Smaller outfits seldom have much of a cushion to buy extra feed, and Texas had a nasty drought last summer, too.
The farm said it was having to buy in the extra feed because of the the poor quality of last year's home-grown silage crop.
Swans are well known in these parts for their healthy appetite for grass, and the conservation scheme now provides compensation for the extra beaks to feed.
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This comes at a stage of life in which a majority of Generation Xers own a home (translate: have a mortgage payment) and have minor children (translate: extra mouths to feed).
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To feed those extra people would take farmland the size of Brazil, the argument goes.
Every hour, then, the country has an extra 200 little mouths to feed.
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Without a new green revolution, farmers will need 60% more water to feed the 2 billion extra people who will be born between now and 2025.
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At worst this will reduce the amount of extra food that needs to be grown to feed a burgeoning population.
Yes, I can feed myself, but my DLA covers the extra costs of buying ready meals and takeaways for days like today, when my knee is twice the size it should be.
On tiny plots, and often poor-quality soil, without modern equipment or farming methods, and sometimes beset by land disputes, many peasant farmers struggle to feed their family and grow just a little extra to sell in the village market.
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Wroxham Barns usually take extra lambs from ewes on local farms that are unable to feed their young.
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They've been able to absorb the extra costs of shipping in hay and sending their animals to feed lots, but for smaller farms and ranchers that experienced large fires, the situation is less optimistic.
If you include the 1 billion people who are now going hungry, the additional mouths to feed over the next 40 years add up to three extra Indias.
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