Both are suffering from the worst drought in a century, and decades of prolific farm irrigation.Toorale's 91,000 hectares (240,000 acres) straddle plains where the Warrego, a small river draining central Queensland, meets the Darling.
Sea lice, the parasitic crustaceans that feed on live fish tissues, are prolific in the ocean farms and can jump from farmed fish to wild ones that pass by the enclosures.
Feral hogs are prolific breeders that spread disease, ruin farms, and eat everything from garbage to their own offspring, and they're quickly becoming more prevalent in most of the southern United States.
Inheritance of the ovulation rate (OR) in the Lacaune meat breed was studied through records from a small nucleus of 36 hyper-prolific ewes screened on farms on the basis of their natural litter size, and from progeny data of three selected Lacaune sires.
In a meat-sheep farm on the dry Larzac plateau, 280 highly prolific rustic ewes were reared fully outdoors on 260 ha of native vegetation (2 t DM/hayear) plus 18 ha of fertilized vegetation (4t DM/hayear), 10.2 ha hay fields and 2.8 ha cereals (Molénat et al., 2005).
Industrial agriculture is additionally responsible for large-scale degradation through factory farming, waste lagoons, antibiotics and growth hormones, GMOs, monocultures, and prolific use of chemical pesticides and fertilizers.
He cultivated a prolific garden of vegetables and herbs, kept bees, and maintained a menagerie of farm animals.
China has about 100 cockroach farms, and new ones are opening almost as fast as the prolific critters breed.
He was a prolific farmer, tending his ever-growing garden on the Hudson, which he called Riverview Farms.
This biography of the most prolific black author of the Civil War era follows its subject from a slave farm in Missouri through a daring escape to freedom and a career as an abolitionist, writer, temperance advocate, and medical doctor.
