Sentence examples for farming term from inspiring English sources

In Uganda the government has sponsored campaigns mixing messages of fear with advocacy of spousal faithfulness, or "zero grazing," a farming term familiar to Ugandans.

Dave, who's 67 and fit as a fiddle, even though he doesn't play one, was on his hands and knees, holding a little plastic doohickey (a farming term meaning "doohickey") that contained carrot seeds.

According to the USDA, an unnamed Oregon farmer noticed some volunteer wheat plants ("volunteer" is the farming term for a crop seed from previous years, which germinates and grows in a place where it was not intentionally planted) growing in his wheat field, so he sprayed them with RoundUp herbicide, which is designed to kill anything green and growing.

Michael Eavis, founder of the event normally held on his farm on the last full weekend of June, told the BBC: "It's like a fallow year in farming terms.

Ordering seeds, planning out the field, organizing crop rotations, companion planting, soil amendments... a glossary of farming terms and techniques swirled through my head as I spent countless hours alone in the field.

But, as I've had previous occasion to note, the idiom endures, along with a barnful of other farm terms about lost or distant practices, that demonstrate a mosaic reality of language.

In this study, we examined influences of two types of bullfrog farm (termed simple and elaborate farm enclosures) on the establishment of feral populations of this species in 137 water bodies in 66 plots in four provinces of China.

"Baby farming," a term coined in a British medical journal in 1867, was what Victorian doctors called it when desperately poor women paid even poorer women to take care of their babies, or, rather, doctors said, to deliberately kill them; many of the babies died of maltreatment, others of outright starvation.

Eurogamer, which is always good for a "think piece" or two, is running an exposé on gold farming, a term used to describe the buying and selling of in-game currencies (and items) in games like World of Warcraft.

"It would have been an easy way to avoid criticism, and we would have had a quieter life, but it wouldn't have enabled us to highlight the debate about how you can support sustainable [hill] farming in terms of the income, and the threat of subsidies disappearing [with Brexit].

Additionally in a rural community where most people labour in the farms, the term fatigue could have been misunderstood.