Sentences with phrase «says early farmers»

A study released in February says early farmers and cooks were spiking their food with chilies about 6,000 years ago: «Probably the earliest spice plant found thus far in the Americas,» says Linda Perry, an archaeobiologist working with the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «It would have made a diet of roots, tubers, and corn taste a little better.»

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A female farmer turned pest - repellent entrepreneur credits one big early decision that helped grow sales to millions: saying no to Wal - Mart.

WELLINGTON — Milk collection across New Zealand was slightly lower in the 11 months to April 30 as farmers struggled to weather a severe drought early this year, New Zealand dairy company Fonterra Co-Operative Group Ltd. (FCG.NZ) said Wednesday.

Richard Hampton, managing director at OMSCo, said; «We initiated projects to boost iodine levels and applied these to our farmer members» enterprises, and by early 2015 we announced that we'd achieved comparable levels with those in the conventional market.

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.

«We will take these options out to our farmers at the end of March and early April to see what the appetite is,» Mr Watt said.

Napa Valley wine grape growers say extended drought will yield smaller 2014 crop With California in the grips of severe drought, Napa Valley wine grape growers on Tuesday said some vines are ripening early and that farmers are planning fewer crops to save water...

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.

The group said that an earlier agreement involving processors to raise retail milk prices by two pence per litre had failed to benefit farmers.

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.

Earlier this week, the National Farmers Federation pulled out of negotiations, saying its members had lost faith that the parties could agree on a code of conduct with enough power to protect fFarmers Federation pulled out of negotiations, saying its members had lost faith that the parties could agree on a code of conduct with enough power to protect farmersfarmers.

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.

The deciding factor was the farmers» market, which permanently moved to the Ferry Building Plaza in early 2003, Connors says.

He was swinging with some speed compared to what I saw at Farmers where you could tell he just wasn't feeling that great; he wasn't swinging very good and he wasn't swinging with any kind of speed,» DJ said earlier this week at the Genesis media day.

They're against farmers too,» added a frustrated Rep. Bill FloresWilliam (Bill) Hose FloresGOP revolts multiply against retiring Ryan Republicans express doubts that Ryan can stay on as Speaker McCarthy says early leadership election to replace Ryan unlikely MORE (R - Texas), the former chairman of the other conservative caucus, the Republican Study Committee.

These measures, she said, include the deployment of pheromone trap catches in various locations across the country to ascertain the levels of infestation, training of MoFA staff and farmers on scouting, early detection and sustainable management of the pest in the event of an outbreak.

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.

More data could reveal surprises, but the team makes a good case that Beaker folk replaced the region's early farmers, he says.

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.

He says this suggests a new scenario: The ancestors of early European farmers such as Ötzi must have carried H. pylori with DNA from Asian strains perhaps in the Middle East before they migrated to Europe.

An end goal, he says, is to predict early in the season how weeds will impede crop yields, so farmers can make better decisions on how to manage them.

The findings support previous studies of other early farmer and hunter - gatherer populations in Germany and elsewhere, says Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany.

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.

The best way to test this, says Stoneking, would be to get ancient DNA from the earliest farmers in the region.

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

Right now scientists can study the DNA evidence on a large scale and say that the two groups of early farmers weren't related.

Davidson often talked about his early life as a farmer, but Fisch said his ability to chart a clear course as an administrator, a researcher, a professor, and a mentor, reminded him of a sailor.

Says Elettra, «This pasta is a great way to make use of the late spring, early summer bounty you can find at your farmers market.

Jasema farmers» group chairman Sugiyono said early logging caused financial losses to farmers.

After Bill Clinton preempted the talk by saying he regretted not providing funding to small farmers around the world during his presidency — he'd also mentioned this was a huge mistake in the blogger's round table I attended earlier this week — Hillary went in depth on how Obama plans to help small farmers produce and sell food in the world's poorest nations.