September 3, 2010

20:28

Otago Daily Times

Glider centres float sister-city links
Otago Daily Times
"Both towns support extensive farming operations including sheep, cattle, dairying, bio-fuel and extensive areas under irrigation," Mr Wills said. ...

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20:28

Nevada town finds Omarama quite familiar
Timaru Herald
Both have extensive farming operations including sheep, cattle, dairying, bio-fuel and both have extensive areas under irrigation. ...

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20:28

Herding cattle along the public highway
Lexology (registration)
Herding cattle along the public highway may be a regular part of your farming day or may only happen on an ad hoc basis ...

20:28

Top 10 factors limiting profitability shared
Ag Weekly
“I would rather have cattle standing in line to drink than not drinking because the water's dirty,” he said. Poor reproduction stands fourth on the list. ...

20:28

A microcosm of skewed distribution policies
Mmegi Online
Other than the smattering of cattle chewing cud, it is drab. Even if they had the right of veto, the poor animals would probably abstain because whichever ...

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18:04

Tropical forests slashed for farmland
R & D Magazine
In Brazil, where a pattern had developed of expanding soy production by direct forest clearing and by pushing cattle ranching off pastureland and into ...

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18:04

What is the best video game ending ever? My vote: 'Red Dead Redemption'
Entertainment Weekly
You teach your son how to hunt and skin animals; you catch wild horses, and take your cattle out to graze in the field; you bicker with the wife. ...

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18:04

Finding Common Ground to Improve Livelihoods and Conserve Wildlife
Firedoglake (blog)
Livestock farming is, of course, an important traditional way for communities in sub-Saharan Africa to build and maintain wealth, not to mention attain food ...

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18:04

US cattle genetics firm to help Punjab dairying
Sify
A leading US-based cattle genetics marketing organisation Friday announced it will be working closely with Punjab farmers to promote dairy farming and help ...

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18:04

New Era

African fisheries must deal with threats, opportunities
New Era
WINDHOEK – Traditional cattle farming areas such as the Omaheke Region, also known as the Cattle Country, have ventured into crop farming. ...

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18:04

Ohio dairy farmers tell senator they need transparency, predictability
Farm and Dairy
Tom Noyes, a retired OSU Extension worker who still milks a herd of Jersey cattle, said “every producer in this country needs to vote” when a policy is ...

18:04

TopNews

US cattle genetics firm to help Punjab dairying
TopNews
... US-based cattle genetics marketing organisation Friday announced it will be working closely with Punjab farmers to promote dairy farming and help the ...

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18:04

Meth and Myth in the Ozarks
CounterPunch
These are items that he purchased by taking advantage of the new economy – one that is driven by drug production rather than cattle farming. ...

18:04

:: 'The best there's ever been'
RodeoAttitude
“My dad, he never liked it,” Dillon explained, “and I decided one day it was time for me to quit doing that and go on with my farming, with the business, ...

18:04

Selling 'all things local' goal of young Sask. farmers
Western Producer (subscription)
But they would have had to boost their cattle numbers to about 1000 from 200 for that to happen. Then they heard about small plot intensive farming, ...

15:27

Federal Aid For Drought-Blighted California-Oregon Border
CattleNetwork.com
"There's no doubt it's a disaster here," said Gary Derry, 50, of Malin, Ore., who says 20 percent of his alfalfa farming operation has gone dry. ...

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PhysOrg.com

Most new farmland comes from cutting tropical forest: researcher
PhysOrg.com
In Brazil, where a pattern had developed of expanding soy production by direct forest clearing and by pushing cattle ranching off pastureland and into ...

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15:27

COLUMN: At 100, you've come a long way, Walton
Walton Sun
Settlers established grape vineyards, egg farms, pig and cattle farms (not ranches), sugar cane fields, timber cutting and turpentine stills, ...

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15:27

Alberta producer warns farmers to steer clear from bull ears
Meadow Lake Progress
"We still have our farm, we haven't changed anything yet," he said. Murphy Livestock runs 240 purebred, Charolais, and Red and Black Angus, ...

15:27

Punjab provides subsidy for construction of modern cattle shed
Punjab Newsline
The Minister further said that a majority of the farmers of the state were not depending on agriculture olone but also adopting dairy farming day by day on ...