Sentences with phrase «for early farmers»

Wild cats proved to be effective rodent control for early farmers.

Not exact matches

An earlier prediction of a moderate La Nina, which is associated with higher rainfall, for the spring / summer season between September and February, had eased farmers» drought fears.

The federation introduced its system in the early 2000s to limit excess production, with the goal of smoothing out annual variations in the syrup harvest, thus stabilizing the price for the province's 13,500 sap farmers.

Peat has created an app for farmers, Plantix, that allows a phone camera to detect the patterns at early stages, and then sends instructions about specific treatments.

(Statistics Canada data shows that, in January, Canadian farmers were receiving 9.3 % more for their products than they had a year earlier.)

Speaking with DairyReporter.com earlier this week, Farmers for Action (FFA) chairman, David Handley, branded Tesco's decision to re-price its four pint bottles at # 1 «irresponsible» and warned that «a price war is about to kick off.»

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.

The course will be offered through eXtension's Moodle campus in early 2013 for farmers, Extension educators, and agriculture service providers.

From the early days — introducing their unique nut milks at local farmers markets to families thirsty for a healthier alternative to dairy — to guiding their explosive growth at groceries across the country today, Justin is committed to MALK's mission and its success.

He said crops across the state's main growing regions looked «remarkably good» but farmers were looking for good follow up rains in early to mid-October.

Dairy processor Fonterra will lift the prices it pays hundreds of farmers for their milk, after an outcry over the sudden drop in payments it announced earlier this month.

National Farmers Federation president Jock Laurie said it was too early to determine the impact because it depended how long the heat wave would continue for.

Earlier this year, the group claimed it had negotiated a deal with Tesco, Britain's leading supermarket, to ensure farmers got more money for their milk.

While the milk payment in Australia is slightly different, the Fonterra Australia division is working on a similar guaranteed milk price for farmers to lock in a payment early.

Analysts said the early dividend payment would provide small savings for farmers in interest costs but that many had expected higher dividends or a more robust relief package.

Following a price crisis for world dairy farmers earlier in the decade, global prices for milk and other dairy products look set to grow strongly during 2017.

Earlier this year (March 2017) we reported how the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture issued «cease and desist» orders to a few small - scale Amish egg farmers in Wisconsin who have been shipping soy - free cage - free eggs to customers across the U.S. for over 7 years.

However, earlier this year, agricultural Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel said that after consideration, Private Storage aid may be temporarily bought back for farmers when markets were found to be in turmoil.

Robert Wiseman Dairies announced earlier this week that it is to provisionally slash the amount it pays for UK dairy farmers» milk, a move which will undoubtedly lead to further price skirmishes in the UK milk market, as Tom...

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.

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.

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.

Partly because I was pressed for time and in a rush to photograph them (and had to use the super harsh, early morning light), but mostly because there's been a disproportionate amount of brown - colored food in this space (these, those, and this)(and now you're looking at more) and it's summer and the farmers market is bursting with vibrant produce and I'm just over here whipping up shit with peanut butter and chocolate.

Earlier this year Murray Goulburn, a dairy co-operative which supplies milk across Australia, retrospectively slashed how much it paid farmers for their milk, leaving many to pay back the difference to the company.

But recently, while shopping at the farmers» market for some veg to grill for a barbecue, I saw them: pink, gold, and red, plucked out of the ground early that morning and topped with bright bouquets of greens.

Regardless of whether you believe the groundhog's prediction of an early spring, your local farmers are gearing up for spring plantings.

Dr. Omane Boamah hinted that Cocobod is distributing 110million high yielding and early maturing cocoa seedlings to farmers for free and also taking care of aging cocoa trees.

He snapped these small baskets in Abuja selling for 5,000 naira this week (R) BBC journalist and tomato farmer Nasidi Adamu Yahaya explains: The pest is actually a moth called the Tomato Leaf Miner, or Tuta Absoluta and it first appeared in early March.

Earlier this week Prince Charles said the «tragedy» in flood - hit Somerset «is that nothing happened for so long» to help as he met local residents, farmers and emergency services personnel who have been affected.

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?

The cheese strainer represents both a technological and cultural milestone for early Neolithic farmers, Evershed said.

«We can predict the beginning of the Indian monsoon two weeks earlier, and the end of it even six weeks earlier than before — which is quite a breakthrough, given that for the farmers every day counts,» says Veronika Stolbova from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and the University of Zurich, the lead - author of the study to be published in the Geophysical Research Letters.

In early 2011, the local Solukhumbu Development Society (SDS) and the Dzi Foundation organized four whole - day training sessions for almost 150 farmers, informing them on the proper application and benefits of urine.

For years, the favored recipe for making a modern European was this: Start with DNA from a hunter - gatherer whose ancestors lived in Europe 45,000 years ago, then add genes from an early farmer who migrated to the continent about 9000 years aFor years, the favored recipe for making a modern European was this: Start with DNA from a hunter - gatherer whose ancestors lived in Europe 45,000 years ago, then add genes from an early farmer who migrated to the continent about 9000 years afor making a modern European was this: Start with DNA from a hunter - gatherer whose ancestors lived in Europe 45,000 years ago, then add genes from an early farmer who migrated to the continent about 9000 years ago.

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

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.

«It seems clear now that the third group linking Europeans and Native Americans arrives in Central Europe after the early farmers,» explains Johannes Krause from the University of Tübingen and director of the Max Planck Institute for History and Sciences in Jena, Germany.

For rice, barley, and wheat, early farmers got the stems that turn into flowers to branch more, so ultimately more grains were produced per stalk.

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.

«Zoning of protected areas and forest conservation on private land, combined with subsidising farmers to increase yields on degraded pastures rather than create new ones, has seen deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon decline steeply since 2004 — although it's too early to say if this success will be sustained,» said co-author Dr Bernardo Strassburg of Brazil's International Institute for Sustainability.

«If we have a success today, it won't appear in farmers» fields for 15 years at the very earliest,» he said.

Out for an early evening meeting in a café, Renae Evensvold and Kristin Mesker are ranchers and farmers north of Tioga.

For a long time scientists and clinicians thought the main advantage in Europe was to enable early farmers to avoid the consequences of calcium deficiency; milk is an amazing source of calcium and there is a bit of vitamin D in there too (vitamin D is necessary for calcium absorptioFor a long time scientists and clinicians thought the main advantage in Europe was to enable early farmers to avoid the consequences of calcium deficiency; milk is an amazing source of calcium and there is a bit of vitamin D in there too (vitamin D is necessary for calcium absorptiofor calcium absorption).

For the daughter of a 17th century farmer, a mutation causing a weakened immune system or a malfunctioning heart might have been an early death sentence — or at least prevented her from having her own children.

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.

He added that for typical Midwest springs, tilled crop rows would be warmer and a bit dryer earlier so farmers can get in and plant.

Now, a study in PNAS journal suggests they descend from early farmers who mixed with local hunters before becoming isolated for millennia.

In early summer, some farmers cultivate cowpea, but many leave their lands fallow for at least 2 to 3 months.