Sentences with phrase «year old farmer»

It was very unpredictable, as sometimes we could sell and sometimes we could not,» said Nwang Yongtan, a 75 - year old farmer.

«The kernels this year are half their normal sizes,» said Feng Ling, a 55 - year old farmer in Xuchang, central Henan, where some growers have seen their production slashed by 40 percent from year ago.

Once he reaches Ethiopia he meets up with a 27 year old farmer named Dukale.

Not exact matches

While progressive farmers like Willemse have been dabbling in «precision ag» (also known as agri - tech) for nearly a decade, the past few years have seen scores of companies, old and new, blitz the sector.

We are already barely making ends meet,» says Daren Niemeyer, a 49 - year - old farmer in Nebraska who voted for Trump in 2016, when asked about his thoughts of the trade war tensions between China and the U.S..

For 58 - year - old Wanda Patsche, a hog and soybean farmer in Southern Minnesota, the daily uncertainty is troubling.

Farmers Business Network has also raised a significant amount of funding for a two - year - old company.

It's unacceptable,» adds the 90 - year - old farmer from San Cristóbal, on the western state of Táchira, bordering Colombia.

«It's not good for our small farmers, our small companies, when the big companies get to rewrite the laws,» said Annie, a 17 - year - old Berliner who came out to the demonstrations with her classmates.

My mama tells the story that when I was a gangly four - year - old kid, they hauled my kid brother and sister and I, down to a panhandle town named Hereford, Texas, for a handful of months, and my dad sharecropped cotton with this farmer west of town.

But then we thought about the 14 - year - old farmer's daughter who thought she was taking a job in a restaurant, was deceived by a corrupt system, and who was now held under the thumb of a pimp, forced to sleep with five or more older men a night in some seedy brothel.

When I was 5 years old, my neighbor told me that there was a farmer down the road who had some special animals in his field.

I was a 20 - year - old farmer's son and middle - of - the - road hippy, studying economics at University of Leeds.

The Nicaragua Hot - line from Witness for Peace dated February 1, 1990 contained the following headings: CONTRAS KIDNAP 56 WORKERS FROM PRIVATE COFFEE FARM IN JINOTEGA; CONTRAS KILL TWO FARMERS IN CHONTALES; CONTRAS KILL MAN AND 11 - YEAR - OLD BOY IN CHONTALES; CONTRAS KIDNAP FOUR NEAR LA CONCORDIA;

On top of that decline, we saw the average age of American farmers trending upward to 58 years old.

The most recent U.S. Department of Agriculture Census of Agriculture in 2012 reported the average age of the U.S. farmer is 57 and the share of farmers 65 years and older has increased from 14 percent in 1945 to 30 percent in 2007.

Each farmer takes great care and pride in their crops and consequently many trees are between 25 - 40 years old with some reaching up to 60 years old.

MASIPAG is a 29 - year old network of farmers, scientists and non-government organizations pushing for farmer - led sustainable agriculture and farmer empowerment.

«According to the 2012 Agriculture Census undertaken by the National Agricultural Statistics Service, the average age of the American farmer is approximately 59 years old,» said Sonny Ramaswamy, director of the UDSA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture.

California dairy farmers switching to almond crops, and even a 92 - year - old dairy plant that was forced to close due to a decline in sales recently reopened as a plant - based milk company.

While the mural is available for viewing 24 - 7, on Saturday mornings it is the backdrop for the popular California - certified, Old Town Temecula Farmers Market where local chefs and slow food enthusiasts shop for fresh, local seasonal fruits and vegetables (including avocados and citrus year - round), artisan foods, and fresh - baked goods.

It is made by families who are coconut farmers using old - fashioned traditional methods that have been used in the Philippines for hundreds of years.

I have known Bob for just over 6 years now, first as a customer at the Old Town Farmers» Market and the old Town & Country Farmers» Market (his first), then as a competitor and now as customer again... One thing was always crystal clear, this is an incredibly smart gentleman that cares about people, is passionate about growing high quality ORGANIC produce and truly wants to see organics on a level playing field with conventional produce and people of all walks of life given the opportunity to eat good clean foOld Town Farmers» Market and the old Town & Country Farmers» Market (his first), then as a competitor and now as customer again... One thing was always crystal clear, this is an incredibly smart gentleman that cares about people, is passionate about growing high quality ORGANIC produce and truly wants to see organics on a level playing field with conventional produce and people of all walks of life given the opportunity to eat good clean foold Town & Country Farmers» Market (his first), then as a competitor and now as customer again... One thing was always crystal clear, this is an incredibly smart gentleman that cares about people, is passionate about growing high quality ORGANIC produce and truly wants to see organics on a level playing field with conventional produce and people of all walks of life given the opportunity to eat good clean food.

Nothing better than loads of mozzarella and veggies on a pizza crust... Love that you've got a Farmers» Market that is 100 years old.

With Woods missing the cut at last year's Farmers, on top of his 2015 glutes - related withdrawal, T80 finish in 2014, and the overall question about how he'll perform in his latest return to competition, the Sportsbook expects to see the 42 - year - old superstar packing it up before Saturday.

Her pedigree is lost in time, but word of her presence has been handed down through generations of farmers at fortresslike Edington Mains, parts of which are said to be 500 years old.

Rahm, a 22 - year - old Spaniard who played at Arizona State, has a Farmers Insurance Open win and five top - 10 finishes in 10 events this year.

Our house stays quite cool - those farmers two hundred years ago knew just what they were doing when they positioned this old house in the way of the sun that it is.

Some of our choices when they were about four to six years old were the magical «Faraway Tree» series by Enid Blyton; the AA Milne books about Winnie - the - Pooh and other characters; the «Sophie» series by Dick King - Smith about a small but determined girl who wants to be a farmer; The American «Ramona» series by Beverly Cleary, featuring another small but determined girl.

Here is what I packed for my 4 year old for lunch today: Egg salad made with homemade mayo Fresh carrots and peppers Corn chips fried in coconut oil (bought at our local farmers market) Sauerkraut Kale Chips Need more lunch ideas and inspiration?

The voice in the audio which many have ascribed to be that of the 59 - year - old farmer interjected the journalist in his quest to get the Minister's response to the accusations being hailed on him.

The police have given the two children to Mr. Albert Kwabena Kumi, a 32 - year, old farmer at Etwereso, to cater for them until the case is disposed of.

A 75 - year - old farmer, Nurudeen Koleosho has been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command for allegedly raping an 11 - year - old Primary 2 pupil, simply identified as Bola,...

Mr. Edumadze, about 60 years old, was also a known farmer in the Ajumako area in the Central Region where he hails from.

A 50 - year - old farmer from Dormaa West in the Brong Ahafo Region, Philip Kweku Agyemang has been adjudged the 2017 national best farmer in Ghana.

A Koforidua Circuit Court has sentenced a 27 - year - old carpenter Akwasi Agyemang and a 37 - year - old farmer, Yaw Osei to four years in prison for mining illegally at Segyimase Kyebi in the Atewa Forest reserve in the Eastern Region.

The number of new farmers entering the field of agriculture has dropped by 20 percent, while the average farmer age has now risen above 58 - years - old.

A 55 - year - old farmer, James Ayambilla, has been murdered by persons believed to be criminals between Bankyim and Teberebie, in the Tarkwa Nsueam municipality of the Western Region.

The Wassa East District also observed the day at Atobiease with 43 year old Joseph Buabengn adjudged the best farmer among 50 other award winning farmers.

A 59 - year - old graduate farmer, Mathew Sung - aabu popularly known as Matco, who was the least talked about especially in the capital pulled a surprise when he marshaled 44 votes, beating his closest contender Alhaji Abdul - Nasir Mohammed Saani popularly known as Bunas by 5 to lead the NDC in the region.

Mr Ibrahim Musah, a 48 - year - old farmer from Dormaa in the Brong Ahafo Region, is the 2015 National Best Farmer.

A 41 - year - old farmer, Akwasi Agyeman has assaulted his wife, Akosua Brago, and subsequently committed suicide over fears of a reprisal attack at Sankore in the Asunafo South district of the Brong Ahafo Region.

John Hebior, a 76 - year - old retired farmer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, leads a pretty normal life.

Herbicide resistance could cost nearly $ 1 billion per year — and may force farmers to reexamine older practices that modern chemicals were supposed to replace.

Prompted by the extraordinary DNA identity, the scientists used information from decades - old botanical collections, knowledge of the seasonal movements of ancient hunter - gatherer - farmers and molecular DNA clock calculations to work out that the plants» seeds had almost certainly been transported by humans about 10,000 years ago.

An international consortium led by researchers from the University of Tübingen and Harvard Medical School analyzed ancient human genomes from a ~ 7,000 - year - old early farmer from the LBK culture from Stuttgart in Southern Germany, a ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherer from the Loschbour rock shelter in Luxembourg, and seven ~ 8,000 - year - old hunter - gatherers from Motala in Sweden.

Three farmers from a 6,000 - year - old site in Germany fell outside the general trend for that part of Neolithic Europe, displaying 40 to 50 percent hunter - gatherer ancestry.

A hunter - gatherer from the 6,000 - year - old German site, identified via chemical markers of diet in the bones, carried around 27 percent ancestry from farmers.

Yet Apterostigma megacephala — the oldest knownspecies of farmer ant with only the simplest agricultural techniques — has somehow switched to grow a kind of fungus that's been around for just 2 million to 8 million years, Schultz and his colleagues report in the May American Naturalist.

The lead driller, Dennis Duling, a 61 - year - old former farmer with a gray beard, sat in the control room, his calloused hand on a mouse, surveying sensor readings on a computer.