Sentences with phrase «farmers leave their fields»

More carbon stays in the soil when farmers leave their fields alone between harvesting and planting.

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In October, when hay season ends, Stinger employees drive machines to energy companies, national labs, or universities doing alternative fuel projects and help the farmers that supply them bale, stack, and haul residue left in their fields.

It instructed farmers to leave a corner of their fields unharvested for the poor to glean.

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.

• A Steuben County sheep farmer and two others last year for allegedly poisoning two bald eagles and a red - tailed hawk; • A Niagara County farmer who inadvertently killed three juvenile bald eagles in 2014 by putting poisoned meat on his farm in an effort to kill coyotes; • And a farmer in Allegany County who several years ago applied left - over pesticide to a corn field to «use up the product,» killing a pair of bald eagles and nearly three dozen geese.

In the Upper Missouri River Basin, that could mean conscripting fields set aside as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), which pays farmers to leave fields fallow for environmental benefits.

The BTO blames the set - aside scheme, in which farmers are paid to leave fields fallow to cut the production of cereals.

Many plants intercept too much light in their topmost leaves and too little in lower leaves; this probably allows them to outcompete their neighbors, but in a farmer's field such competition is counterproductive, Long said.

But when the uncertainty and fear of new was mitigated, the government slowly started withdrawing support and the farmers were left to deal with poor soil, lost seeds and declining diversity in the field, and dependency on pesticides and fertilisers.

The farms go right down to the border, and the farmers leave their tractors out in the fields at night.»

Every morning and afternoon, local villagers leave offerings at a century - old temple, while farmers work the bucolic rice fields that form Mandapa's core.

Added feature includes witnessing various cultural highlights, such as local rice farmers tending their fields, visits to an authentic Balinese home where you can learn more about the agrarian ways of life, such as coconut oil processing, to making Balinese flower tray offerings and a variety of woven coconut leaf crafts.

Wheat farmer Tom Giesel (left), Land Institute founder Wes Jackson (center) and Tom Friedman discuss sustainable agriculture in the fields of Kansas.

On the other side of the world, in Niger, farmers faced with severe drought and desertification in the 1980s began leaving some emerging acacia tree seedlings in their fields as they prepared the land for crops.

The great Mississipian culture of North America left behind a vast landscape of burials in North America, many others have been ignored as farmers plowed the grave sties under their farm fields, and more remain to be discovered.

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.

It now looks as though their optimism may have been misguided: local authorities across China are now sounding the alarms and ordering farmers and growers to leave so that their fields can be replanted with native grasses.

All that's left afterwards is a high - quality organic fertiliser for the farmer's fields that's not at all smelly and totally free of methane (one of the most harmful greenhouse gasses).