Sentences with phrase «cold weather crop»

I know a lot of you have probably already moved on to tomatoes and zucchini, but here in Minnesota, we're still getting mostly greens, radishes and other cold weather crops at the market.

Foxtail and proso millet used to be cultivated on the Tibetan plateau 4,000 years ago when it was warmer, but as the climate got colder, they were abandoned for colder weather crops.

There models have also shown that in Tibet where warming temperatures have affected people's ability to grow staple cold weather crops and raise yaks, two types of millet could thrive there.

Not exact matches

Cold weather is playing havoc with crops and delaying planting.

Documented famines with millions of deaths occurred during the little ice age because the cold weather killed the crops.

This is mostly due to the languages they speak, kind of food they eat, kind of crops that grow there, how is the water availability, what is the kind of weather — hot, cold, etc. and other factors.

If you want to worry about the climate, worry about colder weather and lower crop yields as the sun remains unusually quiet.

The skunks are no longer in full rut and the threat of crop damaging cold weather has passed.

The Paglione Estate Winery is located in Ontario and the cold weather can make growing crops a challenge.

Colder weather in Mexico has resulted in a lot of lost crops and higher overall produce prices.

Early warm weather made the crops sprout ahead of time; then a sudden burst of cold killed nearly everything in sight.

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.

In the normally mild south, Atlanta recorded its coldest weather on this date in 44 years, as the temperature dropped to 6 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 14 degrees Celsius), while temperatures in northern Florida also briefly dropped below freezing, though the state's citrus crop was unharmed, according to a major growers» group.

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.

A «natural» diet would mean spending at least half the year eating nuts, winter squashes, tubers and the like... Meat is a great winter «crop» because the weather is cool or cold and the meat is preserved by the cold.

When the cold weather subsides, you can even wear them with tank tops and crop tops if that's your thing!

If the weather is cold, throw over a black leather jacket or a cropped, fitted parka coat and a knitted beret.

Style your dresses for colder weather by layering a cropped sweater over the top.

An Asos checked sweater, cropped pants and cool shoes give the actress's cold - weather look a little extra personality at the premiere of Stockholm, Pennsylvania.

Guys, take note: the hot sweater shape for this season's cold weather is the boxy crop!

In cropped gray hair and mannish pants, Mirren is an androgynous, asexual sorceress whose cold, weathered face recalls that she has acquired her magic the hard way, plugging away at thick books while insisting on her right to study in a man's world.

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Our best friends should not be relegated to lives of neglect, starvation, untreated illness and injury, mutilated feet from constant living on wire in quarters too small for movement, living in the stench of ammonia and eating their own excrement, drinking filthy water, encrusted with fleas and mange, making futile attempts to protect their dying infants from extreme weather (both hot and cold) and having those who live torn from them unweaned, sometimes being abandoned to die slowly in wire cages — all in order to provide a «cash crop» for irresponsible and unfeeling humans.

But as I understand the IPCC claims, the postulated future GH warming is supposed to occur primarily at higher latitudes, rather than in the warmer regions today, so it appears to me that this would present a «win - win» situation: lower heating costs, fewer cold weather deaths, increased high latitide crop yields, etc. while presenting no new problems for the warmer regions.

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.

Large failure of crops due to drought, disease, nuclear wars, colder unexpected weather, etc an climate change catastrophic outcome?

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

May 2016: Crop losses due to late cold weather.

The researcher's methodology was simple — estimate the number of winter days cold enough to kill pest insect eggs and larva and the number of days warm enough to allow the pests to grow and eat and compare that to today's weather and crop losses.

South Florida didn't have to wait for a climate disaster - months of disastrously cold weather which killed native fish, wildlife, and crops - to be inundated with unpleasantness.

«If we go back and look at those couple of 70 - degree days in Boston a couple weeks back, or this record - breaking cold snap that's destroyed a large part of the citrus fruit crop in California, that's weather,» Mann told LiveScience.