Sentences with phrase «hundreds of farmers»

A Robert Wiseman plant near Bridgwater, Somerset was blockaded by hundreds of farmers and their tractors, while hundreds more protested outside Arla plants in Leeds and Ashby de la Zouch in Leicestershire.

He earned a reputation for innovative teaching with a practical edge and helped hundreds of farmers and ranchers develop and implement strategies to increase profit.

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.

The two graduate students also maintain the project's Web site, give presentations to hundreds of farmers at a time at field days sponsored by DuPont, and answer calls from rapeseed growers concerned about funny blotches on their crops.

Hundreds of farmers still work under post-Chernobyl regulations imposed in 1986.

The team found that the Lone Star virus, which is carried by the Lone Star tick, Amblyomma americanum, is related to a group of human pathogens including Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome Virus, which infected hundreds of farmers in China between 2008 and 2010; Bhanja virus, initially found in India; Palma virus, found in Portugal; and Heartland virus, an illness recently reported among farmers in Missouri.

Because Chinese bamboo is generally farmed in small parcels, certification means manufacturers or importers must hire extra staff to coordinate the activities of hundreds of farmers.

At a November 1981 meeting attended by several hundred of these farmers, they learned they could raise and sell puppies with little or no overhead and make a fortune.

Back in North America, a drought that began in late 2010 and worsened over 2011 led hundreds of farmers from northern Mexico to march to that nation's capital in January 2012 to draw the government's attention to their suffering.

And last spring's drought, when hundreds of farmers abandoned livestock they could no longer manage to feed or water, was the worst since 1921.

Today, a protest campaign in front of Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) was held by hundreds of farmers and civil society supporters led by the National Women Farmers and Workers Association (NWFA) and Bangladesh Agricultural Farm Labour Federation (BAFLF).

Hundreds of farmers in the Asante Akyem North District of the Ashanti Region say they have lost interest in agriculture...

To commemorate the historic uprooting and protest action against golden rice last August 8, 2013, hundreds of farmers will gather to hold a public forum in Nueva Ecija in Central Luzon, the rice granary of the country where Philippine Rice Research Insitute (PhilRICE) Golden Rice experimental fields are located.

It also commemorates the tremendous contribution to development in the south made by the Toledo Cacao Growers» Association (TCGA) and its hundreds of farmer members.