notorious carp, were brought into Arkansas in the early 1970s by an entrepreneurial fish farmer.

The authors conclude that»... by 4400 years ago, early farmers had already had a substantial homogenizing effect on allelic diversity at three genes associated with maize morphology and biochemical properties of the corn cob.»

But apparently by always selecting animals that looked like pigs and not boars, these early farmers were able to enhance and maintain piglike behavior and traits.

The team, which reports its results online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that millet was farmed at Dadiwan in its earliest phases but not by rice farmers from the south.

In early June, a farmer in southern England used weed killer to destroy 26 acres of engineered oilseed rape produced by a biotech company called AgrEvo, because his farm's trustees were opposed to the trials and were worried that the rape might contaminate nearby organic crops.

Hunter - gatherers may have brought agricultural products to the British Isles by trading wheat and other grains with early farmers from the European mainland.

The study, published today in Science and funded by Wellcome and Royal Society, examined ancient DNA from some of the world's first farmers from the Zagros region of Iran and found it to be very different from the genomes of early farmers from the Aegean and Europe.

By looking at how ancient and living people share long sections of DNA, the team showed that early farming populations were highly genetically structured, and that some of that structure was preserved as farming, and farmers, spread into neighbouring regions; Europe to the west and southern Asia to the east.

But two new papers suggest that they were at home on both the land and the sea: Studies of ancient and modern human DNA, including the first reported ancient DNA from early Middle Eastern farmers, indicate that agriculture spread to Europe via a coastal route, probably by farmers using boats to island hop across the Aegean and Mediterranean seas.

Very early farming sites have been excavated on Cyprus, but researchers were not sure whether they represented a small population pushed off the mainland — perhaps by population pressure or competition with other farmers — or the beginnings of a major migration across the sea to Europe.

It could allow farmers to mitigate the negative effects of climate change early by adding fertilisers or tweaking moisture levels as crops grow.

«Zinc - Shakthi, an early - maturing wheat variety released in India in 2014 whose grain features 40 percent more zinc than conventional varieties, is already grown by more than 50,000 smallholder farmers in the Northeastern Gangetic Plains of India.»

The son of two rice farmers was enchanted early by the role of medicine in health.

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.

Farmers in America discovered this early last century when they tried to fatten their cattle by feeding them coconut oil.

HARARE, Zimbabwe - Some of the thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers evicted from their land in the early 2000s by President Robert Mugabe's supporters

Copyright © 2016 HARARE, Zimbabwe - Some of the thousands of white Zimbabwean farmers evicted from their land in the early 2000s by President Robert Mugabe's supporters

Having established his bona fides, he then tackled his first project with a professional cast, led by Dennis Quaid and Zac Efron, but despite its topical subject matter — the plight of the American farmer — At Any Price seemed hopelessly contrived.99 Homes takes the best qualities of his early efforts and channels them through a well - crafted screenplay, brought to life by top - flight actors.

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.

The book portrays the hardships endured by farmers in the early years of Communist rule.

In mid-19th century Germany, early pioneers like Friedrich Raiffeisen and Hermann Schulze - Delizch were the first to develop practical credit associations, or credit unions, to help farmers struggling from the effects of famine and exorbitant interest rates charged by money lenders.

DELTONA - Three dogs that authorities think mortally wounded a 9 - month - old lamb last week at Deltona Middle School were put to death on Tuesday.The dogs - a black Labrador, a pit - bull mix and a red chow - chow - were captured by Deltona Animal Control employees on Jan. 13 after the lamb was discovered early that morning in a pen at the school on Enterprise Road.The lamb, a Florida native ewe named Lily, was part of a Future Farmers of America project.None of the dogs had identification tags.

In the early 1980 concerned for the jaguars was raised by a number of farmers in the area that saw Jaguars in their orchards.

A Wisconsin farmer by trade, Martin's photo - realistic paintings recount a long history of early mornings on the family farm.