Sentences with phrase «first field of wheat»

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16:10, 16) or pentecost (so named because it came to be celebrated fifty days after the feast of unleavened bread) or the first fruits of wheat harvest (also 34:22) is by whatever name the celebration of the first harvest of the fields, ready in Palestine in April.

The Swiss Federal Court has put a preliminary halt to a field trial of genetically modified wheat that would have been Switzerland's first field trial of a GM crop.

In a unique study set - up, the scientists first compared simulation results from a large ensemble of wheat crop growth models with experimental data, including artificial heating experiments and multi-locational field trials.

For the first time, a team has created a salt - tolerant strain of wheat that raises yields on salt - damaged fields under real growing conditions.

The first year of the trial, labelled by journalists as «the whiffy wheat» trial, caused significant public attention when Take the Flour Back was formed to campaign against the field trial and held a protest at the site.

«They planted the grains first — corn, wheat, barley, oats, and rye — along with a field of flax, the plant from which linen thread and cloth are made,» King explains.

At first blush these dense oil paintings with owls, raccoons, deer, hummingbirds, wheat fields — seem remarkably American and indeed Newsom, long in New York, comes from the heartland of middle America.

Phillips acquired a number of exceptional masterpieces including: Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880 — 81) by Renoir; The Repentant St. Peter (c. 1600 — 5) by El Greco (the first passionate expressionist); St. Peter Repentant (1823) by Goya (the bridge between the Old Masters and moderns such as Cezanne); Portrait of Paganini (1832) by Eugene Delacroix; The Uprising (1848) by Honore Daumier; Mont Sainte - Victoire with Large Pine (1886 - 7) by Cezanne; Wheat Field at Auvers with House (1890) by Van Gogh; Portrait of Elena Pavlowski (1917) by Modigliani; and the large - scale still - life called The Round Table (1929) by Georges Braque.