wheat-producing

wheat.

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► adjetivo

1 wheat

► nombre masculino triguero

1 (ave) corn bunting

► nombre masculino

1 (ave) corn bunting

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ADJ wheat antes de s

SM / F (=comerciante) corn merchant

SM (=tamiz) corn sieve

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- ra adjetivo < tierras> wheat-producing; < producción> wheat (before n)

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- ra adjetivo < tierras> wheat-producing; < producción> wheat (before n)

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‹tierras› wheat-producing espárrago

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♦ adj

1. [producción] wheat

2. [terreno] wheat-producing

♦ nm

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adj wheat atr

producteur, -trice [pʀɔdyktœʀ, tʀis]

1. adjective

• pays producteur de pétrole oil-producing country

2. masculine noun, feminine noun

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- trice pʀɔdyktœʀ, tʀis adjectif

nom masculin, féminin

1) Économie (de matériel, pétrole, d'objet) producer; (de café, coton) grower, producer

2) Cinéma, Télévision ( personne) producer; ( société) production company

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1. adj

2. nm/f

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producteur, - trice

A adj une région productrice de thé/café tea-/coffee-growing area; un pays producteur de viande a meat-producing country; pays producteur de pétrole/charbon oil-/coal-producing country.

B nm,f

1 Écon (de matériel, pétrole, d'objet, énergie) producer; (de plante, céréale, café, coton) grower, producer; ce pays est un producteur agricole this country is an agricultural producer; du producteur au consommateur from the producer to the consumer;

2 ⇒ Les métiers et les professions Cin, TV ( personne) producer; ( société) production company; un producteur de radio/télévision a radio/television producer; un producteur réalisateur a producer and director.

( féminin productrice) [prɔdyktɶr, tris] adjectif

zone productrice de betteraves beetroot-producing ou beetroot-growing area

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, productrice [prɔdyktɶr, tris] nom masculin, nom féminin

CINÉMA & RADIO & THÉÂTRE & TÉLÉVISION [personne] producer

[société] production company

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nom masculin

les producteurs de melons melon growers ou producers

granifero agg. graniferous, wheat-producing (attr.): terreno granifero, wheat-producing land.

wheat-/corn-growing, wheat/corn producing

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житопроизводѝтелен,

прил., -на, -но, -ни wheat-/corn-growing, wheat/corn producing.

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Grammatical information: f. pl.

Meaning: `one-sided wheat, spelt, Triticum monococcum' (Od., Hdt.), hell. and late also sg. ζειά (Thphr.), ζεά ( ζέα), -η (pap. III^a, D. H.; Dsc. and Gal. as v. l.).

Compounds: As 1. member in ζεί-δωρος `giving spelt (wheat)' (Il.; of ἄρουρα), ζεό-πυρον n. `kind of Triticum' (Gal.); as 2. member in φυσί-ζοος `producing wheat' (Hom., Orac. ap. Hdt. 1, 67; of αἶα), Οἰσε-ζέα PN (Lesb.). Both as 1. and as 2. member ζει-, - ζοος were early (Emp., A.) associated with ζῆν, ζωή and understood as `lifegiving'.

Derivatives: ζῆνος = ζέϊνος `of spelt' (pap. II^a)?

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [512] *i̯eu̯h₁-`wheat, spelt'

Etymology: Clearly to Skt. yáva-, Av. yava- m. `wheat etc.', Lith. pl. javaĩ `wheat', sg. jãvas. If the diphthong in ζειαί is real, we have to start from PGr. *ζεϜ-ι̯ᾰ (Sommer Lautstud. 153f., s. Schulze Q. 288 n. 4), so a ιᾰ-deriv. of IE. *i̯eu̯o- in Skt. yáva- etc. The monophthongal forms would be secondary. But if ζειαι has metric lengthening for ζε(Ϝ)αί (with the epic orthography retained in this prob. purely literary word), the Greek word agrees with the Indo-Iranian and Lithuanian word. The 2. member - ζο(Ϝ)ος (with regular ο-ablaut) speaks against a ι̯ᾰ-deriv. The 1. member ζει- may stand for ζε(Ϝ)ε- (from *i̯eu̯h₁-). Cf. δηαί. - Cf. Bq and WP., Pok. 512, Bechtel Lexilogus s. ζείδωρος, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 31.

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   Large farms and landed estates, generally south of the Tagus River. Located mainly but not exclusively in the Alentejo district, southeast of Lisbon, these large, landed estates originated in Roman and then Muslim times and, by the 19th century, were characterized by absentee landowners and vast estates of thousands of acres farmed by landless peasants who provided much of the labor. Concentrated in the wheat-growing Alentejo district, the latifúndio represented a chronic, severe social and economic problem that many successive governments failed to address or to solve. Agrarian reform attempts in the late monarchy, the First Republic, and the Estado Novo failed to deal decisively with the latifúndio problem.

   A mere handful of well-off families, sometimes resident in the towns or in Lisbon, owned most of the land, while most of the work on this land, a crucial food-producing area of Portugal, was performed by poor peasants with little or no access to land ownership. Sporadic forcible occupation of land on a small scale by farm workers occurred during the First Republic, but the authorities soon repressed it. During the Revolution of 25 April 1974, about 1,136,363 hectares (2.5 million acres) of latifúndio were forcibly occupied by farm workers and political supporters, and a program of land ownership redistribution and sharing was initiated. Agrarian reform efforts regarding both minifúndio and latifúndio have continued.

    See also Agriculture; Minifúndios.

SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology

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A farmer's son, at the age of 17 McKay developed modifications to the existing stripper harvester and created a machine that would not only strip the seed from standing corn, but was able to produce a threshed, winnowed and clean sample in one operation. The prototype was produced in 1884 and worked well on the two acres of wheat that had been set aside on the family farm. By arrangement with a Melbourne plough maker, five machines were made and sold for the 1885 season. In 1886 the McKay Harvester Company was formed, with offices at Ballarat, from which the machines, built by various companies, were sold. The business expanded quickly, selling sixty machines in 1888, and eventually rising to the production of nearly 2,000 harvesters in 1905. The name "Sunshine" was given to the harvester, and the "Sun" prefix was to appear on all other implements produced by the company as it diversified its production interests. In 1902 severe drought reduced machinery sales and left 2,000 harvesters unsold. McKay was forced to look to export markets to dispose of his surplus machines. By 1914 a total of 10,000 machines were being exported annually. During the First World War McKay was appointed to the Business Board of the Defence Department. Increases in the scale of production resulted in the company moving to Melbourne, where it was close to the port of entry of raw materials and was able to export the finished article more readily. In 1909 McKay produced one of the first gas-engined harvesters, but its cost prevented it from being more than an experimental prototype. By this time McKay was the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in the Southern hemisphere, producing a wide range of implements, including binders. In 1916 McKay hired Headlie Taylor, who had developed a machine capable of harvesting fallen crops. The jointly developed machine was a major success, coming as it did in what would otherwise have been a disastrous Australian harvest. Further developments included the "Sun Auto-header" in 1923, the first of the harvesting machines to adopt the "T" configuration to be seen on modern harvesters. The Australian market was expanding fast and a keen rivalry developed between McKay and Massey Harris. Confronted by the tariff regulations with which the Australian Government had protected its indigenous machinery industry since 1906, Massey Harris sold all its Australian assets to the H.V. McKay company in 1930. Twenty-three years later Massey Ferguson acquired the old Sunshine works and was still operating from there in the 1990s.

Despite a long-running history of wage disputes with his workforce, McKay established a retiring fund as well as a self-help fund for distressed cases. Before his death he created a charitable trust and requested that some funds should be made available for the "aerial experiments" which were to lead to the establishment of the Flying Doctor Service.

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