Sentences with phrase «grown irrigated»

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Along Colorado's Front Range, fourth - generation farmer Kent Peppler said he is fallowing some of his corn fields this year because he can't afford to irrigate the land for the full growing season, in part because deep - pocketed energy companies have driven up the price of water.

For hemp grown on irrigated land, the estimated yield was 1,679 lbs / acre at $ 0.74 per pound, earning $ 1,322 CDN / acre in gross returns; 64 % higher compared to dryland.

Our method of growing food is also exhausting our aquifers and salting our irrigated lands.

In the past century success in feeding a growing population depended in large part on doubling cropland and a five-fold increase in irrigated land.

I brought back seeds from my trip to Oaxaca and grew out «Chile de Agua», which apparently means «irrigated chile,» and it was an erect pod about 4 inches long and one inch wide.

In those experiments, growers had planted the chiltepíns in rows under artificial shade and had irrigated them as if they were growing Jalapeños.

The PSTOL1 gene is also being tested in rice varieties for the more productive irrigated rice - growing areas and initial results show that the plants grow a better root system and have higher production too.

Frances: Yes, as long as they are well irrigated, you can grow peppers in the desert.

The plants grow along the ridges and are irrigated from the furrows.

All commercially grown Hass and Lamb - Hass avocados are insurable if the crop is irrigated and the crop has reached the sixth growing season or has produced at least 2,000 pounds of avocados per acre in one of the three most recent crop years.

The second objective was to use the evaluated modules to assess the long - term effects of growing winter wheat as a cover crop on water balances and seed cotton yield under irrigated and dryland conditions, Ale said.

On either side lie lush green polygons — the irrigated fields of the Mexicali valley just south of the US border, where tomatoes, cucumbers and onions grow in what should be a desert.

A University of Oklahoma Civil Engineering and Environmental Science Professor Robert Nairn and his co-authors have conducted a collaborative study that suggests exposure to trace metals from potatoes grown in soil irrigated with waters from the Potosi mining region in Bolivia, home to the world's largest silver deposit, may put residents at risk of non-cancer health illnesses.

Spaniards are also questioning the country's drive to grow more and more irrigated crops.

In the Northwest, water shortages to the Great Basin region will lead to large reductions in irrigated forage, such as hay, grasses, and other crops grown to feed livestock.

«In order to grow enough corn, we've been pushing to the fringes, into land that needs extensive irrigating,» says Otto Doering, professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University.

For example, the large amount of water used to grow apples or irrigate rice or roast coffee is also wasted if the end - product is lost along the way.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced this week that it had traced the responsible bacterial strain, Salmonella Saintpaul, to a serrano pepper grown on a Mexican farm that irrigated its fields with water contaminated by the bug.

Farmers that use irrigated water for that and don't have supplies won't grow the crops, he said, and there might not be replacement supplies that are certified organic.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it traced the responsible bacterial strain — Salmonella Saintpaul — to a Serrano pepper grown on a Mexican farm that irrigated its fields with water contaminated with it.

Borlaug also found that when he applied fertiliser and irrigated the tall spindly Mexican wheat varieties, the heads grew satisfyingly fatter but the top - heavy plants now toppled over.

Wheat yields were low and static, with a national average yield of 750 kilos per hectare, even though most of the wheat was grown on irrigated land.

Dry farmed plants grow up to 50 ft deeper than irrigated plants, which allows the crop to grow in nutrient - rich soil in an environmentally friendly way.

We have developed waste treatment systems which enable us to irrigate parts of the Estate and maintain a lush growing environment all year round.

This is the area that was terraced and irrigated by the Inca to grow crops like corn, quinoa, and potatoes.

The way we live is reliant on agriculture, and in the United States much of the food that comes to our table is grown in California, and in order to grow that food the land must be irrigated.

Grass only grows in Geraldton (and everywhere within 1,000 kilometers) when it is irrigated year round.

The USDA / NASS studies tracked harvested acres without differentiating between irrigated and non-irrigated acreage; it gathered data on planted vs. harvested acres for some crops but not others; it did not account for systems in which «baby vegetable» crops (usually organic) are grown in short rotations on the same plot (such as spinach, lettuce, and carrots) and thus have lower yields; and it omitted some data that would have revealed too much information about individual farmers, in cases where very few growers produce a particular crop.

One of these is to exploit the appetite of green things for carbon dioxide: for instance, to irrigate the Australian and Sahara deserts and grow forests that will soak up more carbon.

As she grew older, more and more land was irrigated, and summertime afternoon thunderstorms began to be commonplace.

It seems true that newly - irrigated areas will mostly have been areas which either weren't grown on before, or had less lush crops (i.e. less sunlight absorption).

There are decisions to make about what we grow and how we irrigate.

Ben Cook: The point I always try to make is that there are already lots of inefficiencies in the way that we use water, in the way we irrigate, the types of crops we grow, how much water we waste.

«Researchers believe the Vikings probably grew barley in small quantities, compared with the large, billowing cornfields we have today, and sowed barley in small enclosures that were no bigger than their ability to irrigate the corn and keep hungry animals out.»

a change in the environment around the station (for example a tree grows, a structure is built, a lawn is irrigated); or

a change in the environment around the station (for example, a tree grows, a structure is built, a lawn is irrigated)

Can we realize that the «sacrifice» of giving up meat so that our starving brothers and sisters may be fed, so that farmers» lands may be irrigated, so that trees may continue to grow in the Amazon, so that the rate of global warming and environmental devastation may be checked, so that Mother Earth may continue to have fertile land for growing crops, may we realize that this is a natural choice to be made and not an excruciating sacrifice?

Countering the view that global trade is necessarily harsh on the environment, the researchers contended: «A market shift from irrigated, chemical input - intensive growing areas such as the U.S. and China toward rain - fed and less intensive areas in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Brazil and India would bring significant net environmental gains.»

Grown into a stacking plastic unit structure, the soil system is irrigated in the back.

You irrigate the planter by adding water in the circular openings in the top corners and the water trickles down through the growing medium.