Farmer Island

Farmer Island is an island in the Piper Islands National Park in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Queensland, Australia. It is located in Temple Bay about 100 km northeast of Iron Range National Park and Lockhart River and 50 km south of Cape Grenville. The island, along with neighbouring Baird, Beesley and Fisher Islands, constitutes the Piper Islands Important Bird Area, so identified by BirdLife International because of its importance as a breeding site for pied imperial pigeons and black noddies. It is around 5 hectares or 0.05 square km in size.

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What will spring look like in RI? Here's the 2025 Old Farmer's Almanac forecast

The Newport Daily News 22 Mar 2025
How accurate are long-range weather forecasts by farmers almanacs? ... The Atlantic Corridor region, which includes southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and most of Connecticut, the Old Farmer's Almanac is predicting above average temperatures.
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Old Farmer's Almanac spring 2025 weather forecast: See what they expect in MA

The Gardner News 22 Mar 2025
How accurate are long-range weather forecasts by farmers almanacs? ... The Atlantic Corridor region, which includes southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island and most of Connecticut, the Old Farmer's Almanac is also predicting above average temperatures.
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Old Farmer's Almanac Spring 2025: Here's what they predict the weather will be like in NH

Seacoast Online 22 Mar 2025
How accurate are long-range weather forecasts by farmers almanacs?. The Farmer's Almanac and The Old Farmer's Almanac both use "secret" formulas for making long-range weather forecasts ... The Old Farmer's ...
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New feed mill opens in Makoi

FBC News 22 Mar 2025
... farm on Taveuni Island, as well as other interested poultry farmers.
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Crescent Duck Farm owner: USDA lifts 10-KM quarantine after bird-flu outbreak

Newsday 20 Mar 2025
The USDA has lifted one of two quarantines around Long Island's last commercial duck farm, according to the North Fork farmer impacted by the order.
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Trump spending cuts force Farm Fresh RI to lay off staff, other food programs in danger

The Providence Journal 20 Mar 2025
Farm Fresh Rhode Island has been forced to lay off eight employees due to the Trump ... The organization gets another grant from the Agriculture Department to promote farmers markets in Rhode Island.
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4 cases filed, SIT probing CRZ records scam: Govt

The Times of India 20 Mar 2025
The operation enabled unauthorised construction on numerous plots.Estate agents, govt employees and contractors allegedly participated in altering land records in Marve, Madh island, Versova and other sensitive ecological areas.
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Islanders feel impacts to federal cuts | Letter

The San Juan Journal 19 Mar 2025
I recently learned that our local Island Grown Farmer’s Cooperative received a federal grant for $92,000 to put solar panels on their meat processing facility ... San Juan Island.
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Cut back on showers, Aucklanders warned, as drought plan activated

RNZ 19 Mar 2025
"So well shy of where we would normally be - it's incredibly dry out there." ... Elsewhere around the North Island and the top of the South Island, lush farms are turning into deserts as drought conditions worsen and farmers struggle to grow grass ... ....
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Farmer’s house in danger from climate change, court told in RWE case

The Observer 19 Mar 2025
Similar cases have been filed in Belgium, where a cattle farmer is targeting French oil giant Total, and in Switzerland, where four Indonesians from the island of Pari are targeting cement maker Holcim.
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Get to know the Wisconsin All-American gymnast who's on Fox's 'Farmer Wants a Wife' starting Thursday

Sheboygan Press 18 Mar 2025
Fun facts with 'Farmer Wants a Wife' star, Wisconsinite Grace Girard ... "Farmer Wants a Wife." ... "And, I was like, 'I'm not going to fit on 'Love Island,' but I just heard about this show called 'Farmer Wants a Wife.' I think that's more of a fit.'".
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Woonasquatucket River Watershed Council, others sue Trump administration over federal grant freeze

The Providence Journal 18 Mar 2025
The Eastern Rhode Island Conservation District has been unable to set up the state’s first municipal composting site and hire staff to help farmers use technology to improve efficiency after a $350,000 grant was put on hold.
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How farmers are faring as drought declared in Northland, Waikato, Marlborough and Taranaki

RNZ 18 Mar 2025
The clock is ticking for drought stricken farmers in the Central North Island who fear if they don't get rain soon, before temperatures drop further, then no grass will grow before winter bites.
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Two govt staffers held for CRZ land maps’ ‘tampering’

The Times of India 18 Mar 2025
Wable's lawyer, Sudhir Bhardawaj, told the court that his client had been framed.The SIT, formed following HC's order, has found that around 165 maps of land in Marve, Madh island, Versova and other CRZ spots had been manipulated.
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Raccoons: Crafty night burglars

The San Juan Journal 17 Mar 2025
Hence, when Euro-American farmers streamed into the islands in the wake of the American Civil War, raccoons were the largest terrestrial carnivores they had to cope with ... on south San Juan Island.
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