Sentences with phrase «of heifers»

And by stitching together funding and collaborations, the scientists have developed a promising vaccine and are now testing it in thousands of heifers.

USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates puts dairy prices lower heading into 2018, and yet the trend continues to keep ample supplies of heifers.

Kansas, Kentucky, and Mississippi stand out as having an exceptionally high number of heifers based on the number of milk cows in the state.

Figure 2 shows the ratio of heifers to cows for each state.

Mississippi and Kentucky have seen declining dairy numbers to the tune of 36 and 21 percent, respectively, while the number of heifers has declined over the last five years.

Higher numbers of heifers also provide the option for farmers to put beef across their older or lower performing cows, providing an additional income stream.

Vertooren, Judith (2006) The performance of heifers reared in a suckling system.

If you find a dead body and don't know the cause of death, then get all the elders together, cut off the head of a heifer, wash your hands over its body, and say our hands have not shed this blood.

13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that they are outwardly clean.

«The blood of goats and bulls» and «the ashes of a heifer» sprinkling the unclean, in words from the book of Hebrews in the New Testament, could not reconcile human existence to God; yet such reconciliation was being sought in those Jewish rites and their pagan parallels.

A key example would be concerning the «la ikrah fi al - din», the celebrated «let there be no compulsion in religion» contained in the Surah of the Heifer (2,256).

«For if the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the UNCLEAN, sanctifies for the PURIFYING of the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, CLEANSE your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?»

And the carry - over of such ideas into the priestly legislation, the natural custodian of concepts of, and dealings with, the occult, is well illustrated by such a ritual as that of the heifer whose neck was broken in an untilled valley where ran a perennial stream, every detail of which declares its magical character (Deut.

This could indicate areas where expansion will take place or it could be areas with high concentrations of heifer - raising facilities.

«Our farmers are innovative, always looking for ways to incorporate the latest technology that ultimately create real value to the consumer,» said Pierre Ferrari, chair of Heifer USA's advisory board.

Not exact matches

The principle was set forth that the elders of the city may, on such an occasion, wash their hands of responsibility for the death in the blood of a slain heifer.

For example, the red heifer which was to be used in ceremonies of cleansing was to be a beast upon which the yoke had never come (Num 19:2; Deut 21:3).

An example of appropriate human predation is the Heifer Project International — a nonprofit development organization that uses livestock projects to help poor people achieve self - sufficiency.

Several months ago a New Yorker article described the sensation among ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem caused by a Mississippi cattle breeder who noted an unblemished red heifer in his herd, read Numbers 19 and declared that the animal was a sign that the temple must be rebuilt in preparation for the millennial reign of Jesus — regardless of the escalation of mayhem such exegesis in action would heap upon Jews, Muslims and Christians in the Holy City.

I would like to take up this man's cause, wield a couple of cudgels on his behalf, and express my conviction as to how «just being a church» could provide the key to programs that work — that multiply and meet people's needs more comprehensively than seeds, heifers and agricultural innovation alone.

Another 185 heifers make up the rest of the Hansen herd, and will offer up their milk once they turn 2 years old.

The lucrative trade of exporting live dairy heifers to China continues to be on hold for some farmers despite authorities declaring northern Victoria free of bluetongue disease.

Cheryl Fields purchased steers and heifers for her family feedlot, Garvon at Avoca under the watchful eye of Michael Beaumont, Ballarat Meat Company.

However, the Sunflower State also has quite a few heifer - raising facilities that ship heifers out of state.

Figure 1 shows the number of replacement heifers by state on Jan. 1.

Grand Champion Female of the Cooyar Show was Sunnyside Park Bella heifer exhibited by Mark Leicht, Sunnyside Park Brahmans, Goombungee.

Grand Champion Prime Beast of Warwick Show was awarded to a Limousin heifer finished on grain at Risdon Park Feedlot.

Correspondingly the «unproductive» CH4 - emission of calves and heifers may be reduced.

Today there are about 800 Angus and South Devon steers and heifers grazing on almost every available blade of grass, led from pasture to pasture by a team of cowboys who round them up on horseback, not 4x4s.

Still I don't understand it, A Carrols goal was the equivalent of big toeing the ball from six to eight yards, I thought there was nothing extraordinary about it unless you consider that heifer scoring anything besides a header extraordinary.

This, it is recorded, was «UFO # 1» in U.S. annals of unidentified flying objects, and Captain Hamilton swore that there were six «strange» beings aboard and that they dropped a red lasso over the neck of a 3 - year - old heifer and floated away with the cow while the captain, his son and a tenant looked on helplessly.

Heifer is expanding the program to create more diverse markets for farmers and with the help of those farmers along with government agencies, and the school districts, Heifer's School Milk Feeding Program has been created to provide milk for children who lack proper daily nutrition.

Heifer International provides families in developing countries with livestock,... MORE poultry, and other items to improve their standard of living.

Heifer International — Even though Heifer was featured in last year's Purchase with a Purpose & the Importance of Purchasing Gifts that Give Back, I can't resist mentioning them again because they are an organization we support each and every year.

Five percent of all net profits from earring sales will benefit Global Green USA, Charity: Water and Heifer International.

The act stated that if any person or persons «shall wantonly and cruelly beat, abuse, or ill - treat any horse, mare, gelding, mule, ass, ox, cow, heifer, steer, sheep, or other cattle» they would be fined a sum «not exceeding five pounds, not less than ten shillings»; failure to pay the fine would result in a prison sentence of up to three months.

Both heifers and steers were fed out of a GrowSafe system, which precisely tracks intake to individual animals.

«And our results show that measures of dry matter intake and feed intake in heifers are relevant, no matter what they were fed.»

A devastating cattle disease endemic in California's foothill country causes pregnant heifers to lose their fetuses in the third trimester, killing an estimated 5 % to 10 % of the state's annual beef calf «crop» — a loss of 45,000 to 90,000 animals.

«The bottom line is that income significantly increases and diets improve when livestock is introduced to a community in the context of a well - developed support system, like the one Heifer establishes.

Three of the communities receive livestock from Heifer International and two other communities for comparison are eligible, but have not yet received animals.

«According to our rough calculations, taking into account the wholesale value of milk, the number of two - year - old heifers added to U.S. dairy herds annually, the production advantage across the first two lactations of conceiving a daughter on the first pregnancy, and the increased probability of conceiving a daughter from sex - selected semen, suggests a gross value in the neighborhood of $ 200 million in milk production across the first two lactations alone,» the team reported.

Heifer teaches them to care for the animals in an ecologically friendly way and helps lift them up out of poverty.

I still can't get away with it - I have heifers instead of calves.

After a unit on human rights and the United Nations, a group of students came to school on a Monday exclaiming that they had raised enough money from a bake sale they held on the sidewalk that weekend to purchase a few animals for families in need through Heifer International.

From tending livestock (hence the organization's name) to planting and nurturing organic gardens to learning about sustainability through firsthand experience, Heifer helpers discover practical ways to combat the causes of poverty.

Internationally, one of the best - known frameworks for evaluating professional development has been Fitzpatrick's model, developed in 1959 to evaluate training for Heifer International.

In my social studies classroom, I have implemented games with social themes, including Ayiti: The Cost of Life, a role - playing game set in Haiti, and the poverty simulation games Heifer Village and 3rd World Farmer.

Benefits of Community Service Learning Types of Community Service Learning Projects Steps in Doing a Community Service Learning Project Questions and Concerns Five Projects In - Depth The Dog Poop Project The Bus Bully Project Wetlands as Classroom and Service Opportunity Biographies of Nursing Home Residents Trick - or - Treating for UNICEF Thirteen Projects At - A-Glance Quilt Project Heifer Project Visits to an Alzheimer's Unit Vegetable Garden Water Testing Coral Transplant Project Books on Tape Bias in Literature Salmon Restoration Student - Run Business Multi-Site Community Service Learning Voter Registration and Awareness Drive Hunger Awareness Conclusion Community Service Learning Resources Northeast Foundation for Children, 2002, 129 pages, paper ISBN: 1 -892989-07-7

The steering wheel you're turning is a stitched up, leather - clad unit, part of a cabin that many heifers gave up their hides to swathe.