Sentences with phrase «farmers planting crops»

A feature of the warming period in the late 1980s and 1990s was farmers planting crops earlier.

This remote and rarely visited region offers the trekker an insider's view into traditional Andean life — a timeless world where farmers plant their crops on the lands their ancestors tended and watch over herds of llama and alpaca beneath the sacred snow - covered peaks they worshipped as gods.

Not exact matches

There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn and soybeans because they make can make the most money through those crops, in large part because of their role as animal feed that supports humans» massive appetite for meat.

In the U.S., Lawson says high wheat prices have sparked a vicious cycle that is skewing farmers» planting decisions, and driving prices on other crops higher, too.

Farmers rely on Nesbitt and his colleagues» work to measure and model global rainfall to decide how to plant and water their crops.

That doesn't include the ancillary businesses that supply goods and services to the industry, such as Agrana Fruit, which opened a $ 50 million plant in Lysander in 2014 and sources crops from local fruit farmers.

At the same time, projections for total planted US corn and soy acreage was reduced as farmers shifted to other crops; they are, however, expected to plant more soybeans than corn for the first time in 35 years.5 Brazilian corn acres also showed a downward bias.

Futures were originally created to help farmers hedge against changes in the prices of their crops between when they were planted and sold.

Demand for distillate is going to stay strong as this stupid winter weather hangs on and farmers start to get their tiller, planters and tractors filled up as they prepare to plant our nation's crop.

Late in the week, Statistics Canada released planting plans by farmers for the 2018 crops.

My father was a small crop farmer in that he grew many various plants within a small field.

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.

Whenever the Spanish explored new territories, they always included farmers that could be established along the way to plant crops that would insure there would be food available when they returned along the routes.

That's when Dr. Michael Bartolo, an extension vegetable crops specialist and associate professor at Colorado State University's Arkansas Valley Research Center, obtained a plant of a strain of Pueblo chile from his uncle, Harry Mosco, a farmer on the Saint Charles Mesa, east of Pueblo.

After thoroughly reviewing existing literature on the pros and cons of crop diversification, and interviewing local experts, it became clear that some Ghanaian cocoa farmers do diversify — most commonly in the form of shade crops or intercrops at the early stages of the cocoa plant's life — but the approach is uncoordinated and haphazard.

California dairy farmers switching to almond crops, and even a 92 - year - old dairy plant that was forced to close due to a decline in sales recently reopened as a plant - based milk company.

To continue building my capacity in the field of plant pathology so I can provide farmers with practical scientific solutions to reducing in - crop and post-harvest losses, thereby contributing to sustainable food production, increased financial stability and food security.

It is about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.

As a trainee plant pathologist, I could offer basic crop health and plant disease diagnostic support to small holder farmers in developing countries.

Dr Washington Otieno, executive of the Plantwise programme at CABI explained how they provide «plant doctors» to small holder farmers to reduce crop losses and prevent further spread of disease.

Organic farmers increase organic matter in soil through the use of cover crops, compost and biologically based soil amendments, producing healthy disease and insect resistant plants.

While our organization has branched out (pun intended) since its founding 30 years ago to protect temperate forests (such as those in the Appalachian mountains), and tropical forests in Africa and Asia, our first efforts were focused on the rainforests of Latin America, working with farmers and foresters there to improve their lives and livelihoods so they wouldn't have to clear trees to plant crops or sell timber.

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

The two farmers who decided to start growing teff, Fraser McNaul and his father, Shane McNaul, planted two varieties of the crop, brown and ivory teff.

These farmers select seed for planting from their own crops since sorghum is an open pollinated plant.

A West Australian farmer being sued for allowing his genetically modified canola to allegedly contaminate his neighbour's organic land was «reckless» in how he planted and harvested his crop, a court has been told.

Agroforestry practices provide cocoa farmers with resilience to climate change by promoting the planting of income generating hardwoods and other crops among cacao tress well as conservation of forests for both shade and soil health.

«We know farmers need to feel secure that there's a market for what they grow, and I'm saying, please plant these crops, there is a demand.»

As Colombia rebuilds after more than 50 years of civil war, farmers are under pressure to stop growing illegal drug crops and instead plant fruits and vegetables.

Think of a farmer who plough his or her land and plants crops without fertiliser and all the necessary inputs of production yet expects to harvest more than those who have met the necessary inputs of maximum production... wenger out!

Reports indicate that the planting for food and jobs campaign, which registered over two hundred thousand (200,000) farmers in the 2017 crop season, has been a big success.

For area farmers, an extended fall allowed many to recoup crops planted late following a wet spring and dry summer.

Lane and his colleagues found that both farmers who have been involved in GM crop trials and those who have not, regard GM as a simple extension of previous plant breeding techniques, such as those which have produced today's established crop types.

He said the department warned the uptown farmer to stop planting last summer when they discovered the first crop.

At issue is the right of the nomadic herdsmen to graze their cattle, which invariably infringes on the right of the farmers to plant and harvest their crops.

Farmers spray their crops with fungicides to control these plant diseases, but their effectiveness is limited as disease pathogens mutate to become insensitive to the fungicides.

That could be a problem for many farmers in the thick of planting crops.

During a cold snap in 2010, farmers in the state strawberry capital of Plant City pumped millions of gallons of underground water onto their crops to save them — but ended up causing dozens of sinkholes.

Farmers in Russia will change the time of wheat planting [for example], and may switch to a different crop if the hot summer of today becomes the norm of the future.»

In this image, a local farmer drives harvested energy crops to the bioenergy plant, where they will be stored under large tarps until ready for processing.

Companies say the innovation is needed to safeguard their investments in improved plant varieties, but an array of critics contends that it will further marginalize the world's poorest farmers and erode crop biodiversity.

There's another crucial difference from California: in Winfree's study area most farmers plant a variety of crops rather than monocultures.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

Three of the five cases are in the United States, where farmers have planted about half of the world's Bt crop acreage.

Moreover, farmers may be able to adapt to many of the changes by altering planting times or the crops they grow, says plant physiologist Jerry Hatfield of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service in Ames, Iowa.

The report concluded the mustard was safe and nutritious, and GEAC chair Amita Prasad in New Delhi says the commission unanimously agreed on 11 May to recommend allowing farmers to plant the crop for the next 4 years.

Most conventional farmers only plant one crop per field or plot.

Now, geneticists have developed a potential boon for the health of African subsistence farmers who rely on the crop: transgenic plants with roots practically free of cyanide - forming chemicals.

For example, crops could be genetically engineered to give farmers a visual warning of problems such as drought stress, before the plants suffer obvious physical symptoms.

But in 2012, the opposite was true: abundant rains meant that the farmers who planted in basins were flooded out, but other farmers had a bumper crop.