Sentences with phrase «warm season crops»

Peas are a cool season crop and most bean varieties are warm season crops but both grow on vines.

Warm season crops continue to suffer.

Not exact matches

Warm - season crops are fruiting plants, such as peppers, cucumbers, eggplant and tomatoes, and will be harvested when students return in the fall.

The fall is is well known for many things... the falling leaves, the cool crisp air, harvesting the last crops of the season, warm comfort food... need I go on?

Growers blame the crop loss on an unusually warm spring followed by late - season freezes and this summer's drought.

Wheat will still grow even if the rainfall season is shortened, but a warmer climate will severely harm crops such as chickpeas, walnuts and peaches in their ability to produce yields.

Warmer temperatures could extend the growing season in northern latitudes, and an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide could improve the water use efficiency of some crops.

«For example, with the expansion of subtropical drylands as temperate drylands warm cool season crops such as wheat and potato would no longer be economically viable,» says Scott Wilson.

«Warm - season crops require a lot of irrigation water,» says Kaffka.

The authors added that biofabrics may be most useful in cool - season crops or warmer climates and in high tunnels where soil warming is usually adequate, but where moisture conservation and weed control are still critical.

According to David Mortensen, professor of weed and applied plant ecology, Penn State, synthetic - auxin herbicides are usually used early in the growing season, but with the new transgenic crop varieties coming on the market, these herbicides will be used later when temperatures are warmer and more plant species are leafed out.

Tempted by the warming seasons, Loweth took a plunge into soybeans a few years ago, but events proved that to be a premature move for the warm - climate crop.

While warmer weather extends the growing season, it also changes the growing zones while also allowing for the survival of agricultural pests and weeds that normally can not endure the cold, putting crops more at risk for damage.

Longer growing seasons, warmer temperatures, and more atmospheric carbon dioxide are creating ideal crop conditions.

A recent analysis looked at historical damage to food crops from high temperatures during the growing season alongside projections of future warming.

Bullet Points: Longer growing seasons, warmer temperatures, and more atmospheric carbon dioxide are creating ideal crop conditions.

Cropped with a deep V back and single button closure, this blouse is the perfect top for the warm spring season.

To keep warm and to keep it season appropriate, I slipped this old Dolce Vita crop sweater over this cami creating the illusion and silhouette of a peplum top.

While a crop top is typically associated with the warmer seasons, this one screams winter because of the mock - neck style and velvet fabric.

Staying warm just got a lot sweeter thanks to the adorable mohair sweaters cropping up this season.

The warmer weather calls for palazzo pants and crop tops and festival season is so close I can taste it.

Add a cropped sweater over high waisted trousers or a maxi skirt to transition this warm weather trend into a fall season staple.

The crop top and skirt set is a good option for warmer seasons and casual outings.

Of course, this still doesn't fill in many missing bits of information (such as the knowledge that even if parts of Canada or Siberia get warmer, they will not necessarily have arable soil, or growing seasons of the proper duration (i.e. number of months with a minimum amount of sunlight per day) to make them viable for crops.

While many standard garden vegetables can not be planted outside or started from seed until the soil is fully warmed and the threat of frost is past, a variety of other cool season spring crops can be started right now, giving you a jump start on the gardening season and putting food on your plate long before the summer vegetables come in.

-- Higher CO2 concentrations will increase crop yields significantly — Warmer temperatures will increase growing season, plus add to overall arable surface area

The drop in mean temperatures since 1950 in the Northern Hemisphere has been sufficient, for example, to shorten Britain's growing season for crops by two weeks... The first half of this century has apparently been the warmest period since the «hot spell» between 5,000 and 7,000 years ago immediately following the last ice age.»

Twice as much CO2 and a modest 1 degree Celsius warming would benefit the world in many ways, extending growing seasons for agriculture, increasing crop yields, and lessening human mortality, which increases in cold weather.

Some growers salvaged a decent yield by diversifying their crops — and taking advantage of a late - season warm spell to do some last - minute harvesting.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

Furthermore, double - cropping can become an alternative to current practices in areas with very long growing seasons which are also shown to increase with a warming climate.

Global Warming floods and droughts crops, increases insect and fungal growth, increases the spread of said non-indigenous vermin, alters the range of crops to where geology and infrastructure (such as irrigation and farms) is not favourable (north of the Southern Manitoba bread - basket is boreal forest too acidic for crops and north even further is only accessible by winter roads)...... these problems are potentially solvable, but certainly as soon as Chinese Himalayan meltwater dries up, or as soon as a Monsoon season fails because of Global Warming, the next decade of cost savings by following the Republican / Conservative geoengineering «plan»... such preventable events in the midst of an economic golden age will be looked on by future generations as evil.

Strong evidence suggests that crops are easily damaged by high temperatures during their germination season, and that warming over the last three decades has already reduced crop yields.

You are unable to demonstrate based on empirical data that these temperatures will be harmful — and there are some indications that a slightly warmer temperature (especially in the higher latitudes, where GH warming is supposed to oiccur) will increase arable land surface across N. America, and Eurasia, lengthen growing seasons and result in higher overall crop yields.

Risk of it being a degree or so warmer on average, and hence longer growing season for crops and fewer deaths from cold in the winter?

On cold nights, turbulence stirs the lower atmosphere and keeps nighttime temperatures around the crops warmer, potentially warding off early fall frosts and extending the growing season.

The second is that when Lake Erie freezes over temperatures don't warm up prematurely so crops are not damaged coming out of dormancy before the last killing frost of the season.

Would warmed nighttime temperatures allow them to plant the crop earlier in the season?

Historical records (at least in Europe) clearly show that the Middle Ages was unusually warm, with long growing seasons and generally rich harvests (someone apparently forgot to tell Medieval farmers that they should have smaller crops in warmer weather).