Sentences with phrase «cut wheat yields»

«Global warming will cut wheat yields, research shows,» The Guardian, December 23, 2014.

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The disease can cut wheat yields 80 percent and could spread to southern Asia and southern Africa from spots where it has been found in Africa and the Middle East.

The soil - borne fungal disease can cut wheat yields by as much as 30 percent when conditions favor it.

Not exact matches

A new paper from scientists at the John Innes Centre in Norwich explains why plant breeders have found it difficult to produce wheat varieties which combine high yield and good resistance to Septoria, a disease in wheat which can cut yield losses by up to 50 %.

(The worrying precedents are a drought in 1988 to 1989 that cut yields of corn by an estimated 12 % worldwide and soybeans by 8.5 %, and a 2002 to 2003 drought that afflicted wheat and rice to a lesser extent.)

«Wheat research indicates rise in mean temperature would cut yields.»

Farmers don't want to take a risk in losing their entire wheat and barley crop, so they will take a cut in yield and quality by using glyphosate a few weeks before harvest, and then harvest the crop early.

India's wheat crop is already hitting temperature limits, because it's a few hot days or nights — not the average but the extremes — that cut final crop yield drastically.