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unusual facts about Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food


Metro Chilpancingo

Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food - a satellite office is located a few blocks southwest of the station


Alabama Cooperative Extension System

Seaman Ashael Knapp (1831-1911) was a Union College graduate, Phi Beta Kappa member, physician, college instructor, and administrator, who took up farming late in life, moving to Iowa to raise general crops and livestock.

Aratta

The sorcerer travels to Eresh where he bewitches Enmerkar's livestock, but a wise woman outperforms his magic and casts him into the Euphrates; En-suhgir-ana then admits the loss of Inanna, and submits his kingdom to Uruk.

Battle of Fort Myers

Union commanders planned to send horse soldiers into the area north of the Caloosahatchee River to confiscate livestock from area cattle ranches, thereby preventing shipment of beef to the Confederate Army of the Tennessee in Georgia.

Bokaa Dam

The dam is in a region of Acacia savanna that is used for grazing many livestock including sheep, goats, donkeys and cattle.

Bomen, New South Wales

The suburb is dominated by industrial enterprises including Cargill Beef, Watties, the Wagga Wagga Livestock Marketing Centre (saleyards).

Catch dog

A Catch dog is a specially trained dog that is used to catch large animals in hunting, working livestock, and baiting.

Charquicán

This dish was commonly eaten by merchants travelling between the port of Arica and the mines of Potosi and by peasants travelling with herds of livestock.

Christian Veterinary Mission

These missionaries participate in various ministries depending on their location and personal gifts, including: livestock development, evangelism, ethno-veterinary medicine, church planting, and capacity building of local communities.

Costa del Sol

The agricultural sector suffered a deep depression that affected the raising of livestock and all the major crops, especially cultivation of Vitis vinifera, a grape used for the wine industry, which was devastated by a Phylloxera epidemic.

Dhorpatan

During the summer months large herds of livestock are brought north from Rapti Zone by Kham Magar to graze in surrounding pastureland.

Division No. 8, Manitoba

The economics of the area is based on agriculture, livestock and commercial fish on Lake Manitoba.

El Recuenco

These ruins consist of huts and livestock, that's now wild.

Enmerkar and En-suhgir-ana

Ansigaria agrees to fund this mission, and the sorceror then proceeds to Eresh, the city of Nisaba, where he somehow manages to sabotage the dairy livestock of Enmerkar.

Frank O. Horton

During the Spanish-American War he served as a private in Company C, Fiftieth Iowa Regiment in 1898; he moved to Saddlestring, Wyoming in 1905 and engaged in livestock raising.

Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas

The center includes such things as a pet walk, a livestock corral, wireless Internet access, a movie theater, and information kiosks.

Haematobia irritans

A white-eyed "albino" horn fly was discovered in a colony maintained at the Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory in Kerrville, Texas.

Helen Boehm

She married Edward Marshall Boehm, a veterinary assistant who raised livestock and created sculptures of animals in his spare time, in 1944.

Huang Hui

She has been the recipient of the prize for Excellent Design from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the People's Republic of China for her design of Beijing High School No.4.

Jacob Rees-Mogg

In his long speech on the Sustainable Livestock Bill, he recited poetry; spoke of the superior quality of Somerset eggs, and mentioned the fictional pig, the Empress of Blandings, who won silver at the Shropshire Show three years in a row, before moving on to talk about the sewerage system and the Battle of Agincourt.

Jens Nielson

Nielson became industrious and fairly successful in the coastal city of Aarhus where he also owned land and livestock.

Jim Nance McCord

McCord had a lifelong interest in livestock breeding, focusing mainly on Jersey cattle and Tennessee Walking Horses.

Jordan Township, Warren County, Indiana

The grain grown was either fed to livestock or hauled by wagon to elevators at Ambia, West Lebanon, or Rossville, Illinois.

Kalloni

The livestock breeding in Agra, the wine festival in Anemotia as well as the panigyri of Saint Trinity on 7 July in Kalloni, which includes three days feast and horse races.

Kevin Cahoon

Cahoon began his performing career at the age of 5 as 'The World's Youngest Rodeo Clown', performing throughout the Texas and Oklahoma Rodeo Circuits, including many consecutive seasons at The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo at Houston's Astrodome and The Texas State High School Finals Rodeo, resulting in a Letter of Citation from then Texas Governor Bill Clements.

La Coma i la Pedra

The local economy is traditionally based around livestock raising, although there is also a ski resort in the pyrenean massif of Port del Comte and a power station at Gafa.

Lacombe, Alberta

In 1907, the federal government set up an experimental farm to research grain and livestock production.

Levél

In the Second World War the village's agricultural produce and livestock was requisitioned by the Wehrmacht, leading to food shortages.

Long Walk of the Navajo

They include the murder of a personal servant of Major Brooks, commander of Fort Defiance, by an arrow in the back on July 12, 1858 for the slaughter of the Navajo livestock on the grazing grounds.

Metropolitan Cattle Market

Livestock could be conveniently transported to the depots before being driven the short distance up York Way to the market or walked down from Junction Road railway station.

Michel A. J. Georges

Michel A. J. Georges was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture in 2007 along with Ronald L. Phillips of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

Monthalia, Texas

As a testament to its livestock ranching, Nolan Ryan Beef operates several ranches in the area raising cattle.

Muncy Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania

Homes and fields were abandoned, with livestock driven along and a few possessions floated on rafts on the river east to Muncy, then further south to Sunbury.

Newcastle, KwaZulu-Natal

This city serves surrounding maize, livestock and dairy farmers as well as workers connected to Karbochem, Mittal Steel South Africa (previously ISPAT/ISCOR), the textile and service industry.

Orange Seely

In October 1875 scarcity of feed for their livestock sent Orange Seely and a company of men from Sanpete County with a herd of United Order stock Eastward through Cottonwood Canyon to the Castle Dale/Orangeville area.

Ould Lammas Fair

These include livestock and traditional foods such as Yellowman, a local variant of honeycomb and 'dulse', a type of edible seaweed.

Ramaytush people

– 1823 Pomponio, of Half Moon Bay led raids against Mission Dolores, taking livestock and horses.

Relief International UK

Relief International runs a ‘Livestock for Life’ project in five districts of Peshawar, Afghanistan to prevent Zoonotic diseases.

Ronald L. Phillips

In 2006/7, he was awarded the Wolf Prize in Agriculture along with Michel A. J. Georges of the University of Liège "for groundbreaking discoveries in genetics and genomics, laying the foundations for improvements in crop and livestock breeding, and sparking important advances in plant and animal sciences".

Royal American

American Royal, a livestock show, horse show and rodeo held each year in October and November at Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri

Sqoon

Aliens who rule the planet Neptune realize that they have run out of their primary source of nutrition, "man-ham livestock," and decide to invade Earth to feed off the humans.

Sticking

Sticking knife, an agricultural tool used for bleeding out livestock in home butchering

Suzu, Ishikawa

Livestock: Noto Beef, a regionally renowned brand, is bred here

The Kine Saga

Descended from mink that escaped from fur farms, Gru and her kind seek revenge against the humans, and so travel the countryside massacring wildlife and livestock alike.

Thomas New

Thomas was a pioneer settler of the Dunedoo and Warren districts, and operated pubs and traded livestock.

Tony Little

Little is an avid collector of antiques, classic cars, and obscure species of livestock; he owns eight of the latter.

Tsegaye Kebede

Living in Gerar Ber, a town some 40 km north of Addis Ababa, he collected firewood to sell and herded livestock to supplement his father's earnings, paying for his own education and the rest of his family.

Un-Australian

It is used in a humorous TV advertising campaign by Meat and Livestock Australia, in which ex-AFL footballer Sam Kekovich declares that not including lamb in one's diet is "un-Australian".

WXTB

A tongue-in-cheek portmanteau of "Live Aid" and "Woodstock", each weekend-long Livestock event brought well known national acts such as Soundgarden and Tesla together with lesser-known bands hoping for a chance at success.


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