1.   The plan is intended to prevent farmers from poisoning or shooting the birds, which is against the law.

2.   It also asks councils to remove grass cuttings, which kill the plants underneath, and to take firm action to prevent farmers from ploughing up verges.

3.   But the distance is not great enough to prevent farmers in south-central Wisconsin from helping drought-stricken ranchers in the two South Texas counties.

4.   Limiting enrollment would prevent farmers from building up grain stockpiles, especially on wheat.

5.   Receiving a quota buyout would not prevent a farmer from continuing to grow peanuts or receiving federal subsidies.

6.   Rains have prevented cacao farmers from both planting and harvesting.

7.   Rain has pounded wheat fields almost incessantly since May, preventing farmers from harvesting the winter wheat crop.

8.   The department attributed reduced plantings to late harvests of corn and soybean fields in the Midwest, which prevented farmers from sowing those fields to wheat.

9.   The department, though, attributed reduced plantings to late harvests of corn and soybean fields in the Midwest, which prevented farmers from sowing those fields to wheat.

10.   They saw it as a potentially useful tool for preventing farmers from growing valuable genetically engineered crops without paying annually for the seed.