Sentences with phrase «crop at harvest time»

For the first time in over 125 years sugar cane farmers, in one region of Australia will not burn their crop at harvest time.

It's a bit like being in a farm co-op, where you pay up front and get a share of the crops at harvest time.

Not exact matches

While this report is still early in the stages at the time of writing this, estimates say that the harvest of this crop coming from Mexico is only about half of what was expected for the year.

«The whole crop doesn't harvest at one time, it's different than vegetables.

Harvesting berries is unique because the crop ripens at different times.

In wealthier nations, agronomists and other scientists have been noticing changes in harvest times for at least one crop in particular: wine grapes.

«With switchgrass, for example, frequently you can not harvest the first year's crop because it takes a long time for the root system to establish,» says study author Philip Benfey, a professor of biology at Duke University and director of Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy Center for Systems Biology.

In the 1950s, a soil - dwelling fungus destroyed Latin American crops of the most popular variety at the time, Gros Michel; it was replaced by a resistant variety, Cavendish, which now makes up more than 40 % of harvests worldwide.

One problem with the crop as a power source is that it is all harvested at one time in the year.

Crops harvested from organically managed fields at times have pesticide residues.

At it's peak harvest time a garden requires constant picking as many crops will turn to seed and stop producing.

Yet, even under these circumstances, Walter is able to buy a tractor to replace the horses, which, like most farmers at the time, he uses to plow the soil, plant, the seeds and harvest the crops.

For example, a farmer planting corn in the spring will sell corn futures at the price he wishes to sell his crop by harvest time in the fall.

As a hybrid genre, Return to PopoloCrois somewhat unevenly splits your time between tactical turn - based combat and Story of Seasons elements that will see you harvest crops, swing a net at bugs, and tend livestock.

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.

«It takes time, energy and money to harvest crops from a field, and if crops are severely enough damaged, then farmers may choose not to harvest at all,» Lesk said.

But I find it hard to conceive how they would work on a commercial level, where you need to have an efficient system for harvesting marketable crops at roughly the same time.

People who travel from home, working a few weeks at a time at various locations harvesting seasonal crops, are custom harvesters.