Sentences with phrase «sheep grazing»

From left to right: Uroš tending to a newborn lamb; the Lafarge plant seen from behind Uroš» home; sheep grazing on the farm; greeting Florjan the donkey.

Transfield say that «the land on which the Ben More Wind Farm would be developed is privately - owned farmland used primarily for sheep grazing.

Loss due to logging, then fire, then sheep grazing in the late 1800s til the sheep started to starve (grin), then lying fallow til trees recovered, then logging, then fire.

The subjects alternate between scenes of sheep grazing in the countryside, views of Reykjavik, and small seaside villages.

Day Five Monday — Returning to Broken Hill we head out into isolated sheep grazing areas reaching the remote East Whydown Station for lunch, here we enjoy a look around the woolshed.

Outside, there is a patio garden up a few steps equipped with table and chairs to dine al fresco or to relax with a glass of something whilst contemplating the sheep grazing in the fields opposite.

Where sheep grazing was prevalent, the native plant cover has been damaged, and erosion and gullying has been a problem in some areas.

Each of the five park islands supported sheep grazing during the early 20th century.

The island's stands of giant coreopsis, as well as all the other plants of its coastal bluff community, were devastated by sheep grazing in the late 1800s and early 1900s, rabbit browsing in 1910 - 1950s, and by large - scale destruction of native vegetation associated with facility and road development by the U.S. Coast Guard during construction and manning of the Anacapa Light Station.

Quiet, private, comfortable accommodation in a recently renovated 2 bedroom self - contained cottage set on a 3000 acre sheep grazing property.

Timber and Dairy farming are our predominant industries along with cattle and sheep grazing.

One involved disturbing a flock of sheep grazing peacefully in a field enclosed by a dry stone wall in Wales.

In the semi-arid lands of South Australia there lie the substantial ruins of the once very prosperous homestead of a sheep grazing property of Kanyaka.

Primarily because of diseases introduced by exotic, domestic sheep grazing in their habitat, Sierra Nevada bighorns experienced a series of dramatic declines in the latter half of the 20th century.

Caesium - 137 has a half - life of 30 years and, he says, if no action is taken, government controls on sheep grazing the affected areas will have to stay «for the foreseeable future».

It's also possible that sheep grazing near the shoreline and the likely introduction of grass - eating rabbits around this time might have destabilized nearby sand dunes, which relied on the grasses to anchor them.

In late 2015, before values really started to move, former Woolworths chief executive Paul Simons snapped up a sprawling sheep grazing property east of Young, NSW, for $ 6.5 million and said he thought the capital value for Australian agricultural land would rise.

In the days that followed, I read the Bible and sang as the sheep grazed.

Much of the time of a shepherd is spent just watching sheep graze.

The traveler also learns about how sheep graze on vineyard weeds and owls prey on vineyard pests.

No pesticides or fertilizers are used on the fields where the sheep graze, and no chemicals are used to wash the wool.

«Wild sheep grazed in the Black Desert 14,500 years ago.»

As a result of the eradication of the wolves, rats become a plague and wild sheep graze until the meadows turn to dust.

By the 1860s thousands of sheep grazed freely on the island.

The Civil War significantly increased the demand for wool and by 1864 some 24,000 sheep grazed the hills and valleys of Santa Cruz Island.

Thier cattle and sheep grazed in pastures at least 10 km inland.

A huge fan of merino wool, which is mostly sourced from New Zealand, Australia and South America, Ibex will be switching their Shak Lite collection to wool from the Rambouillet sheep grazed by the Lehfeldt family of Lavina, Montana.

Speaking of herding sheep, you might like to have a go at a BBC game that tests your reaction time in what I can only say is a very odd way: various (cartoon) sheep graze peacefully at the left of the browser window until suddenly one of them makes a break for greener pastures; your job is to click a button that shoots a tranquilizer dart at the renegade; at the end of your efforts, you're told what your reaction time is.

Not exact matches

The siblings and their cousin, Lucia, reported that on March 13 1917 the Virgin Mary appeared to them while they grazed their sheep.

That sheep were grazing gives us the only clue we have for the actual season of the birth.

Rangelands provided about a quarter of Australia's grazing country for sheep.

By Renee Ciulla Green rolls of open hills dotted with lines of solid, red silos and white grazing sheep appeal to and please even those who aren't passionate about farming themselves.

They also protect the plant from grazing by cattle, sheep, goats, and deer.

The beef, prime lamb and sheep data collected through ABARE's annual agricultural grazing industries survey (partly funded by MLA) is available as an online database, with the key findings presented in a comprehensive report.

The Profitable Grazing Systems model and content has been extensively piloted with 130 goat, sheep and cattle producers across Australia managing over 1.5 million hectares working with 10 coaches.

Another part of the overall portfolio which may draw interest is Retreat Station, a 142,601 hectare sheep and cattle grazing operation near the Channel Country in south - west Queensland.

The Ashton family have sold Markdale, their 2551 - hectare sheep and beef grazing property in the the Southern Tablelands region of NSW.

One of SA's prized sheep and cattle grazing stations, Mount Schanck, has been listed for sale for the first time in its near - 200 year history.

Grazing along coastal sand dunes, grassy plains and high ridges, Niihau sheep roam in a relatively untouched environment.

Many sheepmen who use the national forest for grazing go in with sacks and sacks of strychnine pellets, some in peanut butter, some in honey, and throw»em around like seed, and they kill everything in the area before they bring their sheep in.»

I went out onto our deck where the birds and butterflies were flittering around and the sheep and horses were grazing.

Chiminage was the right to use roads without paying tolls; herbage, the right to put cattle or sheep to graze; pannage, the right to put pigs in the forests for mast.

He turned to holistic management of livestock like cattle and sheep, overriding his own belief that grazing animals had been part of the problem when it came to green, fertile lands widely becoming barren and dry.

Eating meat from animals grazed on land treated with commonly - used agricultural fertilizers might have serious implications for pregnant women and the future reproductive health of their unborn children, according to a new study involving sheep.

Just imagine a band of savages, exhausted from searching for nuts or chasing wild animals, suddenly grazing for the first time at a fruit - laden orchard or a pasture full of sheep.

Sheep instinctively avoid grazing on grass near their own manure, advantageous because many sheep parasites release their eggs in the animals» droppings.

While visiting a ranch in South Africa, it came together for him: He noticed a corner of a paddock where a large number of sheep had grazed for a short while.

But Prigg says that pyrethroids are so toxic that «if dipped sheep drip while grazing near streams, that can provide the few nanograms of pesticide per litre of water required to kill freshwater shrimps».

In addition, by using a mathematical model to reproduce the interactions between sheep and their effect on spontaneous behavior, scientists have shown that the intensity of mimicry plays a critical role in the ability of a herd to maximize the area foraged for grazing while minimizing the time needed to regroup.

An analysis of the collective movements of grazing sheep has revealed that sheep alternate slow dispersion phases with very fast regrouping, in which they imitate the behavior of their neighbors.