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