Sentences with phrase «early season crops»

For this reason, it's best to construct your low tunnel a few weeks before you plan on using it (or put it up in the fall, so it's already in place when you want to grow early season crops.)

Not exact matches

Untreated manure of all types has the potential to pose a food safety risk, and farmers, organic and conventional alike, have traditionally mitigated this risk by applying manure to their fields early in the season before they have planted the crop.

I'm not yet backing off my early season prediction for a «normal to normal - minus» 2018 crop... similar or less than 2017.

We have seen buyers be more hesitant the last 4 weeks and unwilling to chase anything but Cabernet Sauvignon.No one knows how big the 2014 crop will end being at the end of the season — but the potential for another above normal crop has caused a slow in the early season activity.

It is not so early as some of the larger sorts; but in favorable seasons will perfect a sufficient portion of its crop in the open ground, both for seed and pickling.

Every single summer the old adage that «Arsenal are three signings from winning the title» crops up, and this season it has come up a little earlier thanks to the Arsenal legend Ray Parlour.

Also, try to grow in two seasons — use your space for early crops and then when they are done, reuse the space for later crops.

I had hoped to visit that farm earlier in the season, but then a bad hail storm apparently wiped out their early crop.

These chemicals normally kill crops as well as weed, so resistant crops would permit farmers to ignore weeds growing among their crops early in the season, as they can use an effective herbicide later in the year.

Earlier in 2016, the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) said it was optimistic it would achieve its targeted output for the 2015/2016 crop season with almost five months to the end of the crop season.

There is some evidence that trees are budding earlier than they used to in Finland, and growing seasons could be extended for agricultural crops.

The highest number of pesticides accumulated in the colonies early on, shortly after beekeepers placed colonies into early season flowering crops like apples and blueberries.

Seed treatments for row crops, such as corn, cotton or soybean, target early - season pests that are in the soil when the seed is planted.

An end goal, he says, is to predict early in the season how weeds will impede crop yields, so farmers can make better decisions on how to manage them.

According to David Mortensen, professor of weed and applied plant ecology, Penn State, synthetic - auxin herbicides are usually used early in the growing season, but with the new transgenic crop varieties coming on the market, these herbicides will be used later when temperatures are warmer and more plant species are leafed out.

«Early - killed rye reduced weed density by 20 percent and suppressed early - season weed growth 85 percent,» says Marty Williams, an ecologist with the Department of Crop Sciences at U of I and the USDA Agricultural Research SerEarly - killed rye reduced weed density by 20 percent and suppressed early - season weed growth 85 percent,» says Marty Williams, an ecologist with the Department of Crop Sciences at U of I and the USDA Agricultural Research Serearly - season weed growth 85 percent,» says Marty Williams, an ecologist with the Department of Crop Sciences at U of I and the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

If I had run into Piazza Sempione trousers one season earlier, I would have happily bought cropped or ankle length.

Late onset and early winter ending will reduce the length of growing season for crops which will complete their biological life quickly causing reduction in yields as plants will gain accelerated maturity without reaching proper height and size.

The Midwest growing season lengthened by almost two weeks since 1950, due in large part to earlier occurrence of the last spring freeze.16 This trend is expected to continue, 12,17 though the potential agricultural consequences are complex and vary by crop.

It is important to understand the relationship between climate change, earlier growing seasons and pollination to ensure food on the table and profitable crop yields.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

By that point in the summer, only 26 percent of the U.S. corn crop was in good shape, down from an estimated 77 percent early in the season.

On cold nights, turbulence stirs the lower atmosphere and keeps nighttime temperatures around the crops warmer, potentially warding off early fall frosts and extending the growing season.

In the early part of the winter, rice farmers in California's Central Valley flood their fields to help decompose the stubble left by the previous season's crop.

Carrots I'll plant a crop of carrots early in the season with my tomatoes before the tomatoes take off.

Would warmed nighttime temperatures allow them to plant the crop earlier in the season?