Sentences with phrase «crops after the harvest»

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But increasingly farmers also sell biomass — the residue left over after crops like corn and wheat are harvested — to companies developing fuel from organic material.

To save his crop the owner must let grain and weeds grow together and have his servants sort them out after the harvest.

After five years of research and development (meanwhile experiencing an incredible amount of industrial espionage concerning their growing methods) they harvested their first test crop, growing plants for their specially - designed recirculating hydroponics system.

Instead of plowing, farmers leave crop residue on fields after the harvest where it acts as a mulch to protect soil from erosion and a source of organic matter.

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

The other, a wild relative of sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum), provides hardiness to harsh environments and the ability to ratoon or produce additional profitable crops from re-growth after harvest.

To make that happen, we need freezer space so that local growers can harvest their crop, store it at the market, and then reap their profits long after the harvest season is over.»

Keeping organic matter, or the remains left behind after crops and other plants die or are harvested, in the soil leads to two important benefits.

Hand - picked fruits such as strawberries begin to decay immediately after being harvested, and the market value of the crop may decline by as much as 10 percent per hour if the harvested produce sits in the hot sun waiting to be transported to refrigerated storage, Sowers said.

After each harvest, the schools used proceeds from crop sales to fund healthier lunches.

«But if you go through a field of grass after it's been mowed or a crop field after harvesting, you'll smell these compounds.»

But such simple steps as leaving slash — the plant waste left over after crop production — on fields after harvests, so it could be incorporated into the soil, could reintroduce between 0.4 and 1.1 gigatons of carbon annually to soil, the study says.

«Farmers will need to protect the soil from wind erosion during the fallow phase after harvest of oilseed crops,» says Sharratt.

In addition to curtailing plastics, using these crops» waste improves air quality, too: Instead of being burned after harvest, they are put to good use.

Growers are now spraying wheat and other crops not only during the growing season, but also after harvest, to keep pests out!

After reading new research about the issue of «crop desiccation» done by using glyphosate on wheat and other grains just prior to harvest, Tropical Traditions decided to first test some commercial wheat products with wheat grown in Montana, North Dakota, and Canada.

Most crops are colonized after harvest and during storage, but since Aspergillus is found in the soil (among other places) and peanuts grow underground, peanut colonization often occurs well before harvest.

After harvesting is done, the spears grow into ferns, which produce red berries and the food and nutrients necessary for a healthy and productive crop the next season.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

After one harvest, he got into an argument with white operators of a weigh station about the size of his crop.

You do need to consider how long crops take to mature, whether they continue to grow after harvesting or whether you need to buy more seeds, and what season they can be grown in, because as soon as the season shifts your current crops will die off if they can't handle the new weather.

After watering that crop every day, it becomes ready to harvest and is in turned used to accomplish a multitude of goals.

Aimed at a new generation of grow - your - own urban gardeners, the packets feature easy - to - follow advice on how to sow seeds and look after crops, along with tips on harvesting, eating and storing produce.

After the first crop is harvested, the fuel could be used to cultivate and transport the next crop.

These environmentally friendly alternative income sources help local families who often run short of money after the annual coffee harvest or have seen decreasing crop yields due to changing weather patterns.

To produce enough corn - based ethanol to meet current U.S. demand for automotive gasoline, we would need to nearly double the amount of land used for harvested crops, plant all of it in corn, year after year, and not eat any of it.»

With an annual output of 700 million tons of crop stalk, i.e. non-food parts of crops that are typically discarded after crop harvest, China is eyeing its cultivation of rice, wheat, corn and other crops as a replenishable source of stalk, which can be fermented through anaerobic digestion to produce biogas.

The rest is caused by coal burning, the burning of firewood and cow dung cakes for fuel and cooking, and crop fields after harvest.

Field trials in Amazonia using charcoal with compost or chicken manure find that crop yields decline after the third or fourth harvest.