Sentences with phrase «early farmers cutting»

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

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An earlier price cut led to an $ 11.4 million funding package from the Victorian government and the industry and a $ 555 million low - interest federal loan scheme to help farmers adjust.

Though the seeds of the mission of Pike Place Market go back all the way to its inception — a place for consumers to buy their groceries directly from farmers, and cut out the price - gouging middlemen who were cheating both — the modern - day market was reborn in the late»60s and early»70s.

California's action to cut water deliveries to zero, from 5 percent earlier in the water season, is dramatic but will not significantly worsen what already is a serious crisis for farmers, said Mike Wade, executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, an education group that represents farmers, irrigation and water districts and associated agricultural businesses.

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.