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  • Young man feeding Highland cattle at Dalwhinnie in Scotland
    SC-0069 Punk and Cattle.jpg
  • Lorne Nelson raises Highland cattle on his family estate, Kilmaronaig, near Connel, Argyll, Scotland. His is one of the largest herds, now used primarily as breeding stock, with the Highland cattle providing a reliable degree of heartiness when cross bred with other cattle. For Nelson the cattle are part of a diversified farming program that even includes oyster and mussel farming.
    MM8154_20130801_08064.jpg
  • Cattle judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the cattle, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.
    MM7753_2010-07-20_8183.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it.
    MM7753_20101028_40204.jpg
  • Hauling cattle off of the little island of Ensay back to the Isle of Harris, Scotland. The crew from Pabbay farms graze cattle on the island, then haul them back on a little barge.
    MM8321_20161010_30422-Pano-Edit.jpg
  • Hauling cattle off of the little island of Ensay back to the Isle of Harris, Scotland. The crew from Pabbay farms graze cattle on the island, then haul them back on a little barge.
    MM8321_20161010_30427.jpg
  • Hauling cattle off of the little island of Ensay back to the Isle of Harris, Scotland. The crew from Pabbay farms graze cattle on the island, then haul them back on a little barge.
    MM8321_20161010_30840-Edit.jpg
  • Lesley Matheson with her Highland cattle on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. She and her husband have made their Brue Highlanders a strongly branded product sold direct to restaurants.
    MM8321_20161011_31402.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.
    MM7753_20101026_38949.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.<br />
<br />
Sheko and Abigar and 31 of the Gurage were purchased from their natural habitats and introduced in to medium to high tsetse–trypanosomosis challenge area of the Ghibe valley<br />
<br />
Trypanosomiasis or trypanosomosis is the name of several diseases in vertebrates caused by parasitic protozoan trypanosomes of the genus Trypanosoma. Approximately 500,000 men, women and children in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa suffer from human African trypanosomiasis which is caused by either Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. The other human form of trypanosomiasis, called Chagas disease, causes 21,000 deaths per year [1] mainly in Latin America.
    MM7753_20101026_37523.jpg
  • Cattle feedlot in Kansas, CAFO,
    Cattle Feedlot.jpg
  • Cattle feedlot in Kansas, CAFO,
    Cattle Feedlot.jpg
  • Lorne Nelson raises Highland cattle on his family estate, Kilmaronaig, near Connel, Argyll, Scotland.
    MM8154_20130801_08064 - Version 4.jpg
  • Angie Hamilton with her British White Cattle on their farm in Carmarthenshire, Wales.<br />
<br />
 The British White is polled (genetically hornless), docile and was a dual purpose breed (beef and milk) until 1950. Since then the British Whites selection has been for beef production with carry over heavy milk production.
    MM7753_2010-07-26_14017.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.
    MM7753_20101026_38949.jpg
  • Trampeling wheat for the winnowing process in Ethiopia. The oxen help break down the wheat stalks and loosen the grain in the heads to make the winnowing easier.
    MM8154_20131107_24839.jpg
  • Ranch hands gather for branding in the Sandhills of Nebraska.
    Cowboy Lineup, Nebraska.jpg
  • Cattle feedlots in Kansas bring the cattle closer to the grain that is grown using water from the Ogallala Aquifer. Such Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) can hold over 100,000 amilmals and the ares of southwest Kansas will have several million cattle in feedlots at any one time.
    Cattle Feedlot.jpg
  • Dust rises from a cattle feedlot in Kansas as cattle milling around kick up huge dust clouds.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220140.jpg
  • A feedlot cowboy "riding the range" at the Ingalls Feedlot, Ingalls, Kansas.  The innovation of feedlots was to bring the cattle to the feed and thus reduce labor and stress on the cattle producing higher profit margins.  Here you can see the central feed bins with the "alleys" designed for effecient feeding by special feed trucks.  This cowboy said he likes being on the range better but the pay and benefits are better in the feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220115_0023.jpg
  • A feedlot cowboy "riding the range" at the Ingalls Feedlot, Ingalls, Kansas.  The innovation of feedlots was to bring the cattle to the feed and thus reduce labor and stress on the cattle producing higher profit margins.  Here you can see the central feed bins with the "alleys" designed for effecient feeding by special feed trucks.  This cowboy said he likes being on the range better but the pay and benefits are better in the feedlots.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220258.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220187.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220042.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220107.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220101.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220100.jpg
  • Cattle judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the cattle, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.
    MM7753_2010-07-20_8183.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it.
    MM7753_20101028_40661.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it. <br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101028_40204.jpg
  • Market day in Goro, Ethiopia where women bring grain to sell and farmers bring cattle and other livestock. The cattle market is very busy with sellers and buyers mingling side by side with the animals. <br />
<br />
The grain may be ground into flower or may be used as seed for the next season's crop. They pour the grain to show it off and to further winnow and clean it to make it more valuable. Some were selling corn and chickpeas, but many were selling the typically Ethiopian grain called teff. <br />
<br />
Some choose to sell their grain directly to a broker or middleman rather that sit all afternoon in the hot sun. They can be seen with their bags of grain on a scale, waiting anxiously to see what price they will get for it. <br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101028_40661.jpg
  • Cattle judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the cattle, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.  <br />
<br />
Contacts: <br />
Richard Broad<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
 Stoneleigh Park, Nr. Kenilworth,  Warwickshire<br />
UK     DCV8 2LG<br />
Phone:  01834 860886<br />
07772 007399<br />
Email: r.broad@rbst.org.uk<br />
<br />
Sally Renshaw<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
Phone:  +44 024 7669 6551<br />
+44 (0)2476 698764<br />
Email: sally@rbst.org.uk
    MM7753_2010-07-20_8183.jpg
  • Cattle judging at the Royal Welsh Agricultural Show in Builth Wells, Wales, UK. <br />
<br />
Judges can be seen carefully inspecting the cattle, looking for the details of breeding that can make the animals better suited for their economic tasks. Generations of farmers (and judges) have been looking carefully for these traits for hundreds of years in order to make the animals more productive.<br />
<br />
The Royal Welsh Agricultural Show is one of the largest shows in in the UK, and showcasing the great agricultural tradition of Wales.  <br />
<br />
Contacts: <br />
Richard Broad<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
 Stoneleigh Park, Nr. Kenilworth,  Warwickshire<br />
UK     DCV8 2LG<br />
Phone:  01834 860886<br />
07772 007399<br />
Email: r.broad@rbst.org.uk<br />
<br />
Sally Renshaw<br />
Rare Breeds Survival Trust<br />
Phone:  +44 024 7669 6551<br />
+44 (0)2476 698764<br />
Email: sally@rbst.org.uk
    MM7753_2010-07-20_8183.jpg
  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220115_0010.jpg
  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
    MM7753_20101101_44576.jpg
  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
    MM7753_20101101_44552.jpg
  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220114_0040.jpg
  • Inside a Palloza in the ancient Celtic village of Piernado in Los Ancares, the eastern mountainous region of Galicia. Cows are led to pasture in the morning and come home later in the day on their own, this one much later.  Here the old Celtic ways are still pretty fresh and the current generation still uses the old Pallozas, thatched stone houses that were home to livestock as well, even if they have built newer living quarters next door.  Jose (check this name) was born in this palloza and still uses it everyday, keeping his cattle and chickens here.  Note the Roman cart, still used in some areas of Galicia.
    MM7189 20050721 39302.jpg
  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101101_43924.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.<br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101026_38999.jpg
  • Boys eat sorghum stalks put out for the cattle at the house of Jamal Muhammed in the Fontanina area south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Sorghum is a staple food for people and livestock alike here and the boys like it for the same reason the cows do: it is sweet to chew. Sorghum varieties with tall stalks are favored for the amount of forage they produce.
    MM7753_20101102_46310.jpg
  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
    MM7753_20101101_44552.jpg
  • Zemu Ali stands next to her small shelter where she guards the teff crop of a local farmer. The small stalk-built structures are common in the region south of Kombulcha where large amounts of teff are grown in the Ethiopian highlands. Teff is highly valued, and Zemu is making sure that stray cattle do not invade the field and damage the crop.
    MM7753_20101031_43518.jpg
  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch north of Scottsbluff in the Sandhills of Nebraska are testaments to the precious nature of water on the Great Plains. This rancher erected seven windmills to pump water for his cattle in this Sandhills ranch.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220194.jpg
  • Cattle working contest for teams of "Feedlot Cowboys" and "Feedlot Cowgirls" from area feedlots at Beef Empire Days, Garden City, Kansas.  They have to "Doctor" three steers in shortest possible time. Beef Empire Days is the major celebration in Garden City, which owes its wealth to the beef industry which was made possible by the waters of the Ogallala Aquifer.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220131.jpg
  • Boys eat sorghum stalks put out for the cattle at the house of Jamal Muhammed in the Fontanina area south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia.<br />
<br />
Sorghum is a staple food for people and livestock alike here and the boys like it for the same reason the cows do: it is sweet to chew. Sorghum varieties with tall stalks are favored for the amount of forage they produce. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101102_46310.jpg
  • Women carry sorghum home from the fields along the road south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. <br />
<br />
Sorghum is a staple of the food supply here. The grain will be part of dinner tonight and the stalks will be fed to the cattle and other livestock. The long stalks are favored because of the volume of forage the provide. <br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101101_45097.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.<br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101026_38949.jpg
  • Women carry sorghum home from the fields along the road south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. <br />
<br />
Sorghum is a staple of the food supply here. The grain will be part of dinner tonight and the stalks will be fed to the cattle and other livestock. The long stalks are favored because of the volume of forage the provide.
    MM7753_20101101_45097.jpg
  • Women carry sorghum home from the fields along the road south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. <br />
<br />
Sorghum is a staple of the food supply here. The grain will be part of dinner tonight and the stalks will be fed to the cattle and other livestock. The long stalks are favored because of the volume of forage the provide.
    MM7753_20101101_45097.jpg
  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
    MM7753_20101101_44576.jpg
  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.     <br />
Acacia auriculiformis (Fabaceae), commonly known as Auri, Earleaf acacia, Earpod wattle, Northern black wattle, Papuan wattle, Tan wattle, is a fast-growing, crooked, gnarly and thorny tree in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. It grows up to 30m tall. Acacia auriculiformis has about 47 000 seeds/kg. This plant is raised as an ornamental plant, as a shade tree and it is also raised on plantations for fuelwood throughout southeast Asia Oceana and in Sudan. Its wood is good for making paper, furniture and tools. It contains tannin useful in animal hide tanning. [from Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_auriculiformis]<br />
interesting weblinks:<br />
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/acacia.htm<br />
http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/sea/Products/AFDbases/af/asp/SpeciesInfo.asp?SpID=10: Products: Fodder: Not widely used as fodder, but in India 1-year-old plantations are browsed by cattle. Apiculture: The flowers are a source of pollen for honey production. Fuel: A major source of firewood, its dense wood and high energy (calorific value of 4500-4900 kcal/kg) contribute to its popularity. It provides very good charcoal that glows well with little smoke and does not spark. Fibre: The wood is extensively used for paper pulp. Plantation-grown trees have been found promising for the production of unbleached kraft pulp and high-quality, neutral, sulphite semi-chemical pulp. Large-scale plantations have already been established, as in Kerala, India, for the production of pulp. Timber: The sapwood is yellow; the heartwood light brown to dark red, straight grained and reasonably durable. The wood has a high basic density (500-650 kg/m³), is fine-grained, often attractively figured and finishes well. It is excellent for turnery articles, toys, carom coins, chessmen and handicrafts. Also used for furniture, joinery, tool handles, and f
    MM7753_2010-07-23_11910.jpg
  • Beardtongue blooming after spring burning on the RK Cattle ranch near Council Grove, Kansas
    MM7469_060526_05220.jpg
  • Wildflowers near the RK Cattle ranch south of Council Grove, Kansas. Springtime.
    MM7469_060613_06366(16x24).jpg
  • Alfalfa hay in curving windrows is being baled on an irrigatted field in Kansas. Such irrigation of hay to feed cattle is a big user of Ogallala Aquifer water.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220150.jpg
  • Orkney potter and ardent student of archeology Andrew Appleby built a turf kilm at the Ness of Brodgar to fire some of the pots he as made using the patterns of Neolithic pottery found at the dig site. Appleby has done extensive research into the materials and methods Neolithic potters could have used to make their pottery. His kiln included the use of Bere barley husks to tamp down the fire, cattle bones to support the pottery and add heat to the fire, and grass to cap the kiln. Red hot pots can be seen emerging from the fires in the evening.
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
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Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
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The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
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  • Rassama Camara in his sorghum field in the village of Siby, Mali. Sorghum in is a major crop in this dry land area, and ICRISAT works with farmers to introduce new varieties with various traits that will improve production. Besides eating the grain, the plant material is used of cattle fodder and even to make fences.
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
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  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.     <br />
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Acacia auriculiformis (Fabaceae), commonly known as Auri, Earleaf acacia, Earpod wattle, Northern black wattle, Papuan wattle, Tan wattle, is a fast-growing, crooked, gnarly and thorny tree in the family Fabaceae. It is native to Australia, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. It grows up to 30m tall. Acacia auriculiformis has about 47 000 seeds/kg. This plant is raised as an ornamental plant, as a shade tree and it is also raised on plantations for fuelwood throughout southeast Asia Oceana and in Sudan. Its wood is good for making paper, furniture and tools. It contains tannin useful in animal hide tanning. [from Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacia_auriculiformis]<br />
interesting weblinks:<br />
http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/acacia.htm<br />
http://www.worldagroforestrycentre.org/sea/Products/AFDbases/af/asp/SpeciesInfo.asp?SpID=10: Products: Fodder: Not widely used as fodder, but in India 1-year-old plantations are browsed by cattle. Apiculture: The flowers are a source of pollen for honey production. Fuel: A major source of firewood, its dense wood and high energy (calorific value of 4500-4900 kcal/kg) contribute to its popularity. It provides very good charcoal that glows well with little smoke and does not spark. Fibre: The wood is extensively used for paper pulp. Plantation-grown trees have been found promising for the production of unbleached kraft pulp and high-quality, neutral, sulphite semi-chemical pulp. Large-scale plantations have already been established, as in Kerala, India, for the production of pulp. Timber: T
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals. <br />
<br />
Contact: Genene Gezu<br />
Program Coordinator<br />
Ethio-Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
Tel: +251 11 550 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 91 1 79 56 22<br />
genenegezu@yahoo.com<br />
shigenene@gmail.com<br />
PO Box 5512<br />
Addis Aababa, Ethiopia
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  • Wildflowers near the RK Cattle ranch south of Council Grove, Kansas.
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  • Wildflowers near the RK Cattle ranch south of Council Grove, Kansas.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220114_0042.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.<br />
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Sheko and Abigar and 31 of the Gurage were purchased from their natural habitats and introduced in to medium to high tsetse–trypanosomosis challenge area of the Ghibe valley<br />
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Trypanosomiasis or trypanosomosis is the name of several diseases in vertebrates caused by parasitic protozoan trypanosomes of the genus Trypanosoma. Approximately 500,000 men, women and children in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa suffer from human African trypanosomiasis which is caused by either Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. The other human form of trypanosomiasis, called Chagas disease, causes 21,000 deaths per year [1] mainly in Latin America.<br />
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<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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  • The market in Bati is incredibly large, diverse and crowded, being the place where people from the lowlands and highlands of northern Ethiopia meet to exchange their crops, livestock and wares. Something like 20,000 people show up at the Monday market every week. <br />
<br />
Grain is an extremely important commodity, including the all important teff for making injera. Farmers and sellers lay their grain out in bags and piles on plastic sheeting on the ground, and measure it out with tin cans. <br />
<br />
The cattle and camel market is equally large, with pastoral herders from the lowlands, many of them Afar people, coming to sell their livestock to the highland people. The market takes place in one big corral, with buyers and sellers squeezed in amongst the animals.
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  • Women carry sorghum home from the fields along the road south of Kombulcha, Ethiopia. <br />
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Sorghum is a staple of the food supply here. The grain will be part of dinner tonight and the stalks will be fed to the cattle and other livestock. The long stalks are favored because of the volume of forage the provide.
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  • Rassama Camara in his sorghum field in the village of Siby, Mali. Sorghum in is a major crop in this dry land area, and ICRISAT works with farmers to introduce new varieties with various traits that will improve production. Besides eating the grain, the plant material is used of cattle fodder and even to make fences.
    MM8154_20131031_22898 - Version 2.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.
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  • Cattle graze and sleep in the morning at the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve near Strong City, Kansas
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  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska. A clever rancher put up seven windmills to pump shallow groundwater into a water tank so he could water his cattle.
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