Sentences with phrase «grain harvest came»

From the beginning of agriculture until the mid-twentieth century, growth in the world grain harvest came almost entirely from expanding the cultivated area.

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«Then at the end of the season — the harvest — you know how much grain comes from each part of the field.

(2) There is division of labor, defined relative to work: the one gives birth, the other tills, (3) There is the coming of the arts and crafts: no more just picking fruit and gathering nuts, but agriculture — the artful cultivation of the soil, the harvesting of grain, its transformation into flour, the making of bread, and, eventually, also astronomy (to know the seasons and to plan for sowing), metallurgy (to make the tools), the institution of property (to secure the fruits of one's labor), and religious sacrifices (to placate the powers above and to encourage rain).

29But when the grain is ripe, at once he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.»

Before modern agriculture came along, grains were left on the stalk in the field until they sprouted, then they were harvested.

They don't spare a single expense when it comes to sourcing the best ingredients — like the grain harvested from a region up north known as the French Bread Basket.

So they came up with the idea to kill the crop (with glyphosate) one to two weeks before harvest to accelerate the drying down of the grain,» he said.

It was religious, conservative, smelled constantly of wheat / grain / harvest dust, but there was also an interstate, so we at least had a steady stream of people coming in and out.

If world grain demand continues to grow during this coming year at the 16 - million - ton - per - year pace of the last decade, then the 2002 harvest will have to jump by 70 million tons to avoid a further drawdown in stocks.

Since the mid-twentieth century, the world grain harvest has nearly quadrupled, with most of this growth coming from the tripling of the grain yield per acre.

By early 2008 Lowe had signed up 180 members who each had committed $ 100 to receive 100 pounds of grain come harvest.

Since expanding irrigation helped triple the world grain harvest from 1950 to 2000, it comes as no surprise that water losses can shrink harvests.