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Robert Mallett, Dickson and Mallett, Northleaze Farm, Highworth, Swindon
Robert Mallett is the 2020
Farmers Weekly Dairy Farmer of the Year.
His approach to dairy farming is proof that high-yielding herds can produce milk economically from grazed grass and good quality silage, with autumn-calving Holsteins converting every ounce of nutrition from grassland to milk.
Robert, who farms with his wife Maria and son David, demonstrates that purchased feed can be offset with grazed grass or forage to push milk from forage to a remarkable level.
From three-times-a-day milking, the herd has an annual average yield of 11,407 litres, and 4,390 litres of those come from forage.
Discovery of magnetic iron ore reserve in Dinajpur
Proper steps needed for commercial mining
An iron ore sample from Dinajpur hangs in the air when attached to a magnet. Photo courtesy:
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He holds a piece of the rock sample and brings it near to a magnet bar. Instantly, the rock sample gets attached to the magnet and hangs on to it when the magnet bar is held up in the air. This is magnetite ore, a magnetic iron-rich mineral valued worldwide for its content, and we have just discovered a big reserve of this mineral only 450 metres below the surface at Alihat, Hakimpur Upazila, Dinajpur, said Mohammad Masud, a geoscientist working with the Geological Survey of Bangladesh (GSB), a government organisation dedicated to the discovery of natural mineral resources. This was disclosed in a programme last week arranged by the GSB and sponsored by the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources aiming at exchange of ideas with national experts and academicians about the discove
One Australian state is set to take the lead in raising the legal smoking age from 18 to 21 - and the rest of the country could follow.
Tasmania is introducing a bill into state parliament this year which would prohibit anyone under 21 years of age from buying cigarettes.
Similar laws were previously introduced in one United States town and proved so successful in reducing smoking rates in younger people that the entire country followed suit.
Tasmania is introducing a bill into state parliament this year which would prohibit anyone under 21-years-old from buying cigarettes (file image)
Tobacco use was halved among high school students in town of Needham Massachusetts where the law was first introduced - plunging by 47 per cent.
Tasmania could become the first state in Australia to raise smoking age to 21
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Smoking rates in the US town of Needham dropped by almost half when the legal age was increased to 21.
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Anti-smoking campaigners hope Tasmania could this year set off a chain of events that would see the legal smoking age increased to 21 across the country.
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A bill that would ban the sale of cigarettes in Tasmania to people aged under 21 will be re-introduced to Parliament this year
Tobacco 21 legislation was enacted across the United States in December 2019
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Rabin Martin Appoints Robert Mallett as Chief Executive Officer, Jeffrey Sturchio Continues as Chairman
January 7, 2021 GMT
NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Rabin Martin, a leading global health strategy consultancy, announced today that Robert L. Mallett will assume the role of Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. As CEO, Mallett will guide Rabin Martin’s strategy and drive the company’s progress toward improving health for underserved populations globally. Jeffrey L. Sturchio, Rabin Martin’s CEO since July 2014, will continue in an advisory role as Chairman.