They are commonly carried as tools by farmers, used by street vendors to prepare coconuts, pineapples, other fruits and meats, and balisongs are cheap to procure in the streets as well as being easily concealed.

He wondered just how much farming was going to get done by human farmers, used to having burly Centaurs helping with the plowing.

The farmers, used to the harsh conditions of farming in Russia, were some of the most successful in adapting to the Canadian prairies.

About a third is applied by professional lawn-care companies, the rest by householders, "untrained people, not farmers used to pesticides," said Mr. Roelofs.

She massaged them with the lotion the farmers used on cow's udders, reckoning that would help, and it seemed to-but she still worried.

The old farmer whose father had cleared this place (and who when I knew him a quarter-century ago was 80 years old) used to grow teary sometimes, seeing how his former pastures were thickening with alder brush or fir and poplar trees, after having been laboriously cleared.

Moreover, the typically curious and willful nature of the Finncattle animals, and the breeds' tendency to fatten rather than milk more when fed more may cause problems to farmers used to further-bred dairy breeds.

While I understand that many countries do not fulfil their current quota allocations, including the UK, I strongly believe, that in line with the abolition of milk quotas in 2015, we need to get farmers used to the idea of having the option to produce more.

Along the way, advances in veterinary medicine have slowly been accepted by farmers used to the old ways.