But it was a fact that the coalition administration in Cardiff did not have funds for the sort of economic support packages offered to English and Scottish farmers, she added. But Ms Jones urged upland farmers to think how they could reduce their heavy dependence on light lamb exports, a situation encouraged by historical headage payments. Ms Jones said she and her civil servants were very aware that they were still drawing their full salaries while farmers had seen their incomes cut due...

The difference between a record crop and a near-record crop can be small, and mid-October rain in Northern California apparently thwarted record production of processing tomatoes. Because rangelands have dried out so completely in California this year, cattle ranchers have not been able to provide enough forage for their animals. He said California farmers will work to make sure he's familiar with issues particularly important to family farmers and ranchers here, such as pest prevention,...

To make things worse, PPCS cannot simply import raw materials from overseas - as firms in many other industrial sectors could do - to ensure its plants run to budget. Manufacturing operations cannot be successfully planned without visibility and foremost among this is demand for finished goods and supply of raw materials. Chief executive Keith Cooper says one half of farmers think their interest finishes when animals are loaded on to trucks and the other half when products are sold to...

LABOR has warned Australia's live export industry that unless animal welfare concerns are addressed, growing public protests could lead to a forced shutdown. But Senator O'Brien said it was a warning that the industry needs to clean up overseas slaughter arrangements before public support for live exports disappears. Mr McGauran criticised Labor for caving in to organised letter-writing campaigns from extremist groups instead of educating the general public about the high standards that...

He does this not to promote homosexuality but to find out whether the mechanism he's testingdeprivation of estrogen during fetal developmentaccounts for homosexuality. The sheep research is a collaboration between a behavioral neuroendocrinologist (Roselli) and an animal scientist (Stormshak) You can't infer Roselli's motives, nor you can you predict the motives of people who might exploit, in a later technological program, the mechanisms he's clarifying. These applications to sheep and...