Sentences with phrase «commercial crop»

In some countries, as we shall see, chiles are an important cultivated commercial crop.

Currently, there are about 30 commercial crops worldwide.

There are many different varieties of the fruit, however the Hass variety accounts for over 90 % of commercial crop [1].

The article said that the first commercial crop of pimientos de Padrón was being grown by David Winsberg of Happy Quail Farms in East Palo Alto.

Pineapple is one of the main commercial crops grown in tropical countries, according to Purdue University.

Codena Inc. is leading the charge to develop novel weed - based pesticides for use on commercial crops and recreational turf.

If oil - intensive algae were cultivated on a broad scale — the kind of scale now used for other commercial crops — they could eventually replace the 70 percent of the U.S. oil supply used for transportation in the form of jet fuel, gasoline, and diesel, according to Weeks.

Glyphosate is used on many commercial crops, including soy, corn and canola.

8 Nov 2016: Kniss AR, Savage SD, Jabbour R (2016) Correction: Commercial Crop Yields Reveal Strengths and Weaknesses for Organic Agriculture in the United States.

Honeybee colonies are vanishing, leaving commercial crops from avocados to oranges unpollinated.

To start, they are studying how commercial crops, including tomatoes, wheat and almonds, can use nitrogen more efficiently without leaving excess nitrate to percolate into aquifers or run off fields.

The findings may be useful for conserving habitat and pollinators that help in commercial crop production, he added.

Modern breeding has resuscitated grocery store tomatoes with an influx of wild genes; in the past 50 years, researchers have bred back some 40 disease - resistance genes into commercial crops.

Topsoils continually used to farm commercial crops may be depleted of these, and the only plants that will have access to them are those with long root systems which can mine the subsoils, like dandelions.

After introducing Round Up (a broad - spectrum herbicide developed by Monsanto and used to kill weeds that threaten commercial crops) in the 1970s, Monsanto quickly introduced Round Up - Ready seeds; crops that are resistant to the main ingredient in Round Up that kills off pests.

Additionally, it has been rated as one of the safest commercial crops in terms of pesticide exposure, 3 so there's no real need to spend extra money on organic avocados, unless you can afford it.

o Use Monsanto seed for planting only a single commercial crop.

- The loss of the quintessentially Irish potato as an important commercial crop as a result of harsh droughts; - Large differences in rainfall: up to 12 % more during the winters and up to 12 % less during the summers; - The southeast may develop elements of a Mediterranean climate; - More frequent bog bursts, which occur when heat lifts peat bogs and sends them sliding down hillsides

Mercury exposure is also ongoing from contaminated water supplies, commercial crops grown from seeds treated with mercurial fungicides, agricultural soil polluted with mercurial pesticides and fertilizers, and air contaminated from a variety of industrial sources, including coal - burning power plants and crematorium smokestacks, which spew mercury vapors from the amalgam fillings contained in corpses.

In the U.S., bats help significantly to cut down on the population of an insect called the «corn earworm moth,» which is known for damaging a number of commercial crops.

Unlike other commercial crops, Brede points out, grass is a perennial.

«But many commercial crops are sensitive to soil salinity and this can cause major losses to crop yields.

Citation: Kniss AR, Savage SD, Jabbour R (2016) Commercial Crop Yields Reveal Strengths and Weaknesses for Organic Agriculture in the United States.

This was a surprising finding and suggests that if reproduced in the field at larger scales, could have wide implications for the use of biochar on commercial crops.

Last week's harvest is the first commercial crop of a genetically engineered oilseed plant.

«Most farmers grew a commercial crop — usually bananas — supplemented with other, smaller, cash crops, like tomatoes, cucumbers or zucchinis.

In Australia, initial interest in bamboo in the 80s and 90s as a commercial crop had resulted in 200 hectares under plantation by 2002.

The locals each have their favorites but unanimously agree that they taste better than commercial crops grown for standardization over flavor.

In 2014, the state created a pilot program to research hemp as a commercial crop.

In 2014 field trials of the new High Oleic Hemp are being rolled out across Europe in order to establish agronomic performance and yield under a range of environmental conditions in advance of launching a commercial crop.

The plant, on which monarchs lay their eggs, used to spring up in between rows of corn, soybeans, and other commercial crops.

«I spent two summers as a commercial crop scout before I went into Extension, and walking through tasseling corn in the heat of summer is not a pleasant task,» Bowman said.

At Monsanto, the practice has become so common that, in a recent paper, the firm said «molecular marker assisted breeding is becoming our conventional breeding process,» noting that many of its commercial crops are derived with the process.

In 1996, corn became the first commercial crop to carry Bt, protecting it from the European corn borer.

In addition, commercial crops are treated with an array of pesticides and herbicides, 150 of which include fluoride according to the Organic Consumers Association.

«Dogs are neither a commercial crop nor commodity and should not be indiscriminately or irresponsibly mass produced.

In 2005, the Department of Commercial Crops, Fruits and Forestry of Zanzibar, in cooperation with the Turku Geographical Society of Finland and the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), started the Kiwengwa Ecotourism Project to develop these unique caves as an ecotourism destination.

The rest, «and other demands satisfied», considers the idea of manufacturing venomous cabbage to limit the usage of pesticides in commercial crops, a globally maligned practice.

Vote Hemp appreciates your support of our work in educating the public about the environmental and economic benefits of industrial hemp and our efforts to lobby for changes in federal and state laws to allow American farmers to grow low - THC industrial hemp as a commercial crop.

Hemp was a commercial crop in California in the early 1900s.

As you know, on February 13, 2007, Congressman Ron Paul of Texas introduced H.R. 1009, which would repeal the federal ban on the cultivation of industrial hemp as a commercial crop.

Vote Hemp appreciates your support of our work in educating the public about the environmental and economic benefits of industrial hemp and our efforts to lobby for changes in federal and state laws to allow American farmers to grow industrial hemp as a commercial crop.

Ask around and do your research about local crops grown, what sort of livestock does well in your climate and whether farm operations are mainly acreages and hobby farms or commercial crops, ranches or recreational.