Sentences with phrase «by planting crops»

It is up to you to revive the town by planting crops, raising animals and adding features like trees, street lights, bushes, etc..

However, he said, the Farm Bureau does recognize that a cap - and - trade system can offer benefits to growers, who sequester carbon by planting crops and trees.

By Marie Rohde The Pabst Farms developer slashed its property tax bill this year by planting crops on 145 acres planned for commercial development, despite restrictions banning farming.

Summary: «When a group of Burmese refugees join the congregation, the pastor of a failing Anglican church attempts to aid them by planting crops and enlisting the help of the community.»

Not exact matches

Israeli startup Prospera recently attracted $ 7 million to fund its approach, which is to install cameras along with other sensors in fields and compare crops «leaf by leaf» with its database of thousands of plants to identify problems like pests, parasites and nutrient deficiencies.

A later link, also supplied by Syngenta, is advanced crop protection products to help plants produce more food with minimum damage to the environment.

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.

Late in the week, Statistics Canada released planting plans by farmers for the 2018 crops.

He violates Lev.19: 19 by planting two different crops in the same field, as does his wife by wearing garments made of two different kinds of thread (cotton / polyester blend).

Every field is carefully fenced in with paling formed of the mid-ribs of the palmyra - leaf, or by rows of prickly plants, aloes, cactus, euphorbias, and others; and every one is divided into small beds, each containing a different crop; but the most frequent and valuable crops are the ingredients for the preparation of curry; such as onions and chilies, which are exported to all parts of the coast and carried in large quantities into the interior.

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.

In 1986 Bob planted his first organic certified crop and was farming the entire farm organically by 1989.

Organic farming puts carbon back into soils by keeping them covered with plants, increasing crop diversity, composting and carefully planned grazing.

In addition, all Golden Rice field trials in the Philippines are conducted under permits issued by the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology R&D, after they established that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and the environment.

The field trials were permitted by the Department of Agriculture Bureau of Plant Industry (DA - BPI), the national regulatory authority in the Philippines for crop biotechnology research and development, after establishing that the trials will pose no significant risks to human health and environment.

Case Study 3: Plantwise — An Innovative Approach to Reduce Crop Losses by Sharing Plant Health Knowledge Dr Washington Otieno, Plantwise Programme Executive, CABI

A research project funded by the European Union found that the diversity of landscape and farming systems was greater in organic farms, regarding land use types, crops, livestock, plantings (hedges, solitary shrubs, trees) and flora.

Our mission is to conserve and promote America's culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.

Additional keywords: crop improvement, crop modelling, G × E, genotype by environment interaction, plant breeding, trait simulation.

Agroforestry practices provide cocoa farmers with resilience to climate change by promoting the planting of income generating hardwoods and other crops among cacao tress well as conservation of forests for both shade and soil health.

We conserve and promote America's culturally diverse but endangered garden and food crop heritage for future generations by collecting, growing, and sharing heirloom seeds and plants.

This is due to the more diverse crop rotations and the longer period the soil is covered by plants.

The following year's crop will produce some hybrids, which are discernible by extensive pod variation in shape and size on the same plant.

Crop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly appliCrop insurance provides growers with protection against crop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applicrop production losses caused by drought, hail, excessive moisture, earthquake, fire, wildlife, failure of irrigation water supply or insects and plant disease (unless control measures have been insufficiently or improperly applied).

At Clif Bar, the company is tackling the yield gap by investing in plant breeding, contributing to an agriculture fund that helps provide technical assistance to educate growers and investing in infrastructure that will help reduce the distance that organic producers must transport their crops from the farm gate to the aggregator or processor, which is a significantly longer distance than for most conventional producers, Dillion said.

A 2014 report to the UK Council for Science and Technology, for instance, concluded that «it is not appropriate to have a regulatory framework that is based on the premise that GM crops are more hazardous than crop varieties produced by conventional plant breeding», citing two decades of extensive studies that have not revealed significant risks to human, animal or environmental health.

Genetically modified crops are plants in which genes are altered in the laboratory to make them perform in a very specific way, such as not being harmed by certain herbicides.

I was lucky because I planted early and managed to harvest all the fruit by mid-March, but you can harvest until May and those who planted a little later, like my best friend, have lost nearly all their crop.

Landowners can practice conservation by planting seedlings and wildflowers to provide wildlife food and habitat, shelter crops and landscape, reduce heating / cooling expenses, protect water quality, reduce air pollution, and stabilize erodible land.

What's more, the rest of the crop — the vast black - market portion — is planted on public or tribal lands by people who ignore the environmental consequences of their activity.

This can have a dramatic impact on crops by reducing their yields and can endanger some species of plant altogether.

A new understanding as to how plants defend themselves against some pathogens that cause crop diseases is proposed by researchers from the University of Hertfordshire to help scientists breed new, more successful disease - resistant agricultural crops.

By exploiting new molecular and genetic insights, the research, done in collaboration with Pierre de Wit from Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands, provides a better understanding of the defense system of crop plants against the damaging pathogens that grow in the spaces between plant cells.

Tomato plants deter attacks from a parasitic plant that's known to ravage crops by detecting one of its peptides, a new study reveals.

Built by Precision Hawk of Indianapolis, the craft's thermal camera is meant to find outbreaks of insects and crop disease, which show up as hotspots when stressed plants lose their ability to regulate heat.

By turning crops such as corn, sugarcane and palm oil into biofuels — whether ethanol, biodiesel, or something else — proponents hope to reap the benefits of the carbon soaked up as the plants grow to offset the carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted when the resulting fuel is burned.

«There are a lot of different pathways by which temperature can negatively affect crop yield: soil moisture deficit [or] heat directly damaging the plants and interfering with their reproductive process.»

Using computer - generated test crops of dwarf wheat and soybeans, a team led by Federico Maggi at the University of Sydney in Australia simulated how these plants take up nutrients from human...

Crops and weeds from this plant family, which includes tobacco, produce chemicals such as nicotine that deter feeding by most insects, but not M. sexta, which makes its physiology especially interesting to scientists.

Planting refuges near Bt crops reduces the chances that two resistant insects will mate with each other, making it more likely they will breed with a susceptible mate, yielding offspring that are killed by the Bt crop.

Moreover, farmers may be able to adapt to many of the changes by altering planting times or the crops they grow, says plant physiologist Jerry Hatfield of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Ames, Iowa.

Although relatively new, they have become widely used because they are taken up by all parts of a plant, giving comprehensive protection against crop pests.

Some crop plants have recently been engineered by modifying their nuclear genomes to produce dsRNA against certain insects.

By using an intensified management system that included increased plant population, transgenic (Bt trait) insect resistance, strobilurin - containing fungicide, balanced crop nutrition (phosphorus - sulfur - zinc), and supplemental side - dressed nitrogen, the researchers saw a yield increase of 28 percent more corn grain compared to that of a standard management system.

The petition, which is the first organized by individual scientists in support of GM technology, yielded more than 1,400 signatures from plant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&rplant science experts supporting the American Society of Plant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.&rPlant Biologists» (ASPB) position statement on genetically modified (GM) crops, which states that they are «an effective tool for advancing food security and reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture.»

Among proposed changes: more widespread adoption of so - called no - till farming, a practice that involves leaving unharvested crop stalks and other plant matter behind in the field undisturbed by plows and other soil - agitating instruments.

«We hope that the consensus among plant scientists presented here is heard by policymakers, the business community, and, more importantly, the general public and initiates a new conversation on how best to implement GM tools to improve crops for sustainable agriculture.

Corn yields with today's hybrids do have the potential to increase with the application of protection chemicals and by making crop nutrients more plant - available,» she said.

Today, much of the abandoned farmland where second - generation bioenergy crops could grow is degraded and dominated by invasive plants, says Phil Robertson, an ecologist at Michigan State University's W. K. Kellogg Biological Station in Hickory Corners.

Once harvested, these crops would get ferried by truck or train to power plants and other industrial facilities where, along with waste from food crops and timber harvests, they would be burned for heat or electricity, or converted to ethanol and other liquid biofuels.