Sentences with phrase «best crop yields»

«Phosphate is vital for best crop yields, but global supply is limited, could peak in 30 years.»

«Plants «hedge their bets» in germination: The route to better crop yields.»

Certainly climate change does not help every region equally, but careful studies predict overall benefits — fewer storms, more rain, better crop yields, longer growing seasons, milder winters, and lower heating costs in colder climates.

That's pretty high - level endorsement, but one I've abandoned after thinking it over and concluding that cellulose etc. is needed to maintain soil humus for better crop yield.

Not exact matches

On the flip side, agriculture - linked funds were again some of the best - performing ETFs this past week, as the commodities markets continued to rally on deteriorating crop yield prospects due to the ongoing droughtlike weather across the U.S. grain belt.

Fears that the current crop of earnings may be as good as it gets and that higher bond yields will sap demand for equities, all...

Fears that the current crop of earnings may be as good as it gets and that higher bond yields will sap demand...

Cassava yields well in poor soils, is drought - resistant and the roots give food security during droughts and famine making it an ideal crop for poorer areas in the world.

But some seed fell on good soil and yielded a good crop (Matt.

When sown in good soil, however, the seed yielded a crop, «some a hundredfold, some sixty, and some thirty.»

The spiritual openness of those people 2000 years ago meant that, as in the Parable of the Sower, the message was heard and it grew tall and strong in the hearts of those who heard it, yielding a good crop.

We also help them with improved farming methods, environmentally responsible practices, crop yield increases, and producing better coffee.

However, the result was not a true reflection of the company's performance as it actually had a very strong year with cotton crop yields as high as 15 bales per hectare — well above the top 20 per cent of Australian growers.

Watch and learn about how producers and researchers are experimenting with organic apples, cranberries, tomatoes, strawberries, cucumbers, hops and nutraceuticals to protect these crops from weeds and get good yields.

In 1985, Vietnam achieved self - sufficiency in rice and then went on to continue to increase its production due to supportive government policies, and its adoption of better crop management strategies and new high - yielding rice varieties.

Stage is set for another good Napa Valley wine grape crop: By mid-June the stage had been set for a good balance of proper grape ripening and adequate yields this year in the vineyards of Napa Valley...

There are many studies showing that after three or four years of organic farming farms can equal, if not better the yield of conventional crops, depending on the sector.

Because organics are more vulnerable to crop failure, we work with a team of agronomists and researchers to help nurture growing practices that result in better yields and ensure a consistency of supply.

Technologies that will be presented at the exhibition include Gamaya, which has been designed to improve the efficiency and sustainability of industrial farms, as well as new sorting solutions that have the potential to increase the yield of the maize crop.

But now the increasing demand in the market for both the green and dried article is attracting the attention of farmers who have an eye for crops that do not fail and that yield good returns.

PARIS — Organic farming may yield up to a third less of some crop types, according to a study proposing a hybrid with conventional agriculture as the best way to feed the world without destroying it.

A vibrant time of year when foods yield their best crops throughout the United States and Brazil, the expert Gaucho chefs at Fogo have hand - selected and crafted new recipes featuring fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables combined in some unique ways.

He explained that the open system farming would be used to grow the crop, adding that improved varieties would be made available to the farmers so as to produce better yield.

Coaxing more bees, beetles and other pollinators to buzz around small fields could on average boost crop yields enough to close the gap between the worst and the best of these farms by almost a quarter, says agroecologist Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi of...

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

This would be good for human health and would improve crop yields, confirming the additional benefits of mitigation,» says co-author William Collins from the University of Reading, UK.

Strategies to adapt could include managing soil moisture content through increasing irrigation or mulching, choosing better vine - stock roots or managing crop yield, said Webb.

The new crops which replace the poppy, such as wheat or peas, are not such as will give as good a honey yield.

The effects of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers on crop yields are well - researched, of course.

Adjei's research determined which type of sludge works best and demonstrated that sludge actually improves the yield of Bahia grass, a common forage crop.

As demonstrated by the scheme, retailers» engagement with growers on water projects can help growers achieve better quality crops and higher yield.

The researchers are collaborating with an engineering company, Intrinsyx Technologies, to show this same beneficial relationship between microbes and agricultural plants, with crops given the beneficial microbes yielding more vegetables and responding better in dry, hot weather.

Eventually these same farmers will likely demand still better yields that will leave an opening for acceptance of genetically modified crops.

The best hope for improving African crop yields today would be to borrow technology from the decades - old green revolution that transformed agriculture in Asia and Latin America.

Within years, genetic modification had increased crop yields by 50 per cent and created plants that were resistant to drought and pests, as well as being high in vitamins and minerals and able to produce their own nitrogen, so that they needed less fertiliser.

«There's substantial disagreement on possible future yields of energy crops,» he said, as well as questions on the consequences of growing biofuels on water supply.

In predicting how climate will affect irrigated crop yields in the future, the researchers also consider factors such as population and economic growth, as well as competing demands for water from various socioeconomic sectors, which are themselves projected to change as the climate warms.

First author Onur Oztas, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in the Sancar lab, said, «DNA damage accumulating in a plant will impair its growth and development, so boosting the excision repair system could be a good strategy for improving crop yields.»

«So, the idea,» she said, «was they did everything right to produce their best crop — their best seed, they fertilized it, they irrigated it — whatever they needed to do, but they just didn't control the weeds in the untreated plots, so we could see what kind of yield loss impact that would have.»

A 16 - year study was used for robust estimates of the yield potential on organically managed crop land in southern Wisconsin as well as nitrous oxide and methane emissions and soil carbon.

An end goal, he says, is to predict early in the season how weeds will impede crop yields, so farmers can make better decisions on how to manage them.

Do the crops have a good yield in their area?

For corporate farmers, the promise of such genetically modified crops seems clear — higher yields, superior quality, better nutrition and less need for spraying highly toxic and expensive pesticides.

And growers need to have a high degree of confidence that their investment in a crop will provide a good yield, with enough profit to make the crop competitive with other crop choices they have available.

Professor Martin A. J. Parry of the Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) said: «Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis — the way crops turn carbon dioxide in our atmosphere into everything we can eat — may seem ambitious but for us it offers the best opportunity for producing the scale of change in crop yield that we need to feed a growing global population in a changing world climate.»

«Crop protection products such as fungicides help farmers grow quality crops free of disease and achieve better yields, which keeps prices low for consumers,» said Mike Leggett, senior director of environmental policy at CropLife America.

Farmers eager to increase their crop yields turned to commercial beekeepers, who offered up massive wooden hives stocked with queen bees genetically selected to produce colonies of good pollinators.

The technique is well established for many crops, and particle bombardment is less predictable, often yielding multiple, fragmented insertions of the new gene.

Using high - performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop yields enough to feed a planet expected to have 9.5 billion people on it by 2050, researchers report in the journal Cell.

The feat of introducing nitrogen fixation into corn and sorghum — or other genes that allow a crop to require less nitrogen — alone would cut costs and pollution markedly as well as drive higher yields.