Sentences with phrase «caused by the farmers»

Andy, I was just trying to have a little fun, I wasn't serious... Mind you the QLD telecoms outage a couple of years ago WAS caused by a farmer digging up the optical fibre trunk link.

Do we deny that the increase in eggs is (at least partially) caused by the farmers adding more chickens to the system?

Not exact matches

The shad, like the Concord farmers, have, as he says, a «just cause,» and when he asks what might avail a crowbar against the Billerica Dam, he is pointing, by means of a parable, to a radically new understanding of the story of human existence.

Although monetization is a common and necessary practice, CARE maintains that the sale of this food in the fragile markets of recipient countries competes with the sale of food produced by local farmers, causing prices to drop and lowering farmers» income.

One example, she notes, is the lake effect caused by Lake Erie, which can delay planting for northern Ohio and Pennsylvania farmers.

It is a holistic effort to tackle the root causes of child labor, by helping cocoa farmers to increase their income, to enhance their agricultural techniques, and to improve their understanding of child labor issues.

As a result of price pressures caused by imported catfish, the Catfish Farmers of America (CFA) is pushing for legislation that requires country - of - origin labeling on restaurant menus.

The federal government will meet Canadian dairy farmers within 30 days to discuss a compensation package designed to ease any pain caused by Canada signing the Canada - European Union trade deal.

In large part, this can be caused by poor practices — either in the farmer's treatment of the animals or the manufacturer's processing of the protein source.

Reducing food loss in supermarkets is an important issue in terms of the efforts to increase profit in supermarkets, to increase income for small farmers supplying to supermarkets, and to improve food security in urban areas, as well as avoid environmental problems caused by food waste.

The ACCC has issued its interim report into the dairy industry, making several recommendations, including consideration of a a mandatory code of conduct for the industry «to address problems caused by bargaining power imbalances between processors and farmers».

Uncertainties over milk purchasing levels and payments caused by the financial crisis at dairy giant Parmalat is forcing southern European farmers into a race to secure guaranteed sales that may quickly put pressure on milk prices.

The farmers accept the by - product — even though it's like «feeding a candy bar» to their cattle and causes digestive problems in the cows if given in large quantities — because the yogurt makers are paying them to take the problem off their proverbial plates.

«The DAIRY Act will give the New York dairy community the boost it needs to ride the Greek yogurt wave... After years of struggle caused by the recession, I want to make sure as much of that milk as possible comes from New York and that our state's dairy farmers don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to grow their businesses.»

As the state's dairy farmers continue to navigate a tailspin caused by reduced demand and changes in Canada's milk classification policies, the lawmaker is prioritizing fixing the Margin Protection Program (MPP), an initiative to safeguard farmers against fluctuating prices.

He reiterated that the farmers and herdsmen's clashes which had led to loss of lives and property were caused by the influx of weapons into the country through the trans - Saharan routes.

According to him, this will prevent clashes between nomadic livestock herders and crop farmers as well as protect the environment from degradation and pollution caused by open rearing and grazing of livestock.

In Spain, there have been several years with less rain than normal, and according to a recent report by Unión de Pequeños Agricultores y Ganaderos (union of small farmers and ranchers, UPA), in 2017, droughts caused losses of more than 3,600 million euros in the agricultural sector in Spain, mostly due a big loss of productivity in crops.

During periods of extreme dry weather caused by El Niño and a phenomenon called the positive Indian Ocean Dipole, smoke emissions are considerably higher — either because farmers are taking advantage of the dry weather to burn more land or because once burning, the fires are more difficult to control.

Coupled with soil maps and other global positioning system (GPS)- referenced data, this imagery can then be used by farmers and engineers to determine the cause of the variation and what should be done about it.

But the adoption of pyrethroids by sheep farmers seems to be the most likely cause.

Farmers will probably continue to insist on culling, Streicker notes, because even uninfected bats can harm livestock by causing festering wounds.

This is almost as bad for farmers as drought, since the rain falls on parched ground with extra force, and much of it runs off without soaking into the ground, and it causes damage to boot by washing away soil and plants.

In addition, by guarding their existing crops during the night, farmers are increasingly exposed to malaria carried by mosquitos and soil - based worms which cause elephantiasis.

Light - fingered chimpanzees are changing the way subsistence farmers make a living in Africa by causing them to grow different crops and spend more time guarding their goods.

Although tilapia fish provides ideal characteristics for production and represents an excellent economic opportunity for Veracruz, the species faces health problems caused by pests, so farmers constantly see their profits diminished, researchers say.

Although tilapia fish provides ideal characteristics for production and represents an excellent economic opportunity for Veracruz, the species faces health problems caused by pests, so farmers constantly see their profits diminished.

Unfortunately, dialysis and organ transplants aren't as accessible in parts of the world most affected by CKDu, meaning most farmers with the CKDu caused by glyphosate toxicity will lose their lives to it.

What we have here is a chemical that causes DNA mutation, clear skin inflammation, and is nearly identical to a cancer - causing chemical, but is still being used by nearly every commercial potato farmer around.

Unless human beings begin playing their part in the cycle of life by eating animal foods obtained from farmers raising their cattle on grass pasture, then we will be the cause of our own extinction.

It can also be used to gain a CREST award Students initially look at some of the problems caused by climate change then design and make a model of their solution to a problem faced by farmers in Bangladesh... how to grow food even when the land floods.

The law will also stop the Legislature and local communities from passing laws or ordinances after November 2016 to address any water and air pollution caused by factory farms, harm to other farmers» and residents» land not withstanding.

In fact, language in the state question allows virtually anyone to identify as a farmer if their activities have anything to do with animals; it essentially allows them to do whatever they want with the animals on their property, even if their practices would be considered inhumane by most Oklahomans» standards or cause a nuisance or even damage to other landowners.

[19] The native flora was affected by the forage grasses that farmers introduced to feed their flocks, and by soil - compaction caused by the sheep's hooves.

With angst around colony collapse disorder and the plight of the honeybees causing some to explore the idea of «human bee pollinators» (seriously, many farmers in China do now pollinate fruit trees by hand due to lack of bees), it might be a comforting thought that there are also other pollinators out there who can pick up the slack for the disappearing bees.

And deforestation caused by agriculture, particularly coffee plantations, leaves native birds without a habitat, though conservation groups are working with local farmers to promote shade - grown coffee and end clear - cutting.

The drought has caused the state's farmers to tap into groundwater supplies for irrigation water, leading to a massive drawdown in aquifers that take decades to centuries to be recharged by natural rainfall.

Ag apunta: a water shortfall caused mainly by farmers switching to permanent all - year - round crops.

And fires, including those touched off by lightning, were more likely to cause wide damage to forests already fragmented by roads or by farmers clearing land to plant crops such as soya beans.

But pollution also covers hundreds of chemicals which are fine or even beneficial at low levels but which if released in large quantities or in problematic circumstances cause «harm» — like phosphorus (grows your veges but also leads to toxic cyanobacterial blooms which kill cattle), nitrogen (grows crops kills many native species of plants and promotes weed growth costing farmers), copper (used as an oxygen carrier by gastropods but in high concentrations kills the life in sediments which feed fish), hormones like oestrogen (essential for regulating bodies but in high concentrations confuse reproductive cycles especially with marine life) or maybe molasses from a sugar mill (good for rum but when dumped into east coast estuaries used to cause oxygen sag in estuaries leading to massive fish kills).

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There are many underlying causes for these fires, including the draining of swampy peat soils to make way for palm oil and pulpwood plantations and the use of illegal slash - and - burn practices by farmers

Here in the United States, farmers are pulling land out of the federal conservation program, threatening fragile habitats... Most troubling, though, is that the higher food prices caused in large part by food - to - fuel mandates create incentives for global deforestation, including in the Amazon basin.

He also knows that with increasingly common extreme weather causing droughts for Delaware farmers and driving violent storms toward its coasts, climate change is a real threat that must be addressed by innovating away from reliance on fossil fuels.

But manhandling these delicate beauties can cause a farmer, according to one interviewed by The Post, to lose 25 percent of his or her tomatoes to damage by customers.

Cash cropping farmers - those who grow grain to sell on the open market - are accustomed to dealing with reduced yields caused by an unsteady climate, for example; or from insect

Organic farmer, Zoe Bradbury, troubled by her inability to make a decision while shopping for eggs, chuckles and wonders if the «quiche sample in the last aisle has been laced with something» causing a sudden onset of indecisiveness.

Where was he when we were writing about thousands of Africans dying because of high food prices caused by US farmers growing corn with government subsidies to fuel American cars?

In another recent case our client, Kate, had been hit from behind by the driver of a truck who claimed that smoke from a farmer's field burning had been the cause of the collision.

As an example Leigh Day Solicitors is top ranked by the Chambers Directory which comments that the firm has been representing Colombian farmers against BP Subsidiary Exploration (Colombia) in relation to alleged environmental damage caused by an oil pipeline.