sheep Archive

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    Animal magnetism - by frog



    I just came across this science blog from Seed magazine on the tendency of sheep and cows to face the same way when grazing. In a new paper, Sabine Begali from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany spied on aligned herds of cows and deer using satellite images from Google Earth. The images revealed a [...] read more
    August 27, 2008 9:39 am - 15 Comments
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    Industrial dairy could hurt the summer BBQ - by frog



    OK, so barbecued lamb chops are not really my major concern with large scale dairy conversions, but it seems they (dairy conversions) are partly to blame for the ratio of sheep to people falling from 22 sheep for every person in 1982 to 8 to 1 today: Economic Service executive director Rob Davison says the [...] read more
    August 9, 2008 8:57 am - 37 Comments
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    China looks to NZ food and farms - by frog



    The head of HSBC, Margaret Leung is in the Herald this morning saying that we can expect lots more Chinese financial interest in New Zealand assets. It is interesting that she particularly singles out food as an area for future investment: “At the moment we are financing quite a bit of meat exports but we [...] read more
    May 6, 2008 8:53 am - 5 Comments