Sentences with phrase «fields of alfalfa»
Home is the Harper ranch / farm, a once - sizable hunk of land with the San Juan River dribbling through, giving just enough water to sustain fields of alfalfa and scraggly cattle.
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Perhaps an artist could paint one of the men who wintered their sheep in the alfalfa fields a few blocks from the new subdivision to which my family moved in 1960.
Our distinctively light - coloured honey, recognized as the whitest in the world, comes from the Peace River region's cool climate and abundant fields of wild clover and red alfalfa.
Herbicides are used on only 7 % of the alfalfa acreage in the country as «companion crops» in alfalfa fields are commonly utilized by dairy and beef producers for weed control and nutritional balance in livestock diets.
Old Highway 185 begins just south of Caballo, winds though the prime agricultural area of New Mexico and groves of pecans and fields of chiles, alfalfa, pecans, onions, and cotton and the towns of Arrey, Derry, Garfield, Salem, and Hatch, and finally ends up in Las Cruces.
In order to maintain the nutrition of his soils and continually grow high - quality food, Gerard rotates numerous crops through his fields, including barley, oats, yellow mustard, food peas for splitting, French green lentils, and alfalfa for fixing nitrogen and providing organic matter to the soil.
The place was a barren alfalfa field in the Nebraska hamlet of Raymond.
Silage can be made from many field crops, and special terms may be used depending on type (oatlage for oats, haylage for alfalfa — but see below for different UK use of the term haylage).
Obviously, threats of accountability don't mean much to a field of growing alfalfa.
The cool morning air was pungent with the scents of the freshly irrigated alfalfa fields, the dairy cows behind our house, and Mexican sage brush.
He stood far off — they had one hundred acres, some of it wooded, but mostly fields — and he seemed small in the tall alfalfa.
Other than a brief time (1963) spent in a small village in central Congo, she grew up «in the middle of an alfalfa field,» in the part of eastern Kentucky that lies... (more)
In the gathering dusk of a warm, humid summer Friday evening in northern Indiana, small groups of Amish - born girls between the ages of sixteen and nineteen walk along straight country lanes that border flat fields of high cornstalks and alfalfa, dotted here and there with neat, drab houses set back from the roads.
In another case, a pesticide maker, sales representative, alfalfa field owner, and aerial sprayer were all charged with violating the MBTA when several migratory birds died after application of a pesticide to an alfalfa field.
The soil dried enough on the valley floor to grow grass and alfalfa with a wheat field here and there (most of the dry crops were raised on hillsides and on top of the surrounding higher plains).