Sentences with phrase «irrigate without»

Yet, many people can reduce the amount of water they use to irrigate without sacrificing a nice lawn.

Yet, many people can reduce the amount of water they use to irrigate without sacrificing a nice lawn, she said.

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We sell grass - fed beef, which we raise on irrigated pasture without the use of antibiotics, hormones, supplements, insecticides or chemical fertilization.

Without better crop varieties or other agricultural technology improvements, irrigated wheat yields, for example, will fall at least 20 percent by 2050 as a result of global warming, and south Asia as well as parts of sub-Saharan Africa will face the worst effects.

The two DSSAT crop modules were evaluated using measured data on soil water and crop yield from four treatments: irrigated cotton without a cover crop, irrigated cotton with winter wheat as a cover crop, dryland cotton without a cover crop, and dryland cotton with a winter wheat cover crop at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research Station at Chillicothe from 2011 to 2015.

«Curlews can't survive in the Central Valley without irrigated agriculture, given the loss of most of their historic shallow - water habitats in summer and fall,» says Dave Shuford, Point Blue ecologist and lead author of the publication.

Without rain to irrigate croplands, growers repeatedly turn to underground aquifers, but the overpumping has taken a toll, causing water tables to drop dramatically.

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.

Similarly, the membrane below the irrigated roof might fluctuate an average of only 7 or 8ºF during a 24 hour period, while the same green roof without irrigation may fluctuate ± 20 degrees.

Without water productivity gains, South Asia would need 57 % more water for irrigated agriculture and East Asia 70 % more.

SELECTED ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Mowed and irrigated pastures without supervision which led to 30 % increase in produce • Sprayed acres of crops of bean and cotton with fertilizers and pesticides single handedly enhancing quality of the produce by 50 % • Planned and implemented changes in the existing barn house setting and interior which were highly commended • Revealed exemplary performance in grooming race horses and earned second prize for the same in annual horse exhibition • Stocked and labeled shelves with new equipment and worked for extra hours during staff shortage