Sentences with phrase «before planting a crop»

Gill said identifying the PHS gene creates a greater assurance before planting a crop that it will be resistant to preharvest sprouting once it grows a year later.

Not exact matches

Well before modern genetic engineering technology was around, humans found ways to tweak the DNA of plants by zapping it with chemicals or radiation — resulting in crops that are not considered GMOs.

Untreated manure of all types has the potential to pose a food safety risk, and farmers, organic and conventional alike, have traditionally mitigated this risk by applying manure to their fields early in the season before they have planted the crop.

Fava bean plants are a great source of nitrogen for the vegetable garden so we grow them as a cover crop for that purpose, and reap the benefits of fava bean salads, soup or spread before we dig them under.

A lunar calendar is used to study the cosmos before planting and harvesting crops.

Once again family legend appears to be an undocumented recollection, for Edmund could not have grown a crop in 1863 before fleeing to Texas whereupon after returning to Louisiana in April of 1865, in an unsuccessful attempt to revive his banking career, he then planted seeds given to him upon his return.

For example, crops could be genetically engineered to give farmers a visual warning of problems such as drought stress, before the plants suffer obvious physical symptoms.

Reliable El Nino forecasts can allow farmers to choose the right crops to plant months before the rains fall to nourish them.

The age - old practice of turning the soil before planting a new crop is a leading cause of farmland degradation.

An entire lettuce crop can be lost if the plants respond to early warm temperatures and «bolt,» producing flowers and seeds before marketable heads of lettuce have formed.

«Before transgenic plants containing PAT will get clearance, there must be studies to see what concentrations of the herbicide are present in harvested crops, as well as what chemicals are produced in the crop when PAT deactivates Basta.

This innovation in crop production builds on the wealth of fundamental research carried out by Professor Dame Caroline Dean and her lab on vernalisation — the need for some plants to experience a period of cold weather before they can flower.

But it will take at least 5 years before these plants can be stacked up against Monsanto's glyphosate - tolerant crops, predicts Jonathan Jones of the John Innes Centre in Norwich, U.K..

But this forest was here long before the people began cutting down the trees, planting crops, and corralling the resident chimps toward their last stand.

Stem rust, named for the blackening pustules that infect plant stems, caused devastating crop epidemics and famine for centuries before being tamed by fungicides and resistance genes.

That degree of tolerance could well allow some crop plants to be planted where they couldn't grow before.

While modern research has shown this does increase crop yields, unless the faeces are composted for many months before being added to the fields, it can result in the spread of parasite eggs that can survive in the grown plants.

There is a fable retold in the excellent manifestation book A Wish Can Change Your Life about a farmer who is constantly tending his crop — always re-tilling the soil and digging up the seeds he's planted before they have time to take root because he is anxious for the harvest.

Eating paleo means eating foods that humans ate before they learned how to plant crops.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

And finally (phew I am long - winded), in our homestead planning we do plan on planting fruit and nut trees right away and would most likely have these before a crop of grains.

Once you've planted everything, you need to fertilise; probably a few times, before your crops are ready to harvest and sell.

An important learning was to plant only varieties of crops that are harvested early in the area so that we could collect and eat our lessons before school got out for the summer.

We dropped him at his farm but not before we passed his father & brother - in - law on the treacherous road riding in a horse drawn buggy and passing young boys plowing the fields getting ready to plant the next crop and young girls weeding the vegetable garden, all by hand, it was magical.

Strawberries are spring crops, so be sure to plant some strawberry seeds as soon as you get home from the festival to harvest them twice before the end of the season.

But theirs is actually a digital doppelgänger, and the images of farmers planting, sowing and harvesting their crops as the seasons change will slowly unfold in real time over the course of the next 1,000 years — positing that life, and nature, will continue as it has before, or, at least, in digital form.

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.

For folks who enjoyed my piece on gardens and carbon sequestration, Peter Bane offered this practical advice on enhancing carbon storage: engineer «soil climaxes», and lots of them — meaning we need to grow plants, be they cover crops, annual food crops, or perennials, trees and shrubs, and then we need to cut them back before they flower.

Rangarajan mentioned new satellite - navigating robots, for example, that boost efficiency and cut soil loss by dispersing seed for a cover crop between rows of corn plants well before the corn is harvested.

As a result, plants may bloom before their needed pollinators are available, and aggressive insects can cause damage to food crops.

Genetically engineered crops have a gene from another plant inserted into them to give them some ability they didn't have before.

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Carrots I'll plant a crop of carrots early in the season with my tomatoes before the tomatoes take off.

Xiong's full crop will have to be weighed before authorities can determine the exact dollar value of the plants, but investigators have estimated that there were approximately 2000 pounds of poppy plants, with a value of about $ 500 million dollars.

• Feed and tend to livestock and ensure that they are kept safe at all times • Use milk machines to milk cows and sheep by ensuring that proper procedures are taken into account • Operate tractors and harvesters and ensure that their maintenance and repair is done on time • Apply pesticides and fertilizers to crops in appropriate quantities and direct the work of farm hands and seasonal help • Design and lay down irrigation networks and use irrigation equipment to ensure that water is provided to every crop layer • Enlist the help of veterinary doctors to ensure that livestock is vaccinated on time and to ensure the overall health and wellbeing of animals • Dig and plant seeds and handle seedlings transplant by keeping in mind weather patterns • Harvest fruits and vegetables and ensure that they are kept safely stored before it is time for them to be marketed

Planting a fall garden late summer ensures crops mature before freezing weather, especially when you choose varieties that mature quickly; information about days to maturity can be found on plant tags.