Sentences with phrase «of head of cattle»

Agricultural areas like St. George were hardest hit by the relentless rains and overflowing rivers that swamped roads, cut off power lines, washed away vineyards and fruit orchards, drowned thousands of head of cattle and other livestock, and covered homes and everything inside them in thick layers of sediment and mud.

Montana rancher Fred Wacker had thousands of head of cattle fattening up along the Yellowstone River for export to China when President Donald Trump picked a trade fight with the Asian nation.

For example, the rumour is very rife that Senator David Mark, an Idoma from Benue State, owns several hundreds of heads of cattle.

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Zhang and his wife have now returned to their home village and are back on the family farm with their children and parents, raising 200 head of cattle.

Up to 1,200 head of cattle may be kept on the land.

As farmers sold off their stockpiles of grain and cotton, they also brought their livestock to market en masse, he says, leaving the lowest head count of cattle in the U.S. since 1950.

New York, who is a leading breeder of White Leghorns, and Max D. Cohen, who runs 2,000 to 2,500 head of cattle on 3,600 acres in Idaho.

In 1950 Panama had about 570,000 head of cattle and approximately 550,000 hectares of pasturage; by 1970 the number of cattle had risen to 1.2 million head and the pasturage to 1.1 million hectares (Heckadon Moreno 1984b, 18).

«We probably process up to 300 to 350 head a week of cattle, of which two - thirds are certified for the U.S. National Organic Program (NOP) and the rest are destined for Asian markets and our Australian domestic market,» Ferguson estimates.

The Harris Ranch Beef Company houses between 100,000 and 110,000 cattle during the more than 120 day finishing process at their feedlot and processes up to 1,000 heads of stock each day.

Rocky Mountain Natural Meats also distributes bison products to Europe, and additionally processes approximately 300 head of beef cattle per week on a custom basis.

The head of listed property at BT Investment Management, Peter Davidson, is investing in Australia's largest listed landowner, the Australian Agricultural Company, and says other industry funds should probably consider the long - term prospects of the cattle station owner.

At its peak, Chilgala covered 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) and carried 1,800 head of cattle.

With the national herd currently at a 20 - year low of around 26 million head, most industry figures doubt Chinese meat processors will be able to secure 1 million head of cattle from Australia for many years.

The high - quality portfolio includes the Tartrus and Glenprairie aggregations, totalling more than 61,000 hectares and carrying 12,000 head of organic cattle.

But we have only 26 million of the 970 million cattle head in the world, or less than 3 per cent.

«Eight years ago when we opened our doors, we started with 66 head of cattle a fortnight.

Meat & Livestock Australia said in its first quarter review of trading that national cattle yardings at its reported saleyards were 19pc higher year - on - year, at close to 682,000 head.

They are: Grassdale, at Dalby in southern Queensland, covering 5620 hectares with a licensed feedlot capacity of 54,000 head of cattle; Pinegrove, at Millmerran, also in southern Queensland, covering 2200 hectares with a licensed feedlot capacity of 25,000 head of cattle; and Gunnee, at Delungra, in NSW, covering 1607 hectares and with a licensed feedlot capacity of 10,000 head.

The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences said live cattle exports would fall 22 per cent to 450,000 head this year, after Indonesia slashed its intake.

That trade became possible following a bilateral November 2014 agreement under which Beijing removed a 5 per cent tariff on live cattle said up to 1 million head of cattle could be shipped each year.

«The vast majority of these massive, industrial - scale facilities, some managing 10,000 - 20,000 head of cattle, and upwards of 1 million laying hens, had 100 % of their animals confined in giant buildings or feedlots.»

Ben Thomas, the manager of market information at Meat and Live Stock Australia, said the proportion of cattle exported live could grow to around 20 per cent over the next decade if China reaches its goal of securing 1 million head a year.

Then in 2013 when the live export cattle trade had been smashed and the drought and prices were squeezing the cattle industry, Mr Mitchell shelled out $ 4.3 million for another massive cattle station — the 177,100 ha Margaret River Station with 6000 head of cattle.

Arcadian has grown from being one farm processing 66 head of cattle a fortnight in...

Arcadian has grown from being one farm processing 66 head of cattle a fortnight in 2005, to having more than 120 certified organic suppliers in 2014.

The US is the world's biggest cattle importer according to the US Department of Agriculture, with imports of almost 2 million head in 2015, though its imports are mostly trucked across from Mexico and Canada.

The move by the Canadian backed local cattle company, which now manages 85,000 head of livestock across 600,000 hectares, comes at a time when major transactions have been taking place with billionaire Gina Rinehart, Andrew Forrest and Brett Blundy all having bought into the rural land and cattle markets.

There were 618,323 head of cattle shipped from Australia to Indonesia in 2015, according to the MLA, making it the largest seaborne trade.

He joined forces with Peter and in 2005 Arcadian Organic & Natural Meat Co selected a modest 66 head of cattle for processing from a certified organic farm in central Queensland.

Peter formed a company and processed four head of their cattle at the Pittsworth abattoir (after getting it certified organic as well), and proceeded to sell the meat.

The company has 155,000 head of branded cattle, which is about 14 per cent below S Kidman & Co's long - term average carrying levels.

The mining magnate's Hancock Prospecting acquired the 147,510 hectare property with 15,000 head of cattle from well known beef producers, John and Kate McLoughlin.

A lower number of cattle on feed is expected after the highs seen in 2017, where there were three consecutive quarters with over one million head on feed.

In it was a government veterinarian headed down - country to inoculate a herd of Masai cattle.

On his 2,000 acres there he has 250 head of registered Beefmaster cattle, a breed part Brahman, part Hereford, part shorthorn that originated in Texas some 50 years ago.

«What kind of rat would leave John Wayne all alone with 1,500 head of cattle?»

His parents own about 125 acres and have 100 head of cattle.

Multiply that by the 34 million head of cattle slaughtered each year for food.

The driver of the Metro Mass bus vehicle is believed to have lost control after hitting cattle on the road and collided head - on with the truck.

Florida ranked 10th nationwide in beef cow inventory as of Jan. 1, 2016 with 915,000 head of cattle, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service.

«In addition, they have been meeting with heads of the local vigilantes within the 10 Local Government Areas in the State where cattle rustling and armed banditry seems prevalent in order to synergize efforts.»

«In Nasarawa State, the Service in collaboration with the local vigilante arrested one 50 year old Dahiru Umaru Iro for his support and patronage of a notorious cattle rustling and kidnap gang headed by Yusuf Mohammed Sani in the State.

Buhari was certainly not telling the truth when he submitted that for 12 or so years his 150 heads of cattle did not increase by if only one!

«There's a big question around whether those are truly wild free ranging herds, or whether there is so much management that's happening around them that they are no longer really wild; they're just like ranched cattle,» says Craig Hilton - Taylor, head of the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List Unit in Cambridge, UK.

Basic economics also worry him; he knows that he may well have to pay more later to buy replacement calves if the price per head of cattle rises from today's rock - bottom lows.

Its efficiency is more than two miles per head of cattle.

August 8, 2012 — A kill order was issued by the Fish and Wildlife Service to its sister agency, U.S.D.A. Wildlife Services, to shoot the alpha female of the Fox Mountain Pack of Mexican gray wolves due to the seven - member pack preying on four head of cattle over several months.

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Paran is not only the head of the provincial government, but also an important river port for the transshipment of cereals, cattle, fish, and lumber from the surrounding region.